There was more discussion in the blogosphere about the James McGovern COBOL is Evil post - COBOL is not evil, but COBOL programmers are. Now I already posted a response to James’ post (Why don’t you replace COBOL with something useful - not Java) but this new post made me think. I should say that [...]

Next up was Chris Collard of Dell talking about building a decision engine. Chris had done an implementation at Dell Financial Services and was sharing some of his experience with replicating that at Dell. Chris talks about decision engines as full decomposed applications - data, process and logic all externalized. Chris’ central thesis is
Effective Decision [...]

Jeff Jonas wrote an interesting post - Custom Software Scope Changes (Not) - that reminded me of my ongoing battle to argue that rules are not requirements. Jeff argues that we take far too little time designing custom software before we start to build it. A summary quote from his post illustrates his point:
I am [...]

Paul Haley has done an amazingly thorough job walking through a business rule harvesting example over on his blog. If this is
something you either do for a living or are considering, read the post. Where Paul finds the time to write such long, detailed posts I will never know….

I saw this post on Better Projects and it reminded me of days spent writing a RAD methodology for Ernst and Young. RAD, or Rapid Application Development, uses prototyping and lots of short iterations to keep a development project on track. The post has a nice graphic showing the cycles within cycles used in the [...]

Mike, over at the requirements defined blog, had this post today: Dr. Changelove (or how I learned to quit worrying and love change). I used a similar title just over a year ago in an article on ebizQ called Business Rules Cafe (for those who don’t remember, Atomic Cafe was another satirical film about the [...]

Dave Wright and Scott Ambler have started a discussion about the book over on the Requirements Network - check out this topic (registration required) if you want to join in.

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain and I presented on Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software. Scott writes a great blog on requirements.
The slides are on slideshare here

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I reviewed one of the books we referenced, Use Cases: Requirements in Context
Enjoy.