James Taylor's Decision Management

Business Rules are a failed abstraction - so what?

jtaylor — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:17:03 -0800

Jeff Attwood had a great post over on Coding Horror - All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions in which he discussed a Joel Spolsky article in which that states All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. At some level, of...

Business Process Management Presentation

jtaylor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:30:51 -0800

I am speaking on Making Processes Simpler, Smarter and More Agile with Decision Management at the Brainstorm conference in San Francisco next week. If you are a member you can check out the presentation or, better yet, register to attend...

Business rules for more effective development

jtaylor — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:48:43 -0800

Noam Tamarkin had a post recently on Efficient or Effective in software development in which he asked an important question - would you rather be more efficient or more effective when it came to developing software. Most would, like Noam,...

Don't forget the premier rules/decisioning event of 2009!

jtaylor — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:50:22 -0800

The International Business Rules Forum™ is the premier Conference dedicated to Business Rules, where the future of Business Rules, Decisioning, Compliance & Enterprise Design is taking shape! This year's event covers Business Rules, Decision Management, Business Process, Governance and Compliance....

Here's how to prevent mistakes in analytic projects with decision management

jtaylor — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:04:35 -0800

Robert Grossman had a nice post - Five Common Mistakes in Analytic Projects that made me think about the role of decision management in putting predictive analytics to work. Of Robert's 5 mistakes, 3 are directly addressed by decision management:There...

Lesson from GM: Decisions > Processes

jtaylor — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:08:53 -0800

Gary Comerford posted about Bex Huff's identification of How one bad business process doomed GM. Like Gary I appreciated the analysis. However, the title is all wrong. This is not about a business process - I am prepared to bet...

Nice report on the value of end-user developers

jtaylor — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:50:22 -0800

Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research recently wrote a nice piece called Deputize End-User Developers To Deliver Business Agility And Reduce Costs. The report is available from Forrester (for subscribers and for those who purchase it) but the summary is on...

Free webinar on bringing agility to mainframe systems

jtaylor — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:47:00 -0800

I am presenting, with Claye Greene of technologyblue, on the path to business agility and lower costs: Mainframes, SOA and Decision Management. The webinar is on June 2nd at 7:30am Pacific time (scheduled specifically for folks in Pittsburgh and vicinity)...

Using business rules to add decision transparency

jtaylor — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:31:38 -0800

Jim Sinur had a short post on The Power of Visibility with BPM Enabled Processes that made me think about another kind of visibility - visibility of decisions. One of the most powerful benefits of adopting business rules to manage...

Business Rules and Increasing Your Agility

jtaylor — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:51:13 -0800

Kirk Knoernschild had a great post on Application Platform Strategies Blog: Increasing Your Agility. I often blog about the power of business rules to improve agility (check out Decision Services and designing for change,Decision Management and software development - Agile...

Open Source Enterprise Business Rules Arrive

jtaylor — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:00:00 -0800

Today is the official release day for the new release of JBoss Enterprise BRMS - Drools 5.0 as was. Key features in this release are the repository/repository management tools and the new features that let business users and business analysts...

Beyond Predictive BI

jtaylor — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:43:29 -0800

David Linthicum's recent blog post Approaching Predictive BI made me want to reiterate some of my thinking around BI (on which I have a whole category) on my blog. I often talk about going "beyond BI" with decision management....

A new book on open source business rules

jtaylor — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:40:38 -0800

With Drools 5, JBoss and the open source community have delivered a true business rules management system for the first time. Using Drools, organizations can take control of the logic that drives their operational decisions using an open source platform....

Are there unwritten rules in your processes?

jtaylor — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:14:44 -0800

I got a newsletter over the weekend with a very pertinent comment: In our last newsletter, the Facilities Team announced that we were in negotiations for a facility. Unfortunately, undocumented rules in the city's building code were discovered which put...

Almost intellectual systems

jtaylor — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:46:06 -0800

Well it finally happened - Neil and I became internationally published authors! Check out this link: Почти интеллектуальные системы. Как получить конкурентные преимущества путем автоматизации принятия скрытых решений and what you see is a Russian version of Smart (Enough) Systems,...