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Use Agile for Areas Subject to Regulations?

by Ronald G. Ross on April 10, 2013

The Question: I asked for feedback on LinkedIn about using agile for target business problems focusing on an area subject to regulations, contract terms & conditions, agreement/deal provisions, business policies, etc. (Sound like your area?) The best reply I got back …
 
 
 
Guest Post by Sujatha Ramesh
Sr. Manager, Business Solutions at LearningMate
“In highly regulated environments, documented [...]

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Business Rule Manifesto FAQs Added to BRCommunity.com

by Ronald G. Ross on October 12, 2012

I am pleased to announce that a comprehensive set of authoritative FAQs about the Business Rules Manifesto has been added to BRcommunity.com: http://www.brcommunity.com/brm.php
The Manifesto is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year – and remains as powerful and as vibrant to today’s business challenges as ever. I will be covering a good many of its insights [...]

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My Three Basic Principles for Compliance

by Ronald G. Ross on October 5, 2012

1. It is always important where there’s any chance of ever having to say why.
2. It should always be channel-independent.
3. You should never put yourself in a position of having to reconstruct what rules were applied in making an evaluation or decision after-the-fact.
Compliance shouldn’t be the issue that it is – it doesn’t [...]

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‘Rules of Record’ … Why ‘System of Record’ Isn’t Enough

by Ronald G. Ross on October 2, 2012

Business computing today is characterized by a tangled web of interfaces and data movement from system to system, from source to sink. Knowing the official ‘systems of record’ is basic for resolving discrepancies and demonstrating compliance.
But that’s merely a start. What your business really needs today is to know the rules of record. A focus [...]

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Why Business Rules Will Always Remain in Structured Natural Language

by Ronald G. Ross on July 8, 2012

I was reading a fascinating article in The Economist about how robots, including military drones and driverless automobiles, increasingly need ethical guidance[1]. What does that have to do with business rules, you ask? Read on …
In the next five years, software systems will begin to appear that bypass programming going more or less straight from [...]

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What Role for Business Rules in *Enterprise Architecture*? One of the ‘Must-Knows’ of Business Rules …

by Ronald G. Ross on June 3, 2012

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Business Rules Manifesto[1]
http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/brmanifesto.htm
FAQ #6
Question: What role should business rules play in enterprise architecture?
Reverse-engineering business rules from legacy systems accurately is virtually impossible. The full, original business intent is simply lost. Reconstruction of business logic has been tried time and time again, often aided by automated tools, but measured [...]

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Follow-Up on ‘Harvesting Business Rules’: Business Rules vs. Expert Systems

by Ronald G. Ross on May 9, 2012

The guest post by Cecilia Pearce earlier this week (http://goo.gl/QL9zL) stirred up an unexpected controversy, one that deserves clarification – are business rules and expert systems the same? No! 
Business Rules 
Business rules are organizational rules created for the purpose of running day-to-day business operations. Business rules always have an original source in the form of some [...]

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The Fundamental Problem of Software Engineering is Not about Decisioning

by Ronald G. Ross on February 6, 2012

I am always very careful to talk about ‘business rules’, not ‘rules’. We define ‘business rule’ as a criterion used in business operations to guide behavior, shape judgments or make decisions. We have not perceived any poverty of guidance that fits that definition(!).
One reason we always say ‘business rules’ is because we make no attempt [...]

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Are BPM and EA a Perfect Match? … With Business Rules Far Better!

by Ronald G. Ross on September 1, 2011

@SergeThorn asks “Are Business Process Management and Business Architecture a perfect match?” http://goo.gl/kLYvs With business rules far better!
There is an important overlap of concerns between business rules and enterprise architecture. The overlap actually comes in two forms:
1. Operation-time. Here the issue is really rethinking compliance. I just blogged about this today: http://goo.gl/Gl9wT
2. Business-analysis-time. A business needs to know [...]

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Audit Trails and Tracing the Impact of Operational Errors … It’s Ultimately about Compliance and Business Rules

by Ronald G. Ross on September 1, 2011

Robin Bloor wrote  a very interesting piece about why business needs explicit audit trails for data: http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/robin-bloor/the-quality-of-data-is-not-strained/
Here’s the gist: ”… data has no explicit audit trails, so we lose information, some of which may be critical. This has the effect of hiding the record of and the impact of data errors.” He says all data should be time-stamped. I agree … [...]

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