Chapter 4: Changing the Game: BPM and BDM

Because business logic is such an important but overlooked business asset, the Decision Model delivers significant value to all activities that involve important business decisions. Therefore, the Decision Model's impact is significantly wide-spanning business and IT projects and strategic to operational business issues. This chapter presents insights...

The generic term "business rule" has been used extensively in a plethora of contexts, models, and domains. Everyone agrees on its importance. At the very core, the purpose of business rules is to capture what should or should not be allowed in a business enterprise.

Businesses can be viewed as an aggregation of rules and all activities in the business and processes as steps undertaken to carry...

The purpose of this article is to provide project managers and business analysts an example of a hybrid system development life cycle (i.e., combination of agile and waterfall). Much discussion has transpired on the virtues of agile and waterfall approaches. Successes and failures can be claimed on both sides. Depending on the conditions of the project, advantages of one approach can be cited...

As business decision and rule management initiatives grow and become more complex, there is growing consensus among practitioners and thought leaders about the importance of the rule repository in developing a scalable, sustainable business rule management capability. This session will provide an overview of business rule repositories and identify the three “must have” capabilities for...