By: Art Moore, Principle Business Rule Consultant, Knowledge Partners Inc.
The words “business governance of business rules” is an extremely important, if not explosive, topic. It alludes to turning over the keys of the business back to the business itself. Yet, doing so is an organizationally complex issue.
A reasonable goal is to provide an easy way for business (versus technical) people to write or change the rules of the business, such that doing so maximizes the understanding of the rules, while minimizing the pain (and rigor) of writing them. If writing them properly is too difficult, they won’t do it.
So, it is advantageous to start with a