Hi Everyone, I am closing this blog down because YASU has been acquired by SAP. I have had a tremendous one year blogging here. My thanks to all those who have been following this blog, especially James from who I have learned quite a bit in the last 1 1/2 years of following his writings. I expect to [...]

Michael Krigsman reports some 40 IT Failures caused by Software Bugs from the Software QA Test Resource Center. What struck me immediately were the following Many of these failures were the result of “software taking bad Decisions”. It took a huge effort in some cases to rectify the total damage, to customers specifically It requires a [...]

Narayan Devanathan from Wipro has this short whitepaper on BRMS and Business Users. It is an interesting read on. He draws this conclusion in his paper Implementing a BPM/BRMS system is not merely an application change. It is a change in the way that an organization works. While it is not as complex as a re-engineering exercise [...]

I am happy to announce that that QuickRules.NET 3.1 Beta2 is now public. Here are some useful links QuickRules.NET Quick Tour (Video with Audio) Product Home Page: http://www.yasutech.com/qrdn What’s New: http://yasutech.com/qrdn/whatsnew.htm Visit http://downloads.yasutech.com to download the Product If you would like to have a go at the product, you can either download directly, or drop a comment.

Here is one interesting write-up on Requirements Modeling and Business Rules, http://www.regenerateweb.net/blog/node/19 Enjoy!

Jeroen asks, How maintainable is your Code? He goes on to identify 4 attributes of well written code. Modularity Consistency Simplicity & Conciseness Self-descriptiveness & Understandability I will go and add one more to this list, Independent Testability. That will determine if the module can be tested independently of the rest. I liked this topic because, one way to look at [...]

Stellan raises some good points about using business rules technologies in automating decisions.His questions are essentially these Rules are normally tied to the underlying data model and therefore difficult for business analysts to work with Tools make rules look too techie for business analysts to consume. Tools are very difficult to use Business Rules Tools come with a lot [...]

Scott Sehlhorst talks about Business Rules hidden in Software Requirements. This is something that I have written on before. You can read Business Rules & Software Requirements for a more detailed writeup on this subject. In short, here is what I think. Business Rules ARE NOT Requirements Software Requirements Must refer to Business Rules, and NEVER the [...]

Gary Sherman writes on SLA Monitoring, and I thought what a wonderful problem to solve using rule engines and business rules technology. Example of SLA’s (Extract from Sherman’s write-up) All cases must be responded to within 2 business hours All Urgent priority cases must be responded to within 1 hour regardless of business hours All cases must [...]

While I was reading Small Companies do not have time for SOA and Microsoft’s Just Do it SOA, I was wondering how Business Rules Technology so nicely fits in with this idea. Personally, I am normally careful about any big bang approaches to change, and the popular SOA philosophy seems to be propounding exactly that. I like the [...]