http://www.column2.com/2007/11/iir-bpm-michael-zur-muehlen-on-integrating-business-processes-and-business-rules/ BPM, Enterprise 2.0 and technology trends in business. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:48:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.column2.com/2007/11/iir-bpm-michael-zur-muehlen-on-integrating-business-processes-and-business-rules/#comment-6837 BPM Research » Integrating Business Rules and Business Processes Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:06:39 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2007/11/iir-bpm-michael-zur-muehlen-on-integrating-business-processes-and-business-rules/#comment-6837 [...] So what is my point here? Whether you model these types of rules in your process modeling environment or not depends on your context, the availability of a separate rules management environment, and most critically, the frequency with which these rules change. There is no universally right or wrong way to manage the intersection of rules and processes. If your decision rules are as stable as your process, great, leave them in your BPM development environment. But if your business users want to manipulate the parameters, separate them from the process and handle them in a separate rules management environment. You’ll be glad you did. My presentation from the IIR conference is available on slideshare.net (see below). And for some well-informed outside opinion you can refer to Sandy Kemsley’s timely blog post on the presentation. [...] [...] So what is my point here? Whether you model these types of rules in your process modeling environment or not depends on your context, the availability of a separate rules management environment, and most critically, the frequency with which these rules change. There is no universally right or wrong way to manage the intersection of rules and processes. If your decision rules are as stable as your process, great, leave them in your BPM development environment. But if your business users want to manipulate the parameters, separate them from the process and handle them in a separate rules management environment. You’ll be glad you did. My presentation from the IIR conference is available on slideshare.net (see below). And for some well-informed outside opinion you can refer to Sandy Kemsley’s timely blog post on the presentation. [...]

]]> http://www.column2.com/2007/11/iir-bpm-michael-zur-muehlen-on-integrating-business-processes-and-business-rules/#comment-6647 More on integrating rules and processes | Smart (Enough) Systems, the blog Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:09:35 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2007/11/iir-bpm-michael-zur-muehlen-on-integrating-business-processes-and-business-rules/#comment-6647 [...] Kemsley posted about a presentation on this topic she saw at a recent conference by Michael zur Muehlen his [...] [...] Kemsley posted about a presentation on this topic she saw at a recent conference by Michael zur Muehlen his [...]

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