TweetThese are my links for October 30th: EDM Summit – Day 3 Begins » Smart (Enough) Systems, the blog – James blogged way more than I did at the Business Rules Forum/EDM Summit (this is his area of expertise, after all), and has several lists of links to the other bloggers at the conference.
TweetI’m squeezing in one last session before flying out: Kevin Chase, SVP of Implementation Services at ING, discussing how to use rules in a multi-client environment, specifically on the issues of reuse and reliability. I’ve done quite a bit of work implementing processes in multi-client environments — such as a mutual funds back-office outsourcing firm [...]
TweetKathy Long, who (like me) is more from the process side than the rules side, gave a breakout session on how process and rules can be combined, and particularly how to find the rules within processes. She stated that most of the improvements in business processes don’t come from improving the flow (the inputs and [...]
TweetThese are my links for October 29th: » LinkedIn Pay it Forward Day Taking it Personal: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but… my version of the truth. – Susan Scrupski with a wonderfully generous idea: a "pay it forward" day in LinkedIn, where you pick one of your contacts at random and write [...]
TweetPedram Abrari, founder and CTO of Corticon, did a breakout session on model-driven architecture, SOA, and the role that rules play in all of this. I’m also in the only room in conference center that’s close enough to the lobby to pick up the hotel wifi, and I found an electrical outlet, so I’m in [...]
TweetFor the first breakout this morning, I attended Gladys Lam’s session on organizing a business rule harvesting project, specifically on how to split up the tasks amongst team members. Gladys does a lot of this sort of work directly with customers, so she has a wealth of practical experience to back up her presentation. She [...]
TweetOpening the second conference day, James Taylor and Neil Raden gave a keynote about competing on decisions. First up was James, who started with a definition of what a decision is (and isn’t), speaking particularly about operation decisions that we often see in the context of automated business processes. He made a good point that [...]
TweetThese are my links for October 28th: Inside Architecture : The bizarre assumption of functional decomposition – Great post by Nick Malik on why it's necessary to "design multiple, competing, wildly creative solutions in software and then evaluate them, select one or two, and go after the problem again at a finer level of abstraction". [...]
TweetAll the usual suspects joined on a panel at the end of the day to discuss the vendor view of business rules: Pegasystems, InRule, Corticon, Fair Isaac ,ILOG (soon to be IBM) and Delta-R, moderated by John Rymer of Forrester. The focus was on what happening to the rules market, especially in light of the [...]
TweetI had fun with my presentation on mixing rules and process, and it was a good tweetup (meeting arranged via Twitter) opportunity: Mike Kavis sat in on the session, Miko Matsumura of Software AG caught up with me afterwards, and James Taylor even admitted to stepping in for the last few minutes. Mixing Rules [...]
TweetThese are my links for October 28th: The Enterprise Web 2.0 Blog: Free Enterprise Mashup Software by the Developer, for the Developer – JackBe offers their enterprise mashup software to developers for free. Also, click through the link to the screencast of a mashup created by someone at EMC for data center management using JackBe [...]
TweetI’m not the only one blogging from BRF: Paul Vincent of TIBCO posted here about yesterday’s workshops, and James Taylor is twittering and blogged this morning’s keynote session with a promise of more live blogging. Other bloggers here, add a comment with your URL.
TweetThe good news is that it’s a lovely sunny, breezy and cool day: perfect fall weather for Toronto. The bad news is that I’m in Orlando, and was hoping to wear shorts more than sweaters this week. However, I’m here to attend — and speak at — the Business Rules Forum, not sit by the [...]
TweetFor those of you in the conversation at last week’s after-conference drinks about HD digital over-the-air (OTA) antennae, and how my husband built one out of a salad spoon and tin foil, here’s the details (on his blog). And yes, for those of you who read his text, he really did make a working antenna [...]
TweetThese are my links for October 26th: ABC's Of BPM – Forbes.com – You know that BPM is going mainstream when Forbes writes about it. Via Wayne Snell at Lombardi. Your PDC2008 Bingo Card (Plus a Chance to Make Your Own) – OMG, we have to start making these for BPM conferences… Process for the [...]
TweetThese are my links for October 26th: YouTube – Lombardi Blueprint, the Google GWT Business App – A minute-and-a-half video of Lombardi's Blueprint. Would be much more useful at a higher video resolution, but it gives you the basic idea if you're unfamiliar with Blueprint. More vendors should push their marketing videos out to YouTube [...]
TweetThese are my links for October 24th: How to Get a Blogger to Promote Your Product – Stepcase Lifehack – Like the title says. Lots of good tips here (corporate PR should be reading this before contacting bloggers). Via My Name Is Kate.
TweetThese are my links for October 23rd: Toronto Girl Geek Dinners: Thanks to our Sponsor – theWHIR! – Girl Geek Dinner in Toronto next week, featuring Amber Mac; unfortunately, I'm out of town. Remember, you don't have to be a girl to go, but you do have to be invited by one.
TweetWhen I switched to the new Google-hosted version of FeedBurner (which soon everyone using FeedBurner will be forced to convert to), they screwed up my feed, causing my subscriptions to drop by about 20%. Since then, my numbers have come back to to around what they were — presumably through organic growth of the people [...]
TweetI ended up wrapped up in a discussion at the break that had me arrive late to the last session of the day; Steve Jones of Ultimus is going through many of the technical underpinnings of V8 for designers and developers, particularly those that are relevant to the people in the audience who will be [...]
