TweetIt’s been a quiet summer for travel – I haven’t been on a plane since June – but my fall travel schedule awaits: September 13-16 is BPM 2010, the 8th International Conference on Business Process Management, which is the academic BPM conference that I’ve attended in Germany and Italy the past two years. This year, [...]
TweetA bit early for this, but maybe you’re already starting to organize your fall calendar. The business process track that was at the Business Rules Forum last year has grown, and become its own Business Process Forum. I believe that we need a good independent BPM conference – the ones run by the large analysts [...]
TweetBill Craig, a consultant with Service Alberta, discussed their journey with process and rules to create agile, business-controlled automation for land titles (and, in the future, other service areas such as motor vehicle licensing) in the province of Alberta. They take an enterprise architecture approach, and like to show alignment and traceability through the different [...]
TweetI facilitated a breakfast session this morning discussing BPM in the cloud, which was a lot of fun, and now I’m in the keynote listening to James Taylor on the role of decision management in agile, smarter systems. Much of this is based on his book, Smart (Enough) Systems, which I reviewed shortly after its [...]
TweetTo finish off the second day of Business Rules Forum, Paul Vincent of TIBCO spoke about events and event-driven architecture as a useful way of dealing with business rules. TIBCO is best known for their messaging bus (although some of us know it more for the BPM side), and events are obviously one of the [...]
TweetSteve Zisk of Pegasystems discussed decision management with a perspective on the combination of BPMS and BRMS (as you might expect from someone from Pega, whose product is a BPMS built on a BRMS): considering where change occurs and has to be managed, how rules and process interact, and what types of rules belong in [...]
TweetEric Charpentier, an independent rules consultant who has also been blogging from BRF, gave a presentation on business rules governance and management. He makes a distinction between governance and management, although that is primarily in the level: governance deals with the higher-level issues of establishing leadership, organizational structures, communication and processes, whereas management is tied [...]
TweetSteve Hendrick of IDC gave the morning keynote with predictions for the next five years of business rules management systems. He sees BRMS as being at a crossroads, currently being used as passive decisioning systems with limited scope, but with changes coming in visibility, open source, decision management platforms and cloud services. He took a [...]
TweetThe title of Jim Sinur’s breakfast session this morning is based on the “lack of respect” that rules have as a key component in business processes: as he pointed out, it’s very difficult to explain to a business executive what business rules do and their value (something to which I can personally attest). I’ve been [...]
TweetRoger Burlton, who organized the BPM track here, gave a presentation this afternoon on process discovery techniques that fit well with Kathy Long’s previous presentation on process notations. He looked at different levels of BPM (and therefore of models): enterprise, business process, and implementation. Most of the BPM models done at the enterprise level are [...]
TweetThe pool at the Bellagio was a big draw, but I’ve kept on track for this afternoon’s presentations, starting with Kathy Long on process notations. She spoke about the necessity of documenting processes, as well as the levels to which documents should be documented. Documenting the current process should only be done down to a [...]
TweetAlthough social software and BPM is an underlying theme in a lot of the presentations that I give, today at the Business Rules Forum is the first time that I’ve been able to focus exclusively on that topic in a presentation for more than 3 years. Here’s the slides, and a list of the references [...]
TweetThe Business Rules Forum has started here in Las Vegas, and I’m here all week giving a presentation in the BPM track, facilitating a workshop and sitting on a panel. James Taylor and Eric Charpentier are also here presenting and blogging, with a focus more purely on rules and decision management; you will want to [...]
TweetI’ve been invited to speak at the Business Rules Forum, which is taking place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas on November 1-5. I’m actually doing two speaking gigs there: A presentation on BPM, collaboration and social networking, which I’ve been presenting on for a few years and has lately become a hot topic of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
