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At the NY Brainstorm BPM Conference, we had an interesting panel on the relationship (current and changing) between "business process" and "business rules."  The answers were intriguing.  Before revealing the answers, it would be interesting to pose some of the questions to the bloggers to see if the panelists and bloggers agree.  So…

I was involved in an intriguing meeting yesterday where the major concern is the loss of traditional American jobs, today and for the forseeable future.  The discussion began with how many IT functions are disappearing from the American landscape and whether and when corresponding business functions will do the same.  What does this mean for American busines…

Narayan is asking about experience people have had with rules extraction using current tools.  I would like to share our experience in that regard and open it up to other experiences and insights. We have used various tools (Seec, Becubic, Relativity, as examples).  I have found that there are three very important (and therefore, challenging aspects, as foll…

Paul Vincent so nicely sent us to an OMG website (http://admin/omg.org/) where members understand the benefits of mining rules.  In that regard, what more should we know about such work, how to use it now, and what may be coming in the (near?) future? So, Paul and other OMG members, we are noticing more and more companies being interested in mining the rules from…

At least 50% of our BR projects involve excavating "rules" from existing legacy code.  This does not mean simply chopping existing code into smaller pieces and forward engineering them into new technology. It usually means trying to salvage the true business rules out of the code, correlating them to business vocabulary, and analyzing them for business…

One interesting trend that I have seen among BR projects is the more active involvement of business vs technical people.  The newest aspect of this involvement is that business (vs IT) people want to get started in identifying those business problems or opportunities that may be addressed by BR management and how they can plan and scope the feasibility of doing s…