Resume reading, filtering and candidate selection for interviews will be one of the major tasks for any manager running a reasonably sized team.

Our recruitment manager, and his team must each be spending 2-3 hours each searching scanning resumes
I and the other managers spend some time thinking about our requirements, explaining them to our […]

Does Technology make Managers lazy?
Is SOA the Magic potion that business need to drink?

Both and neither, is what I would say.One interesting quote that the first post provides is this.
I once spoke with a consultant who told me about working with the British military. Years ago, if you were becoming an officer, you were sent […]

I was with one new customer the whole of last week helping them out with their first taste of Business Rules technology. I had to help them understand how they can use Business Rules in their application.
Business Rules Management Systems introduce a completely new paradigm into the software systems world in organizations that are new […]

James pointed out to a post on Decision Tables in Krzysztof’s blog in his comment, and I wanted to add my two cents.
Decision Tables, along with Flow Rules are the most business user friendly business rules formats available.
Most Business Analysts I have come across are most comfortable with Decision Tables, and Flows (Sequential rules in […]

I have been a long time believer in needing Business Rules Management as an essential component in enterprise HRMS.
I was visiting this large customer of ours last week who are trying to automate some of their HR decisions using QuickRules. This is a large company with 12,000 employees worldwide, and growing. They keep on acquiring […]

I was with a Customer the whole of last week. One of the problems they had was how to specify their allowance/bonus calculation rules. The rules are something like this.

For every country, provide a Patent allowance
For every country, provide a Performance allowance
For India and the UK, provide a Car allowance
For China, provide a Chinese New […]

Well, I am visiting some customers, and traveling in the US. So, expect to be back by 19th to the blogosphere !

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It is Business, stupid !
That is not my line , but indicated by Joe McKendrick from SOA in Action. He  says that the First Order of Business in SOA Planning is, Well, Business
I liked the way he ends his post,
The key factor here is that the business needs to be in the driver's seat […]

This is one interesting story told by StorefrontBacktalk last week.I discovered it only today. Here is the story gist in a few words from the post
A customer places a order for a Laptop through our eStore. The order was rejected due to the store not being able to verify his billing address.
When the customer pressed […]

I missed this great writeup on Why Workflow Sucks, by Jon Pyke. I am glad that I discovered it today.
Now, the problem is obvious. Things happen in this world based on expert judgment. But, I always am left with this strange feeling when I see Workflow & BPM proponents talk of […]