How do Business Rules Technology fit into the SDLC Life Cycle? I have been talking about this recently in my team, here is what I have been thinking & talking about.
Before I begin, here is a model of a generic SDLC process.

Explanation is needed as to how Business Rules will fit into diferent stages […]

I was getting one of my developers today to read through some VB code that one of our sales guys wanted deciphered. The task was to read a VB class, extract the business rules, business terms out of that class, then model the rules it using QuickRules.NET.
I was watching how long it took for my […]

Edwin has this post on How to write a Program in 2 Steps . He suggests the following 2 simple steps to write a business program.

Design and implement the programming language which would be best for solving the problem.
Write the program in the language you’ve just implemented.

Now, that is a suggestion that will certainly […]

Nick Malik declares victory for Dependency Injection in the battle of Rules Engines vs. Dependency Injection. Well, not so fast, Nick.
Nick argues that rules like UI form validation rules, error handling rules, routing rules in a process are better handled in code using a Dependency Injection Pattern, and not using a rule engine. […]

Kenneth Down asks Should Business Rules be Technology Neutral? I respond by saying that Business Rules Must be at least Implementation Neutral.
Kenneth argues that business rules are best captured in the language of database tables, stored procedure descriptions, and the like.
He is perfectly right, when

No specs have been drawn out
It is upto the developers to […]

Joe Mckendrick asks Is EDA the ‘new’ SOA ?.I was thinking about what SOA is and what is EDA. Now this is what I think.
SOA >> A architectural model where systems are modeled as Service Providers and Service Consumers. Decoupling is provided for because the Service Providers and Service Consumers use the Service Definition […]

I have been discovering some old articles recently. Here is one where Bruce Silver says Don’t Bank on Business Process Reuse.
Why Business Rules are better than Code
Talking of Business Decisions and Business policies, Reuse is certainly possible and very much in demand. I have written earlier about why Business Rules are a better paradigm than […]

I discovered this nice blog the other day, Enterprise Architecture Management Rants by Alan Inglis. I saw his comment on outsourcing, based on this Deloitte report and wanted to add my comment on this subject.
Here are some of the points raised by the report.

70% cited cost savings as a key driver for outsourcing, but 38% […]

I was browsing through the Java Mobile Applications Website, then came across a 2004 Report on Emerging Business Applications in the Japanese Mobile Internet.
Pretty Interesting stuff. Integrating Mobile Applications into the work fabric unlocks many efficiencies, while also introducing some challenges.
Here are some of the uses of Mobile Technology that I have heard of.

Mobile Applications […]

Art Gillis writes the Bank Systems and Technology Blog. In one of his recent posts, he says that the biggest hindrance to growing any bank is the depersonalization of customers.

It is an open secret that many businesses do next to nothing with all the customer data that they collect. With growing volumes and unprecedented business […]