Gary Sherman writes on SLA Monitoring, and I thought what a wonderful problem to solve using rule engines and business rules technology.
Example of SLA’s (Extract from Sherman’s write-up)

All cases must be responded to within 2 business hours
All Urgent priority cases must be responded to within 1 hour regardless of business hours
All cases must […]

This is my final post in this series.In part 1, I introduced Decision Services, in part 2, I talked about the challenges in implementing Decision Services.
In this post, I will attempt to come up with a set of capabilities that you need to aim to have when using rule driven Decision Services
The SOA Life Cycle
Before […]

In this post, I will attempt to cover the implementation landscape including actors and roles, technologies and skill sets. I will attempt to identify the typical challenges that might arise when using rule driven Decision Services in an SOA.
A little Background
Lets take the example of a Pricing Service in a Loan Process. A Pricing Service […]

QuickRules.NET 3.1 Beta 1 is now officially Out!
The Product now has its own minisite with much more product information than before. The fun with web sites is that you can keep on updating them as frequently as you want and that is exactly what I expect to be doing.
The QuickRules.NET Product Mini-Site
http://www.yasutech.com/qrdn
Here are some quick […]

A perfectly valid question, and Karthik Hariharan asks this question and further discusses it here. Here is his argument in effect.
Development teams often have to write custom wrappers for their platform
Mapping English sentences to objects can often become a nightmare that requires a dedicated team of professionals whose sole purpose is to make sure […]

This is the second post in the Business Rules & the SDLC Series.I will try and explain how Business Rules Technologies will fit into the Application Design Process.
Design Goals & Business Rules
If you are designing a software system that will also automate Business Decisions, then what design goals should you be aiming for?
You should […]

This is the first post in the Business Rules and SDLC series. My purpose is to explain why Business Rules must not be treated as software requirements.
Introduction & Definition
So, what are what Software Requirements?.

Software Requirements provide a detailed description of what a software system should do.
Who owns such Requirements? Developers, of course
What will this description […]

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 […]