Tuesday | 11:25am - 12:25pm | Organizing & Deploying Business Rules Track
Room: Regency 2

Presentation

Best Practices in Rule Discovery and Analysis

SPEAKER(s):

Colleen McClintock Vice-President of Products, Sparkling Logic, Inc.

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ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Rule discovery and analysis are the most important and least understood of the phases in the development of a business rule application or service.   Join us to hear an overview of the rule discovery and analysis phases of a project, based on IBM's Agile Business Rule Development (ABRD) methodology, and learn about the experiences, challenges and best practices evolved based on TIAA-CREF's business rule projects.  

In this session you will learn:

• How ABRD differs from other methodologies and why an agile approach is well-suited for business rule applications
• Why rule discovery and analysis are critical to the success of your project
• How you can get started with rule discovery
• What activities are performed and what artifacts are created during rule discovery and analysis
• How to capture and document business rules and business vocabulary
• Best practices  based on TIAA-CREF’s business rule projects



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

Colleen McClintock is Vice-President of Products at Sparkling Logic.  She has worked in the BRMS/Decision Management space since the early 90’s.  Colleen led ILOG’s (acquired by (IBM) Product Marketing and Management team, evolving JRules to the market-leading BRMS.  At IBM Colleen continued to work in Decision Management and BPM Product Management, focusing on business analyst and business user empowerment and leading a project with IBM Research on next-generation decision management technologies.

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