by David McCoy | September 29, 2008 | Submit a Comment
Industrial disdain is my pessimistic play-on-words, highlighting the dark side of industrial design. Simply, industrial disdain is when the designers are not required to use that which they design. The design may result in, say, a government building, an inexpensive car, or a new office chair. The design is developed by a disinterested party who [...]
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by David McCoy | September 28, 2008 | Submit a Comment
Hey! Here’s a radical idea. What if all you CEOs and process owners acted like customers of your own products and services? Here’s how it works… You buy one of your own products and then call the customer service number listed on the package. Or, sign up for one of your company’s services and then [...]
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by David McCoy | September 27, 2008 | Submit a Comment
I am seeing a bit of movement around OMG’s SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules). Jim Sinur and I are meeting in Phoenix next week to discuss this and other standards that relate to business rules. This movement – within the domain of business rules – could be noise, or it could be [...]
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by David McCoy | September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
This is one of my favorite five-Euro words. Weltanschauung (always capitalized, as German nouns prefer) means "worldview.’ I learned the word back in 1987. I learned to spell it in 1989. When I am using words like Weltanschauung, it is best to give me a little room. I am likely pontificating. I studied Weltanschauung under [...]
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by David McCoy | September 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
Back in 1994 (or was it 1995), I saw the coolest software product I had ever seen up to that point in my life (including all the “wonderful” code that I had written). I was working for Deloitte and Touche and was in Montreal, presenting on this new phenomenon that was just starting to gain [...]
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by David McCoy | September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
JSR 94, RuleML, SBVR… there sure are a lot of business-rule-related standards and specifications out there. One specification (JSR 94) is fairly-well supported, but does it matter? And what about the others? Aren’t they a bit lonely and feeling neglected? Now consider that Gartner research has been warning of consolidation of the independent business rules market since late 2005, when RulesPower [...]
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by David McCoy | September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments
Stephen and Derek had somewhat of a book-release shindig at our Washington D.C. BPM Conference last week. It (the shindig, not the conference) was nothing fancy, but I understand they found new homes for all the books they had on hand. They even got me to buy one. Whether you are a BPMN fan or not, the book is now [...]
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