David McCoy

In an earlier post, I ask for the topics that you would like to see in a Business Rule Management tutorial.  Jim Sinur and I have now finished the tutorial and Jim will present it at our upcoming BPM conferences in London and San Diego. The presentation looks really nice!  To close the loop, I have included this outline below, showing the topics that will be discussed on each page of the tutorial.  Thanks for all your input left as comments on the blog or sent to us in private emails!  We did take it to heart in the content, talk track and notes pages.

Tutorial: Business Rule Management — The Misunderstood Partner to Process

David McCoy and Jim Sinur – Gartner

Outline

1. Opening slide on the proliferation of business rules and the wisdom of using BRM
2. Gartner Key Issues slide
3. Distinguishing business rules from business processes, and the challenges of managing implicit rules
4. Example of BRMS-to-application interaction showing segregation of responsibilities
5. A spectrum and guideline for selecting which business rules should be managed by BRM and which are likely overkill
6. Key BRM definitions and concepts
7. Business Process Management hype cycle showing rules topics and where they are on the cycle
8. Examination of BRM maturity and benefits
9. Three different kinds of business rule technologies and their primary use cases
10. Business rule market evolution overview
11. Business rule representation techniques and “value/complexity” tradeoffs
12. Business Rule Management System (BRMS) technology stack – what’s in it according to Gartner?
13. How BRM can address BPM process proliferation
14. BRM technology trade-offs – how much do you really need?
15. BRM roles and skills and how they overlap BPM
16. BRM and Agility: awareness, productivity, flexibility and adaptability
17. Key Takeaways
18. Recommendations