by David McCoy | March 17, 2009 | 13 Comments
Today, my wife advanced another major step in her quest to be ordained as a Methodist minister. The amount of preparatory work for this big day was similar to what I have seen with consulting firm senior managers who are up for partner and with professors being considered for tenure – it’s that serious. Ordination [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
by David McCoy | February 27, 2009 | Submit a Comment
As a kid, I played a mean game of neighborhood softball. You know the story: 1960s to very early ’70s, red mud fields, wooden bats, marginally-stitched softballs, bases made out of left-over building material, neighborhood friends, neighborhood bullies, no uniforms, shoes optional. Yeah! You played it too? Do you remember how we determined which team [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
by David McCoy | February 20, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Here’s a provocative piece I wrote back in 2003, for our Unconventional Thinking blog. The Emergence of Real-Time Rule: Mind if We Plug in? We Fellows do a lot of Unconventional Thinking. At the time, this piece was considered pretty far-fetched, but I believed it 100% then and still do. Today, it almost seems like [...]
Category: Philosophy Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Technowishing Tags: David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | November 13, 2008 | Submit a Comment
We at Gartner talk about BPM’s focus on “continuous improvement.” We really like to talk about agility and rapid process change. So, what happens when your process change time is measured in years… or decades? I heard a presentation today where the speaker was describing the complexities of interstate resource negotiation. He said in this [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | October 29, 2008 | Submit a Comment
Oracle is buying another Business Rule Engine vendor. Surprised? If you’e a client of Gartner, you should have seen this coming. Jim Sinur is at the Business Rules Forum tonight and he will be speaking tomorrow. He’s working on the research angle which, of course, you will soon see on www.gartner.com.. I have to remind [...]
Category: Business Rule Management (BRM) Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Rule Management (BRM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
Should it be “business rule engine” or “business rules engine?” Should “rule” be singular or plural? “Should be” and “is” are two different concepts. Take a look at the search results below. The inconsistent use of both the plural and the singular abounds. Why should “business rules management” (plural) dominate while “business rule management system” [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Business Rule Management (BRM) Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), Business Rule Management (BRM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
I spent last night repairing dry rot above my garage door. I had to chip out a lot of bad wood and rebuild the structure with new wood, screws and wood-filler. Sadly, I am quite adept at using wood-filler. The repair job reminded me of how we deal with bad processes: Not planning for decay [...]
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by David McCoy | October 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
In Q1 2008, Jim Sinur and I will release research on the different approaches to business rule representation. This is going to be a fun research effort – lots of theory, lots of hands-on testing. This is also a misunderstood area. For instance, some users think that a natural-language (NL) approach to rule representation is [...]
Category: Academic Goings-On Business Process Management (BPM) Business Rule Management (BRM) Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Rule Management (BRM), David McCoy, Gartner
