Yearly Archives: 2016

DMN Interchange Software

Posted on May 23, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

As a community, we would like to maintain different software pieces that can be shared and reused by vendors and practitioners to promote Decision Management in general and the DMN standard in particular. So, we added a special section “Community Software” to … Continue reading →

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DMN 1.2 RTF Meeting at DecisionCAMP

Posted on May 12, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The Revision Task Force (RTF) for DMN 1.2 will be meeting in at Stony Brook University, New York, USA, on Wednesday 6th July, the day before DecisionCamp 2016.  The meeting is open only to members of the RTF, but others … Continue reading →

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Does Machine Learning Require Programming?

Posted on May 8, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“Machine learning is often touted as a field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Despite this common claim, anyone who has worked in the field knows that designing effective machine learning systems is a tedious … Continue reading →

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The Triple Crown Of Process Improvement Standards

Posted on May 6, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Denis Gagné from Trisotech will present “BPMN™, CMMN™, DMN™: An Intro To The Triple Crown Of Process Improvement Standards” at the free webinar on May 12, 2016

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Decision Modeling: Tacit Knowledge and Business Rules

Posted on May 2, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In this post Jacob Feldman talks about two opposite learning directions taken by humans and decision automation: Human Learning: from Rules to Tacit Knowledge Decision Modeling: from Tacit Knowledge to Rules

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Is Analytics losing its competitive edge?

Posted on April 30, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

John Poppelaars just published a paper with this title. He refers to the review recently published by MIT Sloan Management “Beyond the Hype: The hard work behind analytics success“. One of the key findings is that analytics seems to be losing its … Continue reading →

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“Agile” is Dead – Long Live Agility

Posted on April 29, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

It started with this 2014 post by Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Dave proposed to retire the word “Agile”. To learn why, you may listen his recent presentation. Below are a few interesting quotes:

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How Big of a Role Do You See Decision Management Playing in BPM?

Posted on April 27, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

bpmNEXT provoked an interesting discussion with this title among BPM experts at bpm.com.

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“This is the year for DMN”

Posted on April 23, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A slide with this statement was shown on the last day of just concluded bpmNEXT-2016 at Santa Barbara. Decision Modeling and Decision Management played a significant role at this prestigious conference and experts predict that in the nearest future the technologies behind such standards as BPMN, … Continue reading →

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Gartner Backs Decision Modeling in Algorithm Economy

Posted on April 14, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

James Taylor just published a post, in which he describes a new research Develop Good Decision Models to Succeed at Decision Management produced by Gartner’s analysts Lisa Kart and Roy Schulte and available only to subscribers.

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