Monthly Archives: February 2021

DecisionCAMP March-10 Session with Nick Broom

Posted on February 22, 2021 by jacobfeldman

Date: Wed, March 10, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST (New York Time) Title: “Practical decision modelling in an Agile environment” Presenter: Nick BroomAbstract: Agile has been the buzzword across companies and domains for years now and focusing on the early delivery … Continue reading →

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Requests to BR&DM Vendors and Practitioners

Posted on February 21, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We sent the following requests to different vendors and practitioners who developed and/or use Digital Decisioning Platforms. If you haven’t received them, here they are: 

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Virtual Meetings: DOs and DON’Ts

Posted on February 16, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

It’s safe to say we’ve all gotten comfortable with virtual meetings, maybe even a little too comfortable. If you’re struggling with virtual meeting fatigue, read DOs and DON’Ts recommended by Netmind.net: 

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Microservices Design – API Gateway Pattern

Posted on February 16, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Decision Microservices and Serverless Architecture quickly become the de-facto approach for many modern decision-making applications.  “The goal of the microservices is to sufficiently decompose/decouple the application into loosely coupled microservices/modules in contrast to monolithic applications where modules are highly coupled … Continue reading →

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Is the 9-to-5 workday dead?

Posted on February 16, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Many Silicon Valley tech giants are announcing a substantial shift in how they allow their employees to work. These companies say the “9-to-5 workday is dead” and that they give employees more freedom to choose what their daily schedules look … Continue reading →

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BBC-2021

Posted on February 8, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The Building Business Capability (BBC) conference is the major annual event for business analysts with a solid representation of business rules and decision management tools and techniques. The Call for Presentations and Tutorials for is now open! Link

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Alternatives to ‘If-Then’ Statements

Posted on February 7, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The Medium’s article “5 Alternatives to ‘If’ Statements for Conditional Branching” states: “There’s some thinking in the programming community that if should be considered harmful or a code smell. Regardless of the validity of this claim, there may be cases where if isn’t the best … Continue reading →

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Buridan’s Indecisioning

Posted on February 4, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Buridan’s Principle: A discrete decision based upon an input having a continuous range of values cannot be made within a bounded length of time.  Leslie Lamport Everyday example: “You’re walking down the street and realize, to your chagrin, that you’re … Continue reading →

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Government Rules as Code (RaC)

Posted on February 3, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

BRCommunity.com just published “The Distilled Principles of Rules as Code (RaC): How to Produce Better Rules” by Pim Willemstein and Ronald G. Ross. RaC is an idea that addresses how law and regulations should be simultaneously produced in natural language … Continue reading →

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A Simple Decision Service Benchmark

Posted on February 1, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Today we published Feb-2021 Challenge that contains a simple benchmark to compare performance of different decision service implementations. It has only one decision table and a set of JSON input structures. We expect that DM practitioners and vendors will implement the … Continue reading →

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