Standards and Methodologies

DMN – Decision Model and Notation

• This standard is being developed by Object Management Group (OMG) – click here to see the latest official version of the DMN Specification  in the PDF format
• LinkedIn Group
• DMN Supporting Tools

BPMN – Business Process Model And Notation

• This standard is being developed by Object Management Group (OMG) – see http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/
• LinkedIn Discussion Group
• Bruce Silver’s book “BPMN Method and Style“

SBVR – Semantics Of Business Vocabulary And Business Rules

• This standard has been developed by Object Management Group (OMG) – see http://www.omg.org/spec/SBVR/1.3/

BABOK – Business Analysis Body of Knowledge

• BABOK from IIBA is the essential standard to help business analysts deliver business value and create better business outcomes
• Guide

RuleML and RIF

• RuleML is the only attempt to build a standard that covers the formal semantics of business rules
• Official website
• RIF is the W3C Rule Interchange Format that is based on RuleML and Semantic Web and deals with rules interchangeability issues

JSR-94 “Rule Engine Java API”

• Latest Official JSR-94 release (JCP site)
• Latest interim (Expert Group) release
• Website
• While many BRMS vendors support JSR-94, it provides only a common API for a rule engine invocation and it doesn’t deal with business rules organization, semantics or interchangeability issues

JSR-331 “Java Constraint Programming API”

• Official JCP site: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=331
• Community site: http://jsr331.org
• CP Standardization Blog

Related Methodologies

• The Decision Model (TDM) is a popular methodological approach offered by KPI  (now with SAPIENS) and  described in this book. See also LinkedIn Discussion Group and TDM Primer.

• RuleSpeak is a set of guidelines proposed by Ronald G. Ross for expressing business rules in concise, business-friendly fashion. It is not a language or syntax per se, but rather a set of best practices for speakers of English.