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Best Practices for Business Rules Management

by Troy Foster, Senior Vice President, Innovations Software Technology Corp.

How are business rules used in practice? How can you benefit from Innovations' consolidated experience? This podcast shows some best practices expertise gathered in multiple rule projects. Innovations’ best practices can help companies, or in person rule authors to jump start with rule modeling and management – whether you are just starting with your rules project or are already familiar with setting up rule projects. Tune in!

Credit Decisions in the Subprime Market

Peter Klinnert, Capgemini Consulting, shows how to define and implement a clear set of rules for accepting or rejecting loan applications and at the same time flexibly manage the institute's risk appetite. Check out this 4 minutes video and learn how this consultant uses the business rules approach in order to capture and structure the knowledge of risk professionals, and in the end improve the quality of credit decisions.

Effective Listening

Effective listening is the ability to hear and understand a message being conveyed by another person. All too often, we hear without listening and listen without hearing...

Effective listening is a way of listening that will ensure you heard and understood the message that the sender intended to send.

About the Author:
In addition to being a diverse and senior Business & Strategic Analyst, Barbara Davis has a degree in Conflict Resolution and 25 years of professional skills training experience.

Agile Requirements, Part 2

Ellen Gottesdiener continues her discussion with Tom Cagley about work ahead agile requirements, user stories, collaboration, and more :: 21 minutes

Agile Requirements, Part 1

Ellen Gottesdiener shares her experiences with agile requirements, collaboration, and other topics with Software Process and Methods Cast (SPaM) interviewer Tom Cagley :: 16 minutes

Effective Requirements Management: The thread that connects IT with Business

Author: Melinda Ballou, Program Director for IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management Group and principal analyst for Insight's IT Management service

Whether you are producing a product, an application, a system or a process, requirements drive the application process. During this podcast, Melinda Ballou program director of IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management Group will discuss how a connected requirements approach to the application development lifecycle strengthens your requirements management capabilities by unifying the requirements definition process and integrating requirements with the complete application development environment, techniques and best practices. No matter what you are building this approach can help you improve time-to-market, increase quality and reduce costs.

Principles For Effective Requirements Management

Managing complex projects is a challenging task. A prerequisite for project success is that stakeholders have a crystal clear picture of where the project is going - all of which should be defined in the project’s requirements. Therefore, the quality of these requirements, and how they are managed during the project, has a profound impact on the chances of project success.

Fueling IT Innovation Through Software Visualization: A Conversation with Gary Beach, Publisher of CIO Magazine

iRise commissioned its first annual survey of line of business (LOB) executives in March 2006, which was conducted by independent research firm Decipher. A total of 150 LOB executives that own at least a $50M business within organizations with revenues of at least $500M completed the survey.

There is a fundamental shift taking place in global corporations - a shift in focus from implementation to design. Business is under increasing pressure to leverage innovation as a competitive tool to achieve agility and growth. It's becoming less important how or where to build things; it's becoming more important to understand what to build in the first place. This sea-change is affecting nearly every industry across the globe.

Practical Techniques to Elicit Effective Requirements while Building Trust.

About the Speakers    

Fergal McGovern

Director, Requirements Management Solutions, Compuware Corporation

Fergal McGovern has been a software development leader for nearly 20 years and is an expert in the use of structured requirements and processes throughout the project lifecycle. He has held senior technical positions at IONA Technologies, Ebeon and Fortune 1000 companies that include Dell, Kraft Foods, GTE, Bank of Montreal and Advantest.

Ellen Gottesdiener

Principal Consultant, EBG Consulting

Project Insight Talks on Strong Microsoft Partnership

Cynthia West, Vice President - Project Insight; along with Wes Kliewer, Director of Training and Support, speak about the customer benefits of strong integration with Microsoft. Project Insight is a Microsoft Gold Partner.

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