What will year 2012 has in store for RG? The way I see there is not much change in the process. However the content will change. With increasing connected-ness between business entities within and without the organizations, it is but natural to expect that the business are increasingly unable to predict their business state neither in terms of products, prices, policies and position.

Look at the curtain raiser for CES 2012. The offerings are so vast that one will probably wear your seven league shoes looking the show.

When migrating from legacy systems, often requirements have to be extracted from the code due to lack of documentation. What are the difficulties in doing so? What could be the best way forward? Business experts can describe the business process butare not fully aware of what business rules have been coded and provided for in the existing code.

See
http://eswarann.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/extracting-business-rules-from-legacy-code-2/

I had written earlier on why there is need to understand code from legacy systems here http://eswarann.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/on-understanding-code/ . One of the concerns during migration of legacy systems is to document the business rules from the software. What are business rules?

Wikipedia defines it as –