Business Rule Solutions: Know What Your Business Rules Are About—Decision Rules vs. Behavioral Rules
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Business Rule Solutions: Know What Your Business Rules Are About—Decision Rules vs. Behavioral Rules Ron Ross warns against force-fitting a decision-oriented approach to every business rule problem in business processes. Noting that the differences between behavioral rules and decision rules are pronounced, Ron provides three typical examples to illustrate the differences and to suggest how […]
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At BRS, Mr. Ross co-develops Proteus®, its landmark business analysis and business rules methodology, which features numerous innovative techniques including the popular RuleSpeak® (available free through www.BRCommunity.com). These are the latest offerings in a 30-year career that has consistently featured creative, business-driven solutions.
Mr. Ross also serves as Executive Editor of www.BRCommunity.com and its flagship on-line publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a regular columnist for the Journal’s Commentary section which also features John Zachman, Chris Date, Terry Halpin, and Roger Burlton. BRCommunity.com, hosted and sponsored by BRS, is a vertical community for professionals working with business rules and related areas. Mr. Ross was formerly Editor of the Data Base Newsletter from 1977 to 1998.
Mr. Ross is recognized internationally as the “father of business rules.” He has served as Co-Chair of the annual Business Rules Forum Conference since 1997. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group (BRG) in the 1980s, and an editor of the two landmark BRG papers,”The Business Motivation Model: Business Governance in a Volatile World” (2000, revised 2005) and the “Business Rules Manifesto” (2003). He is also active in OMG standards development for business rules and business models.
Mr. Ross is the author of eight professional books. His newest are: Business Rule Concepts (2005), a second edition of his popular, easy-to-read 1998 handbook, and Principles of the Business Rule Approach, Addison-Wesley (2003), featuring the business rationale and opportunity for business rules. An earlier work, The Business Rule Book (1994, 1997), was the seminal work in the field.
Mr. Ross received his M.S. in information science from Illinois Institute of Technology, and his B.A. from Rice University.
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