Rules-Based Architecture for Systems Development
Paul Dorsey, Dulcian, Inc.

There are many business rules products and many systems that place some part of the rules in some kind of rules repository. This session takes a step back and asks what a 100 percent rules-based approach really means. A complete taxonomy of a rules-driven architecture will be presented. How to use the taxonomy to evaluate tools will be discussed.

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Pigs, Chickens, and Agile Development
Maggie Tompkins, USMC

Are you a chicken (involved) or a pig (committed)? What is your role in agile iterative development? A recent case study will be used to share lessons learned from a successful Java Web development project on Oracle Databases. Prototypes, integrated teams, iterations, backlogs, continuous testing, lean documentation, and other agile techniques will be discussed.

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How to analyze your business to identify the changes that need to happen
Marc de Oliveira, Simplify Solutions

When working with software development it is challenging to see through all the (some times contradicting) requirements being set forward from all sides of the business.

This session will give you an overview of how business analysis can be applied to not only understand how the business works but also provide you with methological tools to improve it.

A key factor here is to not only look at what the IT systems can do. You will also have to look at how IT is used, what kind of communication is going on and how the organization and its departments are structured.

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