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James Taylor is CEO and Principal Consultant at Decision Management Solutions and one of the leading experts in decision management and decisioning technologies. James is passionate about using technology to improve decision making and develop smarter systems. He is an active consultant, speaker, blogger and author. He is the lead authorof "Smart (Enough) Systems" (Prentice Hall, 2007), which he wrote with Neil Raden, and has contributed chapters to books on business rules and business intelligence. James was previously a VP at FICO and has over 20 years developing software and solutions for clients.

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RuleSpeak - some useful guidelines for writing rules

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Posted April 10, 2009 with 141 reads

Keywords: business rules, rulespeak, Business Intelligence, CRM, Data Mining, Predictive Analytics

The folks at BR Solutions launched a new website that makes some of the RuleSpeak guideliness for writing good rules available for download at www.RuleSpeak.com. It offers basic RuleSpeak 2.0 guidelines in English, Spanish, German and (soon) Dutch. Ron Ross wrote an article about this in the April issue of the Business Rules Journal eUpdate.

I took a quick look and anyone writing rules - as requirements, as specification for a business rules management system or just to capture a policy - should download it and take a look as it has some great staightforward advice. I think there is an opportunity for an even shorter version but this one is a quick read and well worth the time investment.

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