COOUG Business Rules SIG Meeting
PLACE: UCONN Health Center, Farmington, CT.
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:30PM - 7:15PM
SPEAKERS: Kathleen Barrett and David Brown, both from The Hartford, present a preview of their upcoming Business Rules Forum Conference presentation.
PRESENTATION TOPIC: “Promoting a Rule Organization for Re-Use - Our Solution and Lessons Learned”
EXPERIENCE LEVEL: All
Click here to view or download presentation (PDF file)
Open to the Public
Free Admission and Free Parking (no pre-registration required)
SCHEDULE:
. Doors open at 5:30PM for sign-in, pizza and networking
. Meeting Intro: 6:00PM - 6:05PM
. Presentation and Q&A: 6:05PM - 7:10PM
. Raffle: 7:10PM-7:15PM
MEETING SPONSOR: Raffle, Pizza, soft drinks, and cookies courtesy of Lambert Technical Services
ABOUT THE SESSION:
Besides requiring the capability for business users to maintain rules, our customer wanted to manage the rules. Our customer had detailed requirements about rule categorization, organization and metadata. The business analysts needed ways to organize rules for reuse and the ability to deploy a group of rules as one unit. We met these requirements with a solution in Blaze and Oracle involving containers. David will explain how through this implementation, we were able to promote rule reuse and significantly reduce the number of rules to manage. This presentation will discuss our solution and our lessons learned.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
David Brown has 10 years of experience designing, developing and managing various IT projects utilizing many different technologies. The past 3 years of his career has been as a rules architect and developer for an application using Fair Isaac’s Blaze rules engine and Java. The current application implements underwriting rules for various lines of business within the personal lines insurance space. Additionally, David holds a graduate certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and a Six Sigma green belt.
Kathleen Barrett has over 20 years of experience in various disciplines and technologies, including Oracle, object-oriented development, rules technology, project management and technical leadership. For the past 5 years, she has functioned as senior developer on a business rules-based application, utilizing Fair Isaac’s Blaze rules engine and Java.
DIRECTIONS to UCONN Health Center: http://www.uchc.edu/directions/
PARKING: Free Parking after 5pm in Visitors Parking at the Main Hospital Entrance (see campus map for locating Main Hospital Entrance: http://www.uchc.edu/images/campus_map.gif )
MEETING ROOM LOCATION: Low Learning Center at the UCONN Health Center, Farmington, CT. In order to get to the Low Learning Center you must go to the main hospital entrance and take the escalators down one floor. The escalators are located on the left hand side of the main lobby towards the back. When you get off the escalators you turn left toward Keller Auditorium. As you approach Keller you will see a hallway to your left. Follow the hallway down a little ways and you will see the Low Learning Center.
COOUG BUSINESS RULES SIG EMAIL LIST: Self-Service Sign-Up
To SUBSCRIBE to the COOUG Business Rules SIG email list, simply send a message with the word 'subscribe' in the message body to:
bus-rules-sig-announce-request@cooug.org
To UNSUBSCRIBE to the COOUG Business Rules SIG email list, simply send a message with the word 'unsubscribe' in the message body to:
bus-rules-sig-announce-request@cooug.org
QUESTIONS: If you have any questions about this meeting or the Business Rules SIG, please contact:
Co-Chairpersons, COOUG Business Rules SIG:
Joe Garrity: joe.garrity@thehartford.com Ladd Bethune: lbethune_brdp@lambert-tech.com
The COOUG Business Rules SIG was created in May 2005 as a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the CT. Object Oriented Users Group (COOUG). The target members of the SIG are a mixture of business and IT since a business rules approach applies to both. Topics will vary to accommodate the target members, for beginners, for techies, for business, user stories, case studies, etc.
http://www.cooug.org/brsig