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Odd Steen
Dr Odd Steen has been Associate Professor at the Department of Infomatics at Lund University in Sweden for more than thirty years. Twenty years ago, Odd heard about Business Rules and understood that separating Business Rules (now Business Decisions) from the rest of the system is as important as separating the data into data management.
In 2006, Odd developed a Masters course in Business Rules Approach (BRA) which, through the years, has developed from BR formulation and logic using Prolog, into BR using BMRS, and now Business Decision Management using DMN and Decision Management Systems (DMS). Odd is the course director and teacher of the course, during which students work with a case to design decision requirement diagrams and decision logic to automate the decision making using a professional DMS. Since the beginning of the course, Odd has educated over 300 Master students in first BRA and then BDM using DMN.
During 2008 to 2011, Odd participated in the project research VacSam on developing and researching a Business Rules-based service for supporting vaccination personnel to make more correct and quicker assessment of emigrating children’s vaccination status compared to the Swedish child vaccination program. This project graphically illustrated the value of thinking about the decision as decision points in workflows, the distinction between decision logic and process logic and the benefit separation of concerns. Hence, the project emphasised the importance of decision management as a necessary way forward.
During 2021 to 2023, Odd was part of the DMN On-Ramp review group and reviewed and commented on several committee deliverables.
Dr Steen has published over 30 decision oriented papers and articles in international, high-quality academic conferences and journals.
Why DMN?
Business Decision Management using Decision Model and Notation (DMN) is a natural progression from the Business Rules Approach (BRA) for managing and possibly automating operational decisions in business workflows. To Odd, this is as important as Data Management is for managing and automating business data and Business Process Management is for managing and automating business workflows.
DMN is a standard that puts operational business decisions in focus so they can be developed and managed separately from data, workflows, system logic, etc. DMN lets businesspeople and IS/IT people share a common language, which, ultimately, leads to better business and IT alignment. Since businesspeople can themselves develop, maintain, and communicate decision structures and logic, the business has a greater chance to become more agile. In addition, since DMN decision logic models are deployable and runnable in real-time Decision Management Systems (DMS) almost on the fly, IT flexibility is enhanced to accommodate business agility.
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