Staffing the Business Rules Management Office

Business Managers want to know about the organization and staffing of the responsibility to manage business rules. This gets to the practical issues of who is in control, where do the people come from, how do they get trained, what are roles and responsibilities, what are reporting relationships, and who owns the PY's?

Please share your experience and recommendations.

One suggestion is to model the Business Rules Management Office after the Project Management Office. Another model calls for each business organization to have its own set of rule specialists. Representatives of each organization can meet periodically or establish other means to share rules with one another to avoid inappropriate duplication and to promote standards for documentation and vetting rules. A third model calls for an analogy to the database administration office. The DBA takes business rules after full articulation and processes the rules through to implementation. The Rules Unit then works with projects to form individual rules into policies to be orchestrated as automation decision making processes.