Wednesday | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | BRF1 Track

SESSION TITLE

Quest for a Business Rules Management Environment

SPEAKER(s):

Debbie Ware Senior Management and Program Analyst, Business Rules and Requirements Management Office (BRRMO) IRS

MAIN FOCUS OF PRESENTATION: Business

FAMILIARITY WITH SUBJECT: Novice

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

The Internal Revenue Service recently established a Business Rules and Requirements Management Office, responsible for establishing the standards for managing business rules and requirements across the service, including the business rules approach methodology, metamodel, grammar and governance process. To manage business rules from an enterprise perspective, a business rules management environment (BRME) is needed that supports business rules authoring, business concept and process modeling, analysis and reporting, all supported by a secure business rules repository. This session will guide you through the IRS’s quest to find their BRME tool suite. What you will learn:

• Requirements Overview
• Evaluation Process
• Market Research Findings
• Lessons Learned



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

Debbie Ware is a Senior Management and Program Analyst in the Business Rules and Requirements Management Office (BRRMO). BRRMO is part of the Chief Information Officer’s Enterprise Services organization. Debbie has been a lead analyst in the formation and implementation of this office in the IRS which began in December 2004. In January 2005, she led the Submission and Settlement Harvesting Project (SSHP), presented at the Business Rules Forum in 2005, which used a new business rules methodology to identify redesign opportunities in the processing of individual tax returns, harvest business rule sets for the processes, and develop a conceptual architecture that supports the redesigned process. Debbie is currently Project Manager for the acquisition of the Enterprise Business Rules Management Environment. She began her career with the IRS in 1982 in Collections and joined the CIO in 1985 where she has worked in the IT project environment for 20 years. Her projects include Integrated Collections System, Inventory Delivery System, Integrated Case Processing, and LMSB Shared Data Set.