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Often, the answer seems to be “no” because the business doesn’t see the
value that managing business rules brings, or, alternatively, the business might
understand that it does have value, but not enough, or that the value is hard to
measure and apply to business management.
If rule management could really be turned over to businesspeople, and they could
tweak the rules if they were given the power and authority to do so, then would
business rule systems be worth it? They might be because as a result the business
would be much more adaptable to market conditions. However, do businesspeople
really want to perform maintenance? After all, that ...