Once again, my search for anything related to governance and management brought me to the bpmbasics.com website to watch the seminar Roles on BPM at http://www.bpmbasics.com/resources/academy/bpm104.jsp

My contention is that a lot of the concepts applicable to BPM are also applicable to business rules.

Here are some highlights of the webinar edited to apply to business rules:

It’s about the people. People are at the center of this, they make this possible.

The roles identified and their responsibilities:

• CIO / CTO, Executive Team
  • If driving the initiative, account for metrics and high-level KPIs
  • If not, push for executive buy-in and high-level organizational support
  • Use high-level support as an opportunity for improvement across silos (COE, Governance)
• Center of Excellence (COE) 
  •  Common location for skills, knowledge and an enterprise wide vision
• Technology Advisory Board (Technology Councils or Think Tanks)
  • Facilitates standards and software adoptions across group
• Industry experts
  • To help kick start the knowledge transfer within the organisation
• Vendor support
  • To help make optimal use of the tools
• Business Analyst, Business Rule Analyst
  • Gathering requirements, rules and performing analysis
• Rule developer
  • Helps the Business Rule Analyst with implementation of the rules for execution
• IT Architect
  • Responsible for the architecture and design of the enterprise system integration and configuration
• System Developer
  • Responsible for low level development, integration with other system, etc.

Titles are less important than clear definitions of responsibilities.

Pay attention to the handoffs between roles.

Composing Project Teams

• Business goal driven, but technology powered
• Create mixed teams of technologists and business analysts
• Involve and be involved with outside groups
• Build teams for quick results but develop skills and roles for the long term

Creating your BPM team

• Adapt to the specific project size and complexity
• Leverage prior successes

This list of roles is a decent starting point. The information extrapolated from this webinar can also be cross referenced with the list of Roles from ABRD v1.2 (which seems a bit more complete) and other sources.

I guess I now have to take all that information and take it to the next level… You should expect more on this topic in the future.