Google alerts made my day with this blog quote 🙂
The Power of Skunkworks
While at LPA me and a guy from Amentra were told to make the Blaze Rules Engine to work in ways it was not built to be used. After banging our heads on it for a month, countless conference calls with Fair Isaac, and general disgust with the complexity – I spent a weekend learning Drools and replaced it. It was perfect. Just what we needed. I switched their coffee with mine, and they never noticed. I told them a week later what happened. Told my boss. Then his boss. Several conference calls later my system was officially in – Blaze was out, saving our company $250k/year in license and support fees.
