At the BPMN Workshop in Lucerne two weeks ago I presented a talk called “Fulfilling the Promises of BPMN 2.0.” The basic point was that the BPMN 2.0 specification by itself is insufficient to deliver on the standard’s two most fundamental promises: first, as a semantically precise process notation, that the meaning of the depicted [...]
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The good news is my book BPMN Method and Style 2nd edition, with BPMN Implementer’s Guide, is now showing In Stock on Amazon.com (not yet on Amazon.co.uk, unfortunately, which says 5-8 weeks). It was available for about 2 days at the end of October, and then I found about half dozen typos I saw on [...]
It was a longer wait than I expected, but in BPM 7.5.1, IBM is now providing real BPMN 2.0 support. I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet or look at the documentation – I think GA is later this week – but I got the briefing from the team. And I have [...]
I was expecting more feedback on my Executable BPMN 2.0 post. I did get a thoughtful and amusing rant from Alex Pavlov. He dismisses the whole idea of executable BPMN 2.0 as a cynical ploy by the middleware vendors that created it. Besides making some good points on the possibility of executable BPMN 2.0, he [...]
About 99% of the effort in drafting the BPMN 2.0 standard, and 95% of the bad rap it has received, relates to “executable” BPMN 2.0 models. It’s been over a year since publication of the final spec, and it seems that executable BPMN 2.0 tools don’t really exist yet. I hope I’m wrong. For years [...]
The second edition of my book BPMN Method and Style is now available. It just went up on Amazon US today, not yet in UK. Here is the link to the Amazon page. Wow, that was a lot of work. I’ve moved the book’s website www.bpmnstyle.com to a section of this site, making it easier [...]
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Visio Premium’s BPMN template is a drawing tool for BPMN diagrams, not a true modeling tool that internally understands the BPMN metamodel. It does provide a validation feature that uses Visio 2010′s new Validation API to check the diagram against the rules of the BPMN 1.2 spec, and that is helpful. But deep down, the [...]
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At this week’s SAP Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas, BPM is definitely off the main track. The only other BPM analyst here that I recognized is Jim Sinur of Gartner. The keynote sessions were all about HANA, SAP’s new in-memory analytics platform that is the key to reinvigorating the entire SAP portfolio (at least [...]
Based on a very successful July class, with 35 students, including several from Europe and Asia, we’re going to do another one in September. Save the date – BPMN Method and Style training, live online on September 19, 20, and 21 from 11am-4pm ET (8am-1pm PT, or 5pm-10pm Europe time). The class will leverage some [...]
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Interest in BPM training and certification is accelerating, and being able to understand and create BPMN process models has become a critical foundation skill. We’ve set the dates for the next 3-day virtual classroom: July 11, 12, and 13 from 11am-4pm ET (8am-1pm PT, or 5pm-10pm Europe time). Check out Sandy Kemsley’s review of the [...]
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