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 [...]
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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Version 5.0 of my BPMessentials BPMN training will soon be available, in live classroom, virtual classroom, and online/on-demand formats. This is the first major revision since publication of my book, BPMN Method and Style, in June 2009. Since then I’ve trained around 1000 students on BPMessentials 4.x, and a number of lessons learned have been [...]
I’m always prattling on about “method and style” in BPMN modeling, and most folks probably don’t know what I’m talking about. My goal is maximizing shared understanding of the BPMN diagram, so it is clear and complete to anyone looking at it, even if the reader is unfamiliar with the process or the modeler’s terminology. [...]
From some of the recent comments on my posts, I see that I haven’t done a good job of explaining what exactly I mean by my “method and style” approach to BPMN. Also, that approach has gone through a few stages of evolution. So this is a good opportunity to both explain it to BPMS [...]
As promised, here is my first cut at a single list of the rules of BPMN, both the official rules from the spec (prefixed BPMN) and my “method and style” rules (prefixed Style). All are implemented in my Method and Style Validation tool. Note: for now, this list assumes the model includes no event [...]
Fortunately I was on vacation last month when Jim Sinur launched his fatuous “Burn Baby Burn” bomb, the one about how BPMN is too hard for Gartner clients. In the ensuing discussion, cooler heads mostly walked Jim back off the ledge, but the back-and-forth still did not get to the heart of the real problem, [...]
Last Friday I had a run-through of my upcoming BPMN Method and Style Level 1 workshop. It was a good thing. I got some helpful feedback on the content, and I learned a few tricks of Microsoft Visio 2010 (having the Visio product manager in attendance didn’t hurt). It was a little rushed to squeeze [...]
Thanks to all of you who took my BPMN Self-Test. BPMN, today accepted as the universal process modeling standard, is outwardly familiar — it looks like traditional swimlane flowcharts — but few people really know how to use it effectively. That’s what I try to teach in my book and the BPMessentials training. The self-test [...]
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