bruce on February 9th, 2012

I fretted about this for weeks but I finally pulled the trigger.  My book BPMN Method and Style is now available as a Kindle ebook, compatible with Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle for iPad, or Kindle for PC.  I got a lot of requests for this, especially  international, so we’ll see if there is a market [...]

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bruce on February 7th, 2012

There’s still space available in my BPMessentials live-onine BPMN Method and Style class, March 5-7 from 11am -4pm (US ET)/8am-1pm (US PT)/5pm-10pm (Europe CET) each day.  No previous modeling experience is required, and you will come out of the training able to construct BPMN models that are not only correct but clear, consistent, and complete.  [...]

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bruce on December 2nd, 2011

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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bruce on November 16th, 2011

Here is the schedule of BPMN Method and Style live-online training for 2012.  The class runs on three consecutive days, tentatively Monday to Wednesday from 8am to 1pm US Pacific time, which is 11am to 4pm US Eastern time.  However, some classes may be adjusted to be more convenient for Europe or Australia/New Zealand.  If [...]

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bruce on October 19th, 2011

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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bruce on October 17th, 2011

Our BPMN Method and Style live-online classes have been very well attended, with many students from overseas.  The next one is timed to be convenient for those in Australia and New Zealand.  I needed to go to my world time zone calculator for this one.  Here are the dates and times, depending on your location: [...]

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bruce on July 25th, 2011

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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bruce on June 3rd, 2011

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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bruce on October 16th, 2010

A few updates on my Method and Style validation tools… The one that works on the BPMN 2.0 export from itp commerce requires Service Release 5 of their tool. My apologies to those who tried to get it to work with SR4.  The good news is that SR5 beta is available from the training area [...]

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bruce on October 8th, 2010

I read somewhere that it was possible to chain xslt’s together, so I thought it was worth a try to combine the Visio-to-BPMN transform and the BPMN validator into a single operation.  And it worked!  So now you can do Method and Style validation directly on diagrams created with the BPMN template in Visio Premium [...]

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