For me, the most troubling part of the BPM Think Tank event was my roundtable on The Business Value of BPMS. The roundtable format was an open-ended discussion with 10-12 attendees on a specific topic, formulating a problem statement and then a proposed ideal future state. I expected a discussion about which of BPMS’s putative benefits [...]
My previous post just hit the low points. Sandy has a more complete writeup of the day’s activities, which is mostly accurate. Kinda long, though, Sandy. Didn’t have time to fin
BPM is about empowering people. It was co-opted by integration vendors, who took it down an IT-centric path. – Connie Moore, Forrester. [Note: Forrester has separate analysts and “waves” for human-centric and integration-centric BPM. Guess which is Connie’s…]
The ultimate goal of BPM is self-aware processes that can recommend changes to process owners. – Connie again. [Yeah, I [...]
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[my latest BPMS Watch column on BPMInstitute.org]
The annual BPM Think Tank, now in its second iteration, is an event I’ve been looking forward to all year. Unlike most BPM conferences, which are generally aimed at helping newbies get started, Think Tank is a forum where experienced BPM vendors, analysts, academics, and user organizations come to [...]
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Virtually all the modeling notations and tools I know, including BPMN, as well as executable process design tools (both workflow-style and BPEL-based) follow the activity flow paradigm, i.e. like a flowchart or UML activity diagram, in which the flow is generally in one direction. Moreover, to create a valid executable process diagram, many (including the [...]
Nothing pegs my BS meter like a BPM keynoter waxing poetic about pi-calculus, especially to an auditorium full of business analysts. But now it looks like the pi guys have the last laugh. I noticed Technorati’s #2 hottest new book on Amazon is, you got it, “The Pi Calculus,” with 386 new links in the last 48 [...]
Can anyone help me understand how (or if) ESB fits in a BPMS? In the mountains of blather you can Google on either topic I can’t find anything that makes sense about how the work together! In fact, the more I try to understand ESB the confuseder I get. For clarity, let’s just consider BPEL-based [...]
It’s good to see Workflow Management Coalition’s Keith Swenson blogging now. Keith, whose actual livelihood is as chief architect of Fujitsu’s BPMS, has done heroic service over the years in advancing BPM standards consistent with the WfMC reference model, such as XPDL, ASAP, and others. His recent post “Workflow is Back” reflects the irritation of [...]
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If it were anyone else but Ismael Ghalimi, I would have simply muttered “idiotic” and moved on without a second thought. But when a guy at the top of my BPM hero list declares that “nobody cares about BPM” any more, my actual reaction was dismay and mild depression. The apparent basis for Ismael’s loss of faith: [...]
If you’re new to BPM and want to better understand the technology, I’m doing an all-day training session in San Francisco on June 28, in parallel with the Brainstorm BPM/SOA Conference. The training is sponsored by BPM Institute and counts toward their BPM certification credential. Click here for more information.
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