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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
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Nine Outrageous Things I Learned At Think Tank
- 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 hear businesses asking for that all the time.]
- Portability of process templates was never a goal of BPEL, just interoperability [i.e., abstract process definition]. – John Evdemon, Microsoft, BPEL TC co-chair. [You mean I’ve been defending BPEL against the haters all this time for nothing??]
- BPEL is not ready for production. – Evdemon [Because the 2.0 spec could still change in the next 30 days? At least I hope that’s it…]
- BPEL probably got more press than it deserved when it came out because of the vendors supporting it. I probably should be covering up my badge. – Evdemon again [At least the guy’s honest! Note: BizTalk 06 still doesn't support it except as an import/export format.]
- OMG can’t finalize the metamodel (BPDM) and schema for BPMN until it works out the complete semantics of choreography (message exchange patterns between multiple collaborating processes). – Fred Cummins, EDS, OMG BPDM TC. [Translation: don’t hold your breath…]
- The BPDM metamodel and BPMN schema are available today. It’s called XPDL. – Keith Swenson, WfMC XPDL TC. [That’s basically true. OMG has effectively given XPDL a two-year window to establish itself as the de facto BPMN schema, and make the official OMG epic irrelevant.]
- An easier way to do BPM is to just use modeling and BAM, and forget the process engine and BPMS. That would make it easier to “sell” internally. - Consensus of BPM practitioners at my roundtable. [D'oh!]
- My blog posts are too long. Who has time to read 500 words? - Sandy Kemsley, BPM blogger. [I have no comeback to that one.]
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