http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/07/03/the-two-faces-of-bpmn/ Bruce Silver's blog on business process management Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:50:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/07/03/the-two-faces-of-bpmn/#comment-155 BPMS Watch » One Notation to Rule Them All Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:35:17 +0000 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/07/03/the-two-faces-of-bpmn/#comment-155 [...] I come down strongly on the side of Paul and Sandy, and in fact go farther to say it should be BPMN not UML Activity Diagrams, and in fact it should be an improved BPMN that resolves the inherent conflicts between an anything-goes drawing notation and a “modeling language” with precise execution (and analytical) semantics. [...] [...] I come down strongly on the side of Paul and Sandy, and in fact go farther to say it should be BPMN not UML Activity Diagrams, and in fact it should be an improved BPMN that resolves the inherent conflicts between an anything-goes drawing notation and a “modeling language” with precise execution (and analytical) semantics. [...]

]]> http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/07/03/the-two-faces-of-bpmn/#comment-138 BPMS Watch » Thoughts on BPMN 2.0 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:15:37 +0000 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/07/03/the-two-faces-of-bpmn/#comment-138 [...] That alignment was “supposed” to be what BPMN 2.0 would be about.  But as I noted a couple days back, Frank McCabe of Fujitsu and the BPMN TC in OMG leaked that while the BPMN group thought they were defining precise process semantics, others at OMG (I inferred maybe the BPDM guys?) thought the goal was just a drawing notation for business modeling.  And at that impasse, things, sez Frank, “seem to be a bit stuck right now.” [...] [...] That alignment was “supposed” to be what BPMN 2.0 would be about.  But as I noted a couple days back, Frank McCabe of Fujitsu and the BPMN TC in OMG leaked that while the BPMN group thought they were defining precise process semantics, others at OMG (I inferred maybe the BPDM guys?) thought the goal was just a drawing notation for business modeling.  And at that impasse, things, sez Frank, “seem to be a bit stuck right now.” [...]

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