bruce on February 8th, 2007

Long-time readers of BPMS Watch know I’ve learned the hard way that to most people who self-identify with an interest in BPM, the big leap is not executing the process and rules but simply documenting it, writing it down.  Now that I’m waist-deep in that world myself with the new BPMN training, I decided to [...]

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bruce on February 6th, 2007

I’ve been talking about it for a while, laboring over it for even longer.  Now I’m announcing it: Process Modeling with BPMN, a comprehensive course on how to use the standard both correctly (per the OMG spec) and effectively – with a supplied best-practice top-down methodology – to model and analyze business processes.

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bruce on February 1st, 2007

I had a briefing recently with Global 360’s CEO Michael Crosno, and it’s interesting to see how far that organization has come since the management buyout last year. 
Although G360 is one of the largest BPM vendors from a total software revenue perspective – Gartner/DQ had them #2 to DST in 2005, but… well, let’s let [...]

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bruce on February 1st, 2007

SOA analyst Beth Gold-Bernstein of ebizQ posts about her quest for a BPMN tool to support her effort, together with Brenda Michelson. to create a “service design method.”
Our goal is to take a pragmatic business driven approach to incremental (ie – project driven) SOA design and implementation. We plan to use standard modeling techniques and [...]

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