[My April column for BPM Institute. Please add your own nominees in the comments.]
Is there a BPM Hall of Fame? I don’t think so, but there should be, to recognize the true pioneers and innovators in the field. BPM’s core ideas and technologies come from several divergent fields, and my list would include those who [...]
Tom Baeyens weighs in on my debate with Michael. He mostly sides with Michael, but I think because of a slight understanding of my stance. I’m not saying BPMN is all or nothing. Yes it has parts that are not very useful. And, like Michael, the tool vendors factor into my thinking as well, in [...]
Michael zur Muehlen posts a lengthy response to my post On How Much BPMN Do You Need. He elaborates on his data analysis procedure – their procedure, actually, as Jan Recker was a co-author – and it’s actually kind of interesting, looking at statistical correlations between diagram elements in a sample of BPMN collected in the wild. [...]
Michael zur Muehlen posts a strange bit of analysis called How Much BPMN Do You Need? The method of research consisted of collecting 126 BPMN 1.0 diagrams from “consultants, seminar participants, and online sources,” and counting the frequency of various diagram objects in them. His conclusion is that the BPMN that you “really need” consists [...]
Last fall I wrote a column and subsequent blog post called My BPMN Wish List, discussing some useful semantic patterns that were hard to diagram in BPMN. I didn’t get much comment on it, so I was a bit surprised to find recently on the OMG site a featured white paper by Antoine Lonjon, better known as [...]
BPMN training v3.0, that is. Here’s a link to the overview on BPMessentials.com. Sorry for repeatedly blathering about this, but if you’ve ever tried to produce 6 hours of Flash video material you know the level of pain involved.
My latest column on BPM Institute covers the issue of end-to-end process models which involve multiple pools and deeply nested hierarchies. It was motivated by painful experience grading certification exercises in my BPMN training. That experience was critical to my ultimate decision to include this in version 3.0 of my BPMN training, overcoming an initial concern [...]
On April 9 I’ll be speaking at Impact, IBM’s annual WebSphere mega-event in Las Vegas, on the topic of “Leveraging Enterprise Content in BPM and SOA”. I was quite surprised they invited me, as I have been critical of their previous positioning of FileNet vs WebSphere in the BPMS space (“content-centric” vs “process-centric”? are you [...]
Continue reading about Introducing SOA Developers to Content Management
I’ve just finished version 3.0 of my Process Modeling with BPMN course – it should go live on BPMessentials tomorrow. A 2-day classroom version will be held in Chicago on April 16-17, hosted by the BPM Institute. Same material, same hands-on exercises with Process Modeler for Visio, same certification procedures as the online. Once the [...]
Continue reading about BPMN Training v3.0… online, and live in Chicago
Over the past several months I’ve been doing a lot of work with SAP to beef up the modeling-related content on their BPX community site. BPX stands for Business Process Expert, a term intended to describe a new role in the organization, straddling the line between business and IT. I see BPMN as a critical [...]
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