The vote on BPMN 2.0 is not the only thing on the agenda at next week’s OMG meeting in Costa Rica. There is also the release of an RFP for a new Case Management standard, authored by Henk de Man of Cordys. Response to the announcement of same on OMG’s BMI mailing list has been [...]
It came together faster than I thought! BPMN Method and Style is now available on Amazon.com. I had hoped to send out an email blast last night to announce it to all BPMS Watch subscribers from the Mailpress plugin, but I’ve been learning (the hard way) about gmail’s smtp limit… Apologies to those first 100 or [...]
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I finally shipped the book off to the printer yesterday! Wow, why does the last 5% take 50% of the time? Not certain how long before it ships, but June almost for sure.
I’ve been using the new levels-based method and style approach in private classroom training for the past couple months. I think it makes [...]
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BPMN is sometimes criticized for being too complicated for business users. That charge assumes that users need to understand every shape, symbol, and underlying attribute. But no one does, not even the experts, and most tools don’t even support them all.
The way around this problem is through a hierarchy of modeling “levels.” Levels are often used [...]
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[My May column on BPMInstitute.org]
“Cool” is not a word I would normally apply to IBM’s BPM software, but for the new BPM BlueWorks offering announced at Impact this week, the term is appropriate. IBM bills BPM BlueWorks as a BPM community in the cloud, and it is that, plus a lot more. Actually, I think [...]
Thus, with unintended irony, did our former president illustrate the consequences of low expectations in the debate over No Child Left Behind. No Child’s insistence on achieving a minimum competence in reading and arithmetic was scorned by many as too demanding, even “elitist,” even though we all know that without those things both the child and the nation [...]
Haven’t we beaten this to death yet? Apparently not, if Keith Swenson and Boris Lublinsky have anything to say about it. The discussion is leading nowhere. Boris inadvertently sums up the pointlessness of it in his conclusion:
The confusion about BPEL and BPM in general seems to keep growing in the industry. There is still no [...]
In IBM’s BPM Suite, the default or foundational offering on the WebSphere side is something called WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition. Here the term ‘dynamic process’ isn’t just the usual marketing doublespeak, but a fundamentally different way of modeling and executing processes, particularly customer-facing ones. It refers to the myriad of process variations that result from differences [...]
SAP is probably the world’s leading supplier of process automation software. Over half of the world’s business transactions, involving 12 Million users in 120 countries, touch one of 140,000 SAP systems. But the company is only now entering the “BPM market” with the launch of NetWeaver BPM, part of the NetWeaver middleware platform.
You would not expect [...]
[My December column on BPMInstitute.org]
Several months ago, I got an urgent request from OMG – the organization responsible for BPMN and other BPM standards – to give a short blurb I had written a permanent URL on my website. The blurb was a promotional piece for my BPMessentials training called “Three Levels of Process Modeling [...]
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