[My July column for BPMInstitute.org]
In these tough times, even the most change-resistant organizations are re-examining whether past practice should continue to govern standard operating procedures. Government and airlines, for example, spring to mind. Last week, I saw further evidence of this in delivering a BPMN training class to one of the many Federal agencies involved [...]
[My June column for BPMInstitute.org]
As BPM begins to expand beyond isolated projects to mainstream programs at the division or enterprise level, there is a need to engage a far greater number of business people in the effort. That’s not easy, and achieving it is going to require significant change in the way BPM is practiced.
The [...]
I’m trying to decipher Cordys chief strategist Jon Pyke’s post today on the case management proposal at OMG. It’s hard to tell what he’s saying, but I gather things did not go well in Costa Rica. I could have told him that, based on the bmi thread beforehand. He casts as the villain “analysts and consultants [...]
Lest there be any doubt that OMG is not a market-driven organization, they could not even generate a press release to proclaim BPMN 2.0’s first big step into the world of official standards. So I asked Dave Ings, IBM’s BPMN 2.0 pooh-bah, what actually transpired last month in Costa Rica. Here is what he said (as amended [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about BPMN Method and Style – Now Available
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 [...]
Continue reading about BPMN Method and Style – 2-Day Class in San Francisco
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 [...]
Continue reading about BPMN “Levels” and Tool Interoperability
[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 [...]
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