Thanks to all of you who took my BPMN Self-Test. BPMN, today accepted as the universal process modeling standard, is outwardly familiar — it looks like traditional swimlane flowcharts — but few people really know how to use it effectively. That’s what I try to teach in my book and the BPMessentials training. The self-test [...]
I am a little surprised at the scores on my BPMN self-test. Ten questions, four diagrams each, one of which is the correct answer. The scenarios are typical from real-world processes, and most of the patterns should be used routinely in process models. A couple of questions are a little hard, but I would have [...]
I saw a link a couple days ago for a BPMN self-test, and thought I’d try it out. The test, available to anyone, is “part of a research project by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven on the understanding of BPMN Process Models.” It’s harmless I suppose, but – to my way of thinking, [...]
I know many of you are planning to put learning BPMN at the top of your 2010 resolutions list. Well, if you’re not, you should be! Travel is hard these days, but you’re in luck. I’m going to be offering my BPMN training in a virtual classroom format – live, interactive, delivered over the Internet, [...]
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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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That’s the title of my new book. I’m planning for release end of June, coinciding with approval of BPMN 2.0 by OMG. The basic idea is that using BPMN effectively requires more than a summary of the spec… especially with BPMN 2.0, on which the book is based. It needs three things besides that.
First, an [...]
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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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 [...]
BPMN 2.0 is heading for finalization. I’ve been a part of the team developing it, and it provides some really useful new features. You can get a look at what it adds and how to use it effectively at my 2-day course in Chicago April 8-9, Process Modeling with BPMN, hosted by BPM Institute. This [...]
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I will be chairing an all new BPMS Track at BPMInstitute.org’s upcoming BPM Conference in New York City at The Roosevelt Hotel (November 5-6). This track analyzes the latest generation of BPM Suites, and features an extended panel on November 5 in which leading vendors show how their offerings address key topics such as business-IT alignment, [...]
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