I wrote previously about Lombardi’s efforts to open up Blueprint using XPDL 2.1. A BPMN diagram created in Blueprint can be exported as XPDL and imported into itp commerce Process Modeler for Visio, the tool I use in my BPMessentials training. This is great! Even though it is a standard, BPMN is rarely portable between [...]
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I have taken Phil Gilbert’s suggestion to heart and stood up a new website BPMN Case Management where we can explore the possibilities for a case management modeling notation closely tied to BPMN… without re-fighting the whole BPMN war from the very beginning, as OMG seems inclined to do. Once the DNS sets up, it [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ve taken an interest in cloud-based modeling tools, so I decided to check out a new one from Signavio. This is a German company related somehow to Gero Decker and colleagues at HPI, the authors of that steamy BPMN “novella,” The Process. A 30-day trial is free. Here’s a quick review.
You have to sign a [...]
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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[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 [...]
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