There are a number of conclusions about the industry that we can make from this year’s WfMC Awards for Excellence in BPM. Thirteen submissions won awards this year across a number of industries and practices. First a summary of the cases: Continue reading
Fourteen years ago, IBM and Microsoft announced plans to introduce a new language called Business Process Execution Langauge (BPEL) to much fanfare and controversy. This post takes a retrospective look at BPEL, how things have progressed, and ponders the point of it all. Continue reading
Talks by Nathaniel Palmer, Jim Sinur, Neil Ward-Dutton, Clay Richardson kick off this bell weather event in the process industry. The big theme is digital transformation. Continue reading
Six key process activities coming in 2016: Adaptive CM Workshop, ACM Awards, BPM Next, BPM and Case Management Global Summit, BPM 2016 Conference and (updated) CBI Conference. Continue reading
We talk about something called a “Role”. We all know what it means — or do we? There are a number of meanings to this term, and there is a kind of sleight-of-hand which is used to sometimes trick the unwary. Here I expose some of that trickery. Continue reading
During the presentations at the Workshop on Adaptive Case Management (ACM) on Monday, there was a growing question about the models: Not just how models should be constructed, but whether we should be using models at all. These ended up forming a major discussion at the end of the day, and even into the rest of the week, culminating with the final keynote questioning our obsession with models in BPM. This is my take on the main positions in the debate. Continue reading
So much planning, so much anticipation, and now the 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Case Management and other non-workflow approaches to BPM is over after one marvelous day. We had reserved some time at the end for a round table discussion, with some time in the morning to select topics. The subject of ‘The Purpose and Value of Modeling for Knowledge Worker Support’ quickly emerged as the dominant concern, and ended up being the main discussion point. Continue reading
Peter Schoof interviewed me last week on the subject of robust BPM. (Thanks Peter!) This had been the basis of a talk I gave in Montreal at the Workshop on Methodologies for Robustness Injection into Business Processes. It is a quick 15 minute summary:
Too much of a focus on the on the business process can cause a business solution to be poorly designed and problematic. This is a story from several customers who followed the BPM methodology too well, and were blindsided by some nightmarish systems issues. Too much process can be a real problem. Continue reading
Here are my notes from the second day of bpmNEXT on March 31, 2015. Note: I spoke on day 3, so was too busy, so these conclude my notes of the event. Continue reading
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