Zbigniew Misiak runs a poll every year in his blog BPM Tips about the BPM skills that are required. This year was a challenge for me, as I see a big change happening as we move from bespoke BPM application to transition ultimately to learning based applications. Find my response below. Continue reading
In most BPM RFP’s there is a request for access to industry templates to allow for re-use and to get a head start. Most BPM vendors have some offering. The question is: are these of any value at all?
This is a technical deep dive into system design around providing a worklist to workers in a BPM system, and the technical tradeoffs you will encounter. 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
My notes from first day of bpmNEXT 2015, March 30. Continue reading
Here it is, the poster on the definition of BPM, with all the terms defined and explained! Continue reading
I was honored to give the keynote on the second day of the BPM2014 conference, and promised to answer questions, so here are the slides and summary. Continue reading
In the previous post, I introduced a scenario for discussing personal assistants. In this post, I explore how personal assistants are useful at a tool for connecting the primary care physician to the back care specialist. Continue reading
The WfMC and many other who help have been trying to highlight the positive examples of both BPM and ACM by collecting use cases, judging the best, and publishing in compendia. It was Socrates who said there is value in a focus on the negative: he would rather be refuted than to refute another because being rid oneself of evil of harboring false beliefs is better than ridding it in another. Continue reading
Everyone knows what a role is. It is obvious. We talk about them all the time. But every time I hear a programmer say the word “role” my ears pick up. The term is very often misused. How, then, might one use the term correctly and avoid the pitfalls? Continue reading
Thinking Matters 