The Seven Fallacies of Business Process Execution. After 8+ years of intense research, the software industry and its customers are hitting a wall.
The vision defined by BPM startups in the dotcom era has not materialized yet: we are still far from having the ability to use the business process models designed by business analysts to create complete executable solutions (even with minimal interventions from developers). The need for process driven application models is real: Business Process Improvement initiatives are humming and running everywhere in G2000 companies, but despite such a strong need to continuously improve processes, the BPM market still remains marginal in 2007 (compared to what it could be). This contrasts sharply with the language of some vendors that had been prompt to portray themselves, in 2000, as the next Oracle for the Business Process Management System (BPMS) space... So what happened? Intalio, Leader in Open Source BPMS. RSSBus - A Really Simple Service Bus. Welcome to CruiseControl.NET - CruiseControl.NET.
After years of good collaboration with Thoughtworks, it appeared that Thoughtworks had less resources to spent for CCNet.
This problem came painfully visible when their site was hacked with a virus. It took a long time for the help page to come back up, and the build server is still not up.