Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Enterprise 2.008. Interesting times at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week. The conference has become the core of our little but growing industry. Recall if you will that it started as the Collaborative Technologies Conference in 2005, when organizer Jen Pahlka noted in the kickoff: Interop is the genesis of this conference, even the first shows had a collaboration thread. But most of Interop focuses on IT. Business side of collaboration is the harder problem to solve, the focus of this event and one of the goals is to credentialize the concept of collaboration. Shortly after, collaboration emerged as a strategic imperative for enterprises.
Vendor Sports A big change from back then is the vendor sports. The backchannel was particularly damning of Sharepoint compared to Lotus Connections (release 2.0 around the corner) and Microsoft got slammed again in a later panel. E2Open In stark contrast to the vendor sports and paid speaking slots was Enterprise2Open. Adoption and Markets. Process People » Blog Archive » Getting Tasks to the Right Parti. Skip to main content link. Accesskey S Skip to tab navigation link. Accesskey 1 Skip to sub navigation. Ibm.com Home Solutions Services Products Support & downloads My IBM Home Profiles Communities Blogs Bookmarks Activities Files Wikis Help Log In Browse Blogs My Blog My Updates + Tags, Authors and Additional information + Categories Business Agility Impact Business Process Management Application Infrastructure Connectivity and Integration Cloud and virtualization View as cloud | list.
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Business Process Modeling Tool Selection. Inside Architecture : Leaving technology out of requirements gat. I'm going to suggest a minimal way to gather requirements, one that produces a (minimum) requirements document in an iterative and agile manner. A little background In the systems space, it is common to write up a "requirements document" that attempts to capture all of the business requirements for a system. Doing so, of course, is a great example of BDUF and this runs into the YAGNI concept rather forcefully. My gut tells me to minimize these works of fiction, and to produce them in an automated and repeatable way. But what drives the creation of these things anyway? Let's look at that question. The problem with a requirements document is that we don't have a good practice, as an industry, for putting ONLY IMPORTANT STUFF into the requirements document. Let's focus on what matters. So, what do technical people need to know?
If you follow these ideas, and ask about a long list of features, and ask about various technologies, what will you get? I've got the tools that do it. A mortal’s guide to initiation « TINAG - This Is Not A Guide 2 I. Intalio is a wonderful, robust solution that is incredibly lightweight… but it also has a personnality, even a strong character sometimes. One of the common difficulties is to convince people that something like Intalio exists, that it works, and that is Open Source. Then, they’re ready to try, but there is no guide to follow. I’m a strong believer of constructivism but I’m also aware of the lack of time (or of patience) of experienced people. Therefore, I’d like first to avoid the frustration of others with Intalio. My goal is to decode bit by bit, in just several hundred blog entries how to find your way and become an Illuminati of Intalio. :-) First of all, download the Intalio plaftorm.
This normally requires registering onto their website. You should download the Intalio Designer and the Intalio BPMS server. In order to learn how to use it, please try to go through the Screencasts and Tutorials (basic) in the Intalio website. Later, try the Samples and the non-basic Tutorials. Process People » Blog Archive » Drive the Path (process and data.
Companies Embrace Promise of BPM to Drive Innovation. Your Career Deserves Online Certification From #1-Ranked Villanova Increase your status as a process efficiency professional with the newest member of the Villanova process improvement family: Business Process Management. BPM is unique because it creates process solutions on a broad, cross-functional, organization-wide scale, instead of focusing on a specific process. When you complete the 3-course Master Certificate in Business Process Management program, project and final exam, you’ll become a Certified Professional in Business Process Management (CPBPM). This is a professional certification that has industry-wide recognition. U.S. Villanova’s Process Improvement Family – Known Industry-Wide Business Process Management Business Process Management Look at the “big picture” of your organization’s many processes with the holistic management approach of business process management.
Six Sigma Six Sigma Project Management Project Management Business Analysis Business Analysis. BPM Intro מאת דפנה לוי. BPMS.info Le portail du management des processus - BPM - BPA. BPM-channel magazine BPM : Business Process Management ou Gestio. Article. Phil Gilbert | Perspectives in Process. I'm at the TED Conference in my annual attempt to escape the confines of making and selling software. It's a box, not a process, sometimes. And this year's lineup has pretty much exceeded expectations. Heavy emphasis on physics; I mean, when Amy Tan says "ambiguity is the cosmological constant" of her book writing process, you know that science is on the ascendant.
Here at TED, anyway. This is the third day. Today we just went from 9,000 feet deep (still 4,000 feet above the deepest parts of the ocean floor) to the top of the oldest redwoods in the world. Well, I come here to keep the entirety of the world - not simply my software world - in perspective, yet this year I find myself drawn further into the web of "process" - Lombardi-style. And so I see process everywhere. The other aspect of all this that's been interesting is the number of people who talk about the closer we get to actual creative process, the closer we get to simplicity.
At Lombardi, we believe process is the story. BPM Lessons Learned. Here is another lessons learned from my world, but this time the focus is BPM, not SOA. I have mentioned many times how we sold the business on BPM and SOA. After modeling the future state processes and creating a roadmap of projects based on a combination of business priority and service reuse, we took our business case to the finance department and secured funding for a number of high ROI projects. The funds secured were for procurement of BPM and SOA tools (BPMS, ESB, Data Services, etc.) and for capital labor to work on the various projects.
We also were able to justify two new positions in a new department in the business who is responsible for business processes. Sounds good so far, right? Well, we should have funded one more thing and that is an initiative to change our culture to be process centric. Is it a disaster? So the lesson learned that I would like to share is don't forget to invest in change management initiatives. Oracle buys BEA, but the app dev, SOA suites still conflict — SO. Riva Method. Macehiter Ward-Dutton: Articles & reports. Q&A: Gartner's Janelle Hill on the Future of BPM, SOA a. The drive toward model-driven application composition has Gartner considering two emerging concepts: Business Process Platforms and Integrated Composition Environments. Janelle Hill, a Gartner research vice president and lead analyst in the business process management arena, discusses the trends and implications for technology vendors and end-user organizations.You say Gartner has yet to make final decisions about the reports it will publish in 2008, but you also acknowledge that you're considering new concepts that could supplant the current BPMS (business process management suites) Magic Quadrant.
Why consider a change? What we're sensing is that the market is in transition, but we don't know whether that's to the broader concept of a Business Process Platform (BPP) or what we call an Integrated Composition Environment (ICE). It's really the convergence of model-driven tools. What, exactly, is a business process platform? And what is an Integrated Composition Environment? 1 of 2. BPMS Brasil. BPM HOJE. 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? Last week, Bruce Silver asked the critical question of "Roundtripping revisited". BPMN is a 300+ pages specification. How business process mapping saved an IT project. » SlideShare. Business Process Management (BPM) - BPM Strategies Magazine. Group: BPM Convergence: Workflow and Integration Meet in the Mid. Jim Sinur’s BPM Blog. Zoomerang. Do You Like Your Workflow or BPM Software? Itensil. 039;s Technology Leadership Forum 2007, September 25-26, 2007, C.
Functional or process oriented? Or is there a 3rd way? Now, with the increased attention to BPM and processes, many companies are asking themselves: should we organize through function or process? Some choose to stay in functional units, but increase the collaboration and create end-to-end governance and measurements (with often much politics).Some turn the company sidewise, and create a more process driven organisation. Of course, most of us understand the thoughts behind this. Functional:Pro's- Focus on competency- Easy to bind people - sharing the same work/chain unit- Focus on scale efficiencies- Relatively easy to measure- Relatively easy to understand Cons:- Loose of focus on the complete chain- Chance that units strive for suboptimal choices, that effect overall process effectivenes, efficiency and responsiveness (agility)- Difficult to implement new or changed processes- Pointing to each other when issues, no clear process coordinator Process: In my opinion, there is a third way, that combines best of both worlds.
Think business lego. Run better business processes with a BPMS, not a programmer - So. A few days back, my colleague Steve McDonald asked me a question that went something like: "Do companies need BPMS to make their processes work better, or can you just write custom applications that represent the process? ". Well obviously we both have a bias towards the BPMS, but I believe its for good reason - I have wielded a compiler at some point in my career and I can honestly say that the results were 'variable'. So we agreed that having the structure and tooling of a strong BPMS in place allows you to concentrate on the business problem you are trying to solve, rather than the mechanics of writing code and pure custom apps. Look at any organization and you'll see that business processes do run without a BPMS, as loosely organized paper and email based processes based around a custom Access database application.
Many low volume processes that we see in organizations, around processes in HR and Finance for example are commonly run in this way. Technorati tags: BPM BPMS. The Wrong Question for Process Discovery « Go Flow. There are some tips in the field of BPM that you don’t want to find out by trial and error. If you have done a business process improvement initiative, you already know that the first step is to model the process. In order to model the process, you must uncover what the process is, and this step is called process discovery. How to you discover the process?
You ask the people who work there, of course. The naive approach will be to identify the process participants, set up an appointment to sit with them and as “what do you normally do for your part of this process?” The “sunny day” process diagram is fairly clean and straightforward, and most people agree it is correct, but when you put it into use something very surprising happens. There is a better way.
BPM Day was a seminar to cover tips and techniques in Business Process Modelling presented by: Michael zur Muehlen, the Director for the Center of Excellence on Business Process Management at the Howe School of Technology Management. Business of BPM: BPM Lessons Learned. Business of BPM: ABPMP vs. BPMG. One of the things that I have talked about with people in St. Louis is getting a local BPM users group formed. There are eight St. Louis based companies with active BPMS projects (that I know about) and many more doing some process improvement efforts.
There are two national / international groups focused on BPM - ABPMP (Association of Business Process Management Professionals) and BPMG (Business Process Management Group). My opinion is that both of them can co-sponsor the St. As I looked at both these groups, I spent the money (<$200 in both cases) to join them. ABPMP: If you read the overview document, it says all the right things, and I believe they are focused on the right objectives. ABPMP news which had its last update in Sept 05 BPM Resources which is a good list of links Links to Chapter Presentations which has strong content but only 3 presentations from all of 2006 Member additional resources has 14 links from 2003-today Their principles are very active writing and blogging. Blog Archive » What I’ve learned about donor management. I’ve been helping nonprofits build databases for over a year now. I’ve worked with about 10 orgs of various sizes–the largest being about 20 staff. A big part of my work is mapping out how these groups do fund development.
Tracking donors, members, grants, and payments is a big part of what all nonprofits do. I sit down with each org and talk about how they raise money, so that I can understand the work in enough detail to be sure the database I build will support them in that work. Turns out, these groups raise money in pretty similar ways. What I’d like to share today is some process maps that describe donor management at these orgs. We’ll start with two maps that focus on taking a new donor prospect through the ask process. These process maps aren’t about technology at all–they’re about work and how it gets done.
OK, now some vocabulary about process maps. Activities are put in a “lane” for the person who is responsible for that work. So let’s look at our first process map: Fig 1. Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Seven Trends for 2007. Lombardi Gears Up for IPO. Michael Schaffner: A Rather Interesting Debate on "Whose Bu.