In a recent post (Improving BPMN Validation) I described the kinds of errors, not checked by my existing BPMN validator (including itp commerce implementation), addressed by my latest development efforts. This post outlines the approach. My tool is based on XSLT 2.0. It's not a language used by many developers, but it's not a bad choice if you are trying to generate a report (HTML or XML) from an …
I am excited to announce a brand new course under our BPMessentials training and certification brand, Starting and Organizing a BPM Project. It's taught by Shelley Sweet of I4Process, a colleague who has been providing process improvement consulting for many years and who is really excellent. If you've taken my BPMN Method and Style class or read the book, you know that its starting point is …
A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting at the Social BPM Summer School program in Como, Italy, hosted by Marco Brambilla and colleagues from the Politecnico di Milano. My topic was extending BPMN to accommodate Social BPM. It was motivated by recent papers by Marco and others on this subject that, to my thinking, were inconsistent with features of BPMN that must be respected in any …
Today I read a terrific post from John Reynolds, IBM BPM Product Manager and author of the Thoughtful Programmer blog, entitled Tools for Subject Matter Programmers - Learning from Turbo Tax. Subject Matter Programmers are Subject Matter Experts who know just enough about Programming to craft their own solutions.... I'd like to see a world where Subject Matter Programmers can tackle building …
Whether you are simply trying to document an as-is process, analyze it for potential improvement, create business requirements for an IT process solution, or design an executable process in a BPMS, you need to be fluent in BPMN. Today BPMN is the critical foundation skill you need for anything you do in BPM. It has the reputation of being "hard" - in some respects, deservedly so - but that's …
It took a bit longer than we hoped, but the program at bpmNEXT 2013 is now set. bpmNEXT, which takes place March 19-21 at Asilomar Conference Center on the Monterey Peninsula, is not your typical BPM conference. It's a technology showcase spotlighting the next generation of BPM software innovation. No how-tos, best practices, or case studies, just a fast-paced series of demonstrations of new …
All this hubbub about BPMN and case management, would doctors and lawyers use it, and other nonsense... They could learn to do it, but that's not the intended audience. And it would probably surprise some to know that technical developers are not the primary audience, either. So who exactly is BPMN for, and why do they use it? In my experience, the main purpose of BPMN is to document, analyze, and …
It was at one of the early Think Tanks, the one where OMG suddenly revealed that BPDM, their process definition meta-language based on, I think, string theory, would be renamed BPMN 2.0, that the intention to support interchange of BPMN graphics was announced. And I recall a spirited barroom discussion with the editor of the BPDM spec, an energetic young Parisian, in which I insisted that graphics …
Have training budget left for 2012? Use it or lose it! There are still seats left in our next BPMessentials BPMN Method and Style live-online (virtual classroom) training December 10-12 from 11am-4pm ET, 8am-1pm PT, or 5pm-10pm CET. This class uses Process Modeler for Visio, a BPMN 2.0 add-in to Microsoft Visio that has Method and Style validation built in. If you can't make that one, we're doing …
Summer will be over soon, and time to get back to work. Start the season off right by sharpening your process modeling skills. The next BPMN Method and Style live-online class is September 5-7 from 11am to 4pm ET (that's 5pm to 10pm in Europe) each day. You'll learn how to create business process models that are ... Correct, according to the BPMN 2.0 standard Clear, revealing the process logic …