We are about to launch version 6 of our BPMessentials BPMN Method and Style training across all delivery channels: live-online, live onsite, and web on-demand. The next live-online class, April 22-24, will be v6, and the web on-demand version should launch by the end of March. The new version of the training takes advantage of the new Process Modeler 6 from itp commerce, including the native model repository and the BPMN Element Ribbon in Visio.
I recently received the following letter: I am a Computer Science student and Software Engineer interested in scientific workflow technologies and BPMN2.0 modeling/execution semantics. If possible, I would like to ask for your kind opinion on a simple BPMN2.0 modeling issue I am wondering about. This issue is related to the following question: "is it possible to overwrite activity-task's properties with InputDataAssociations ?". Suppose we model a task T with dataInput dI and property P as follows: <task id="
Thanks as always to Sandy Kemsley for a detailed summary of all the talks. My review is more impressionistic. The goals of the program were these: Talk about something I haven't seen before Actually, SHOW me don't just tell me Spur my imagination And the program in the end met those goals. It was really really good. There were several themes in the presentations: lowering the barriers to business users; leveraging social networks and mobile devices; handling unstructured work; expanding the boundaries of process analysis.
For the past couple months I have been heads down working on bpmnPRO, a new gamified eLearning app. I described the rationale for it in a previous post. Basically it's a way to prepare for the BPMessentials BPMN Method and Style certification exam. But I expect there will be some demand from others who haven't gone through the training, and it's designed to stand on its own like Duolingo, the iPad app for learning foreign languages that it is loosely patterned after.
Students in my September BPMessentials BPMN Method and Style live-online class will get a free login to bpmnPRO, my new gamified eLearning offering. The class runs September 9-11 from 11am to 4pm each day ET, 5pm-10pm CET. Click here to register. bpmnPRO complements the lecture and in-class exercises with hundreds of exercises and puzzles covering the course material. Students earn points with every correct answer and "level up" as they progress.
I've been thinking for a while about how to further enhance my BPMN Method and Style training. Even though we spend a LOT of time in class on exercises using a BPMN tool, either itp commerce or Signavio, students really need more practice to learn the material. To double the number of exercises would add a full day to the course, not economically justifiable. Also, there is a huge difference in the speed of completing exercises from one student to the next.
Process innovation was a central theme of last week's IBM Impact conference - it took center stage in the Day 2 Main Tent - but the term BPM has seemingly been banished at IBM, replaced by "Smarter Process". Now BPM is just the name of one product in the larger Smarter Process marketecture, shown below. The Smarter Process "suite" is the white block in the middle, where BPM, together with Operational Decision Manager and Case Manager, are being extended to integrate with mobile, social, cloud, and big data, as well as with each other.
Together with Shelley Sweet of I4Process, I began doing a set of basic Process Mapping 101 training videos for Lombardi Blueprint several years back, and have updated it every couple years for IBM Blueworks Live. The latest iteration is now online, available for free whether or not you are a Blueworks Live user. In addition to the basics of how to get started in BPM - how to organize the project, staff the team, create the first high level map, and communicate with the sponsor - the latest version shows off more of the advanced capabilities of the tool, including modeling policies and decisions, and Blueworks Live's extensive collaboration features.
Once I had bpmnPRO, my new gamified eLearning app, done in Storyline, I figured integrating it with my Wordpress website would be easy, since Wordpress has a plugin for just about everything. But I had no idea what I was in for... I knew I needed the following: A way for users to try out bpmnPRO for free A way to allow users to self-register for full access with a credit card A way to secure it so that only registered users could access it A discussion forum available to registered users A way to track user completion progress and scores.
Perhaps the greatest failing of the BPMN 2.0 spec is the inadequate explanation of its most fundamental concept: process. That failure lies at the root of so much confusion and modeler error. A process in BPMN has four distinct aspects: as an "orchestration", as a collaboration "participant", as a container of activity performers, and as an actor in its own right. It is all of these things at once. As an orchestration.
