Even though Microsoft introduced a native BPMN editor in Visio Premium 2010, I have continued to use the itp commerce Process Modeler Visio add-in in my training. For one thing, Microsoft for some reason based their tool, which launched at the same time as finalization of BPMN 2.0, on the outdated BPMN 1.2. For another, Process Modeler works with Visio 2003 and 2007 as well. Most importantly, it has my Method and Style validation built in, so in one click the user can see (and fix) not only violations of the BPMN spec but violations of the "
It boggles my mind that we are still having this debate, but there it is: Is BPMN compatible with ACM? The latest round started with a paper presented by Keith Swenson at a BPM conference, stirred up by Sandy Kemsley's review, and kicked into full riot by an ebizQ comment thread. The supposedly winning argument from the ACM side is that a doctor - the purported archetype of an ACM user (really?
I'm just back from bpmNEXT. From my perspective as the event organizer, it could not have gone any better, and the tweets seem to agree. Malcolm Ross @mrappian Great time at the #bpmnext event this week.. looking forward to next year Steinar Carlsen @steinarcarlsen #bpmNEXT - Thank you @bpmswatch and @nathanielpalmer for organizing a great BPM and ACM thought leader conference - http://www.bpmnext.com Miguel Valdes @miguelvaldes Back from #bpmnext. Amazing conference, speakers and discussions.
Because so many people were set back by weather-related issues in the past two weeks, we've extended the early bird discount for bpmNEXT registration until November 19. bpmNEXT is an exciting new event I'm hosting with Nathaniel Palmer next March 19-21 at Asilomar, near Pebble Beach in California. The event will showcase leading examples of the next generation of BPM-related technology - social, mobile, predictive analytics, the "internet of things", decision management, process mining, and more.
In a word, no. But ebizQ is trying to stir the pot. What should be in it? As expected, the dead-enders were loudest: Get rid of it altogether! Scott Francis has more patience for this sort of thing, and has a good summary of the thread. One of the more interesting suggestions was to split conformance requirements between the graphical notation and XML serialization. I think that is a good idea with real practical benefits for both end users and tool vendors, but not likely to sway anyone at OMG.
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.
