Our BPMessentials BPMN Method and Style live-online class July 29-31 takes advantage of improvements in the Signavio BPMN editor. Signavio is a cloud-based environment providing collaboration and a team repository, so there's nothing to install. You just connect with your browser, and go. A key reason why we can use Signavio for the BPMN training is it has the Method and Style validation rules built in. That's great for students, because being able to see style errors in real time while you model helps not only to clean up the models but is remarkably effective in help them remember the rules.
I recently received the following from a former student in my BPMN Method and Style training: "I'm trying to find some rules regarding when pools should be shown as a black box with message flows to the pool boundary or multiple white box pools with message flows connecting events/activities within the different pools. From what I have seen, it seems that the multi-pool method can be used when showing interaction between different processes and black box pools are used to show external process participants.
One of the things I love about Ismael Ghalimi is he is an absolute nut... in a cool, brilliant way. He launched the modern BPM era about 10 years ago (BPMN was one result of that) but his company Intalio never quite reached escape velocity. Sometime last year he started a new venture STOIC, a tool that allows end users with no more than Excel-formula skills to build mobile/web apps. There is a "
Q1 marks the start of BPMessentials' 7th year of BPMN training. Most of those classes have used Process Modeler for Visio from itp commerce as the BPMN tool, but we've now added a strong alternative in Signavio. Signavio is a cloud-based BPMN editor and team repository with a strong presence in Europe, and now entering the US market. Like the itp tool, Signavio supports Method and Style validation directly in the editor, so I can use it for the post-class certification exercise so important to the BPMessentials learning model.
One of the best features of the BPMN Method and Style training is the post-class certification. For most students, this is when the training starts to really take hold. There are two steps to becoming certified. Step 1 is an online multiple choice exam, similar to other certifications. But the bigger value is Step 2, in which students must create a BPMN model following the Method and Style principles and model structure taught in the training.
We still have openings for our live-online BPMN Method and Style training next week. It runs Monday-Wednesday from 11am-4pm ET each day. Click here to register. Also, because of conflict with Gartner BPM Summit in Baltimore, I had to move the April class to May 7-9. Again, click here to register for that. Post-class certification is built into the price of both classes. Learn how to use BPMN correctly and consistently across your organization.
There's still space available in my BPMessentials live-onine BPMN Method and Style class, March 5-7 from 11am -4pm (US ET)/8am-1pm (US PT)/5pm-10pm (Europe CET) each day. No previous modeling experience is required, and you will come out of the training able to construct BPMN models that are not only correct but clear, consistent, and complete. The class includes hands-on exercises in class using Process Modeler for Visio, an add-in to Visio from itp-commerce, as well as post-class certification.
The good news is my book BPMN Method and Style 2nd edition, with BPMN Implementer's Guide, is now showing In Stock on Amazon.com (not yet on Amazon.co.uk, unfortunately, which says 5-8 weeks). It was available for about 2 days at the end of October, and then I found about half dozen typos I saw on close reading. I thought I would just fix right away, so that a bunch of 'imperfect' books would not go out.
Clay (Coat o'Paint) Richardson and I have agreed to disagree about whether IBM Business Process Manager's having two process engines is a bad thing (sez he) or a don't-care (sez I). In the analyst session at Impact today, it wasn't really clear if the two-engine approach is the long-term answer or just all they can do for now. I don't think it matters all that much, but Clay got me thinking about where they "
Yesterday I got a look at SAP's BPM v7.3, now in "ramp-up" (extended beta). I hadn't heard much lately about SAP in the BPM area, so I was really surprised to see how far they have come. The new offering, called the "Process Orchestration Solution", combines NetWeaver BPM, focused on human tasks, and NetWeaver Process Integration, which provides SOA, ESB, adapters, and Enterprise Service Repository (ESR). Unlike, say, Oracle, who (today) sells BPM as general-purpose middleware, SAP makes BPM an application extender.
