I have taken Phil Gilbert's suggestion to heart and stood up a new website BPMN Case Management where we can explore the possibilities for a case management modeling notation closely tied to BPMN... without re-fighting the whole BPMN war from the very beginning, as OMG seems inclined to do. Once the DNS sets up, it will be www.bpmncase.com, but for now you can reach it at www.methodandstyle.com/bpmncase. I've invited a bunch of people that I know, and who have expressed an interest in the topic, to be "
Thus, with unintended irony, did our former president illustrate the consequences of low expectations in the debate over No Child Left Behind. No Child's insistence on achieving a minimum competence in reading and arithmetic was scorned by many as too demanding, even "elitist," even though we all know that without those things both the child and the nation as a whole will suffer. Today, as BPMN 2.0 rumbles toward finalization, we're seeing the same bogus charge again from those who should know better.
BPMN 2.0 is heading for finalization. I've been a part of the team developing it, and it provides some really useful new features. You can get a look at what it adds and how to use it effectively at my 2-day course in Chicago April 8-9, Process Modeling with BPMN, hosted by BPM Institute. This is my full BPMessentials training and certification, updated with a look ahead to BPMN 2.0. Click here for pricing and registration.
I had good luck with my previous BPMN "request for information" posting, so here is another one. Is it valid to end a top-level process in BPMN with an error end event? In my training I say that it is not, but it is a gray area. An error end event in a subprocess throws a signal that is caught by an error intermediate event attached to the boundary of that subprocess, i.
I will be chairing an all new BPMS Track at BPMInstitute.org's upcoming BPM Conference in New York City at The Roosevelt Hotel (November 5-6). This track analyzes the latest generation of BPM Suites, and features an extended panel on November 5 in which leading vendors show how their offerings address key topics such as business-IT alignment, agility and time to value, end user experience, and optimizing business performance. We did this in San Francisco and it worked very well.
In addition to my 2-day class on Process Modeling with BPMN, I will be chairing an all new BPMS Track at BPMInstitute.org's upcoming BPM Conference in San Francisco (September 30-October 1). This new track is dedicated to matching BPM technology to your specific requirements and features, and features in-depth comparison of BPM Suite offerings. As a benefit of my participation, I have secured a limited number of Guest Passes* for BPMS Watch readers to attend on September 30, as well as a discounted rate of only $895* to attend both days (Sept 30-Oct 1) of the BPM Conference.
The team of IBM, SAP, and Oracle (augmented with a long list of new co-sponsors) submitted a revised version of their BPMN 2.0 proposal last week, and it is beginning to look almost real. I am going through the document and this post is the first of what I expect to be several on the topic. The revised BPMN 2.0 submission is a significant improvement over BPMN 1.x and offers hope of eventual rapprochement with the BPDM proposal.
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Bruce Silver
September 15, 2008
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Last fall I published my wish list for a few additions to BPMN. Typically these came from my BPMN training where a student would ask, How would you do this in BPMN?... and the spec provided no good answer. One of them, alternative entry points to a process, was explicitly addressed in the BPMN 1.1 spec in January 2008 using event gateway. For another one, the non-aborting "attached" event, I proposed a workaround valid in BPMN 1.
Next week I'm stirring the pot again on one of my favorite topics - BPMN and Business-Empowered Implementation. Not once but twice. On June 17 I'll be moderating a panel at the Intalio User Conference in San Francisco. I'm hoping for users who have been-there-done-that with Intalio's BPMN modeler. What is the business-IT interaction really like? What skills are required? What are the hard parts? The parts that went better than expected?
You're probably saying, what the heck is OCEB? It stands for OMG Certified Expert in BPM, a series of credentials issued by OMG to demonstrate levels of BPM competence based on exams. There are 5 levels - a fundamental level, business intermediate and advanced, and technical intermediate and advanced. It's not just about BPMN, but pretty wide-ranging across BPM as both a management discipline and a technology. Maybe too wide ranging for my tastes.
