BPMN 2.0 is to be voted on in June with release around August/September and from all signs is likely to be passed as is. According to Bruce De Silver one of the big changes from an analyst point of view is event handling.
I, like I’m sure others, have been told by BPMN modelling vendors that events are a ‘system thing’ and shouldn’t be used to model a business flow. In any large scale process work I have done half the issue is differentiating the correct path through a process, to the exceptions. Whether the goal is removing exceptions for efficiency or showing
Of course BPMN 2.0 has many other advantages for those who wishes to execute process flows directly by a BPMS required attributes have been defined rather than the previous practice where each vendor had different names. In my opinion this can never be achieved, the process complexity needed for IT systems is far greater than business people need to know, or have to think about. This is particularly the case for the executives who we need the buy in from to get meaningful business change! Orchestration is an exception but the line between orchestration and workflow is forever hazy…
From rumours it seems OMG is trying to tie UML closer to BPMN, a move sure to push BPMN forever into the IT department domain and away from business users. But at least this will hopefully mean the end of BPEL!
I have been using the product on and off on trial it for a couple months but this article came about after a colleague needed to convert some Visio BPMN diagrams to something better in a hurry. There is nothing like a fast deadline to really put a product to the test.
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While ARIS is a fantastic product for large organisations, smaller groups or projects may not need it’s full capabilities. It is with this in mind, and the significantly reduced associated price tag, that I investigated the Blueprint product from Lombardi Software.
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Unfortunately, despite what looked like a really promising product in Hercules-X the Bennu Group is no more.
The work will however it seems will carry on as two separate organisations; the International Process and Performance Institute and Steve Tower’s group the BPGroup.
I have just finished watching a demonstration of Hercules X from the Bennu Group, it is a very different approach to Process Improvement. Basically it’s a communication tool to help illustrate processes that need improving and quickly visualising the results of doing it.
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At work we recently held a workshop on Enterprise 2.0; opportunities, advantages, etc. the same as many organisations are running through. While the workshops were really interesting, as someone who fairly often runs workshops I found it really interesting to watch the facilitators techniques and think about how we could use them.
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Today I received a regular magazine I receive as a supporter of Oxfam in Australia. Recently the magazine has been focussing more and more on Africa and regions of Australia where my interests lie in Asia and the Mekong delta. This issue though had a really positive sounding article about the how a new way of growing rice, System of Rice Intensification, is being used in Cambodia.
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I have just joined a new project and yet again it seems to be a failure waiting to be rescued, what can I learn for ones in the future?
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All good stories should have an introduction, so here is mine.
I have been working in Business Process related issues for far too many years and am seeing lots of patterns and gaps, enough they are worth writing down.
In the spirit of helping this field grow this field is my own small contribution with these ideas!
