Tweet Off-The-Shelf Versus Custom: Talking About Car Mats Great analogy for off-the-shelf versus custom. Think software. (tags: gartner) IBM Software Sales Veteran To Retire – Software – IT Channel News by CRN Sandy Carter moving from her position as IBM's VP of SOA marketing and strategy to VP of business partner sales. Not sure why [...]
Tweet SAP Network Blogs How SCRUM is a Lean methodology. (tags: software development agile)
Tweet Gantter.com – web-based project management alternative Cool! Looking very much like Google Docs and other web-based document editing apps, Gantter is a web-based project management app. Imports and exports MS-Project files. This would be really useful if you could use your Gmail contact list (for example) for resources and sharing, but this is a [...]
Tweet 12 Different Ways to Model Business Processes « Active Knowledge Modeling A brief description of several different process modelling methodologies. (tags: bpa) SAP Network Blogs Resources for SAP NetWeaver BPM on SDN. I'll be at the SAPPHIRE conference next month, so I'm doing a bit of a refocus on what's been happening lately with [...]
Tweet Social Nets and BPM: Jim Sinur quotes some cases of social networking inside enterprises, and attempts to get a conversation going on combining BPM and social software. I smell some new Gartner research coming; they should be taking a look at some of the other links in today's post. (tags: bpm enterprise2.0 socialmedia) Business [...]
Tweet BPM | BPM Software | Business Process Software | Process Modeler | High ROI Low TCO | Business Process Management | Savvion The podcast on BPM in a down economy that I recorded for Savvion a few months back, available on their website (free, but registration required). (tags: bpm)
Tweet IBM Enterprise Content Management Part 2 of the ECM CoE series, with the center of excellence services spelled out this time. (tags: ecm) IBM Enterprise Content Management Part 1 of a set of posts on an ECM center of excellence. I did a BPM CoE webinar recently, and there's lots of similarities here (as [...]
Tweet Influence Our BPM Conference Agenda Everyone loves to beat up Gartner for their BPM conference content – here's your chance to make suggestions on what you'd like to see there, directly to the conference chair. If you don't speak up, I don't want to hear you complaining later. (tags: bpm gartner) Dude, where's my [...]
Tweet More on keeping decisions and processes separate » JT on EDM Separating decisions and processes. Check out the diagram for a good reason why you don't want to code a decision tree in a BPMS, but there are some other important factors that James lists: rules often change more frequently than processes; process and [...]
Tweet A reader asks – how to document decision logic » JT on EDM Useful guidelines for documenting business rules in their various forms (and, like processes, there will most likely be more than one form/technology used). (tags: brm) RuleSpeak® || Let the Business People Speak Rules! Basic RuleSpeak 2.0 guidelines for expressing business rules [...]
Tweet 5 reasons to discuss failure | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com It’s essential to discuss how and why projects fail in order to avoid doing exactly the same thing in the future. Plus, there’s a certain amount of schadenfreude enjoyed by those whose failures are not quite (yet) as spectacular as those that they [...]
Tweet Rick Geneva » Blog Archive » Four Use Cases for the BPMN Signal Event Rick Geneva of Intalio walks through use cases for the signal event in BPMN — good detail. If he didn't require login, I might even comment on his posts. (tags: bpmn) Complex Event Processing (CEP) Blog » Academic CEP: Event-driven [...]
Tweet Download details: SharePoint Designer 2007 SharePoint Designer 2007 is now free, and downloadable from Microsoft. (tags: ecm) Here’s how decision management simplifies process management » JT on EDM Great example of why you want to externalize decisions from processes: building decision trees in process notation gets really confusing really fast. (tags: bpm bre) To [...]
Tweet Loraine Lawson: BPM + SOA = Serious Corporate Cost Cutting Potential Loraine Lawson manages to make it all the way through my recent webinar (tags: bpm soa)
Tweet ECM Vendors Throw in the Towel at Philadelphia Summit — CMS Watch "The "E20" group of major ECM vendors will conclude their summit meeting at the AIIM Expo today with a communiqué urging enterprises to permanently suspend efforts to manage content" — nice to see that some people still have a sense of humor [...]
