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Call for papers for CASCON 2010 — a great research-oriented conference on computer science and software engineering sponsored by the IBM labs in Toronto. This year, the dates don't conflict with the Business Rules Forum (as they have for the past couple of years), so I'll be able to attend again, and I'm looking forward to it.

Production Rule Representation (PRR) is important because it can "be used for interchange of business rules amongst rule modeling tools (and other tools that support rule modeling as a function of some other task)".

Lots of chatter recently about how BPM is converging with CRM, ECM, case management, social media and other technologies/methodologies: this discusses who we should be focusing on what we're trying to do, and come up with a suitable name (and hopefully, a catchy acronym) later.

A series of BPM webinars from SAP. It appears that some of these will be independent of SAP software solutions, although some of them will cover SAP NetWeaver BPM.

TIBCO's financials, which are touted as successful, although $72k revenue per employee sounds a bit low. In any case, it's obvious between TIBCO and Pega's recent results that there's money to be made in SOA and BPM.

A great collection of quotes of the week (and I'm not just saying that because I'm included ) — I hope that this is a weekly thing on Adam's blog. Not just about BPM: there are quotes about wikis (like mine) and microblogging as well.

The ProcessMaker blog (which I would enjoy MUCH more if it published full feeds) has been having a run down of BPM implementation pitfalls to avoid. The top 3 are published in this post: choosing the wrong system, not training your team, and forgetting to measure before-and-after KPIs in order to prove your ROI.

The beginning of a collection of most-asked questions about BPM, including "why do process modeling projects fail?" and "how do you model one process with different variations at once?" I'm thinking that the existence of the second question could be an answer to the first.

Why it's important to support the BPMN2.0 Process Modeling Conformance Class proposal by lobbying the vendors involved in the vote. Otherwise, all that interoperability that you think is coming with BPMN 2.0 might not actually be there.