TweetRemember BPMG (later reincarnated as BPTG)? I wrote previously about the original troubles when Steve Towers and Terry Schurter (two of the key people at BPMG) left and started Bennu Group, a competing training organization. If that wasn’t bad enough, they also redirected the BPMG domain to their own website, in what many consider to [...]
TweetExeter’s Centre for Research in Strategic Processes and Operartions is partnering with BPTG (the part of BPMG that didn’t make off with the domain name) as part of their soon-to-be-launched Masters in Business Process Management. From the BPTG press release: The Masters Programme has 10 modules and a dissertation and can be completed over three years. The modules [...]
TweetOn the morning of October 12th, the BPT Group — which rose from the ashes of the BPMG — is having a general-purpose BPM chapter meeting in Toronto open to anyone interested in BPM. Although the agenda is heavily weighted in favour of a demonstration by Metastorm, who are hosting the event, it will be [...]
TweetThe past few months have seen strange happenings with BPMG. I wrote about the original hint of troubles, when Steve Towers and Terry Schurter jumped ship and Terry redirected the BPMG domain to his own competing website, then the follow-up a month later when BPMG appeared to have truly shut down. They’re not down for [...]
TweetJim Baird, who had organized the Toronto BPMG chapter meetings that I attended previously, also was a contractor to BPMG for delivering courses. With the recent demise of BPMG, Jim has stepped up to the plate and offered to provide courses for free to those who got stiffed by BPMG. From his recent comment on [...]
TweetReceived this afternoon from an email address at processperformance.com, unfortunately substantiating my prediction of a couple of weeks ago: Subject: BPMG / BPMV Ltd Chairman’s Final Statement I communicated with as many of the BPMG members as I could a short while ago about the unfortunate position with regard to the company. As I said [...]
TweetI received an email this morning about the upcoming Business Process Excellence Exchange (BPEE) conference organized by IQPC in London this October — obviously replacing the BPMG conference that they used to organize. The only problem is the speaker list, which has both Steve Towers and Terry Schurter listed as being with BPMG: You’d think [...]
TweetI’ve attended and spoken at a couple of BPMG conferences, as well as attending the new chapter meetings here in Toronto. I’ve never really understood the organization; some people refer to it as a “buyer’s club”, where membership just gets you discounted on their proprietary training and methods, and I since I’m not interested in [...]
TweetEarlier this month was the second meeting of the Toronto BPMG chapter, following a successful turnout at the first meeting. Unfortunately, this one fell on a Friday after a large snowfall when the city had warned people not to travel unless necessary, which encouraged many people to take a snow day in spite of it [...]
TweetAfter the successful first BPMG chapter meeting here in Toronto, there’s a second one planned for March 2nd. It would be nice if BPMG actually made some space on their site to advertise chapter events; you wouldn’t find this information if you weren’t on their mailing list (or one of my readers ). There is [...]
TweetA couple of weeks ago, I was at the first BPMG Toronto chapter meeting, along with 25-30 others: pretty good attendance for an initial meeting, although I think that 3 of them were from the host, webMethods, 2 were the speakers, and 1 from BPMG. Based on some later conversations, the split between vendors and [...]
TweetI was on the BPMG site today, specifically the articles launch page, and I noticed that they appear to be using a graphic that is identical to the Bloglines plumber (the page that Bloglines puts up when they are down for maintenance). Who’s copying whom?
TweetBPMG Toronto is kicking off with its inaugural meeting on November 29th, 8:30-11:00am at webMethods‘ downtown Toronto office. You can see all the details and express your interest at the upcoming.org link. The meeting is free and all are welcome, but you need to RSVP to Jim Baird if you plan to attend.
TweetI had several appointments and errands today, and I listened to podcasts as I walked around downtown Toronto. One of them was the Sound of Vision podcast from back in May wherein Ethan Johnson interviews me about BPM (starting at 21:00 in the ‘cast), and there’s one point where I get really passionate about the [...]
TweetI just received an email from a recently-graduated engineer in Germany, looking for advice on how to become a credible resource on BPM projects with only theoretical BPM knowledge and a lack of business knowledge — in other words, how to ramp up from being a newbie with a decent technical degree into an experienced [...]
Tagged GartnerTweetIf you missed BPM 2005 this week in London, you can attend the 3rd Annual Business Process Management Summit later this month in Las Vegas run by IQPC. BPMG is listed as a media partner and is providing only one speaker (according to the brochure), so this is in no way the same as the [...]
TweetAnother funny thing from yesterday at BPM 2005: at a BPM standards panel session that included representatives from BPMI, WfMC, OMG and OASIS, Dave Petraitis from OASIS took great exception to an audience member’s suggestion that a standard could be biased in favour of a particular vendor. C’mon Dave, why do you think that vendors [...]
TweetBetween the conference, friends, travelling and keeping up with the news from home, no time to blog until now. BPM 2005 is working out to be a very rewarding conference: some great presentations and networking with old friends, new acquaintances and BPM thought leaders who I have only ever met electronically before this week. One [...]
TweetWhen I posted about software testing, I never imagined that I would be so blatantly in violation of good testing principles: I added Google ads that were slightly too wide for my right sidebar, and on Internet Explorer, they made the entire sidebar shift to the bottom of the page after all the content. On [...]
TweetI’m headed for the BPMG conference in London. I’ll try to blog some daily notes about the conference; I’m staying with bandwidth-challenged friends, but there is wireless connectivity at the conference site. At most conferences, presentation materials are handed out on CD, which is my preferred method of receiving them since my paper filing space [...]
