TweetFor my last session — I have to leave for the airport around the time that the roundtables start — I sat in on Pat Cappelaere of Vightel discussing workflows, Identity 2.0 and delegated authority using REST. He showed how lightweight protocols like ATOM — rather than SOAP — can be used to allow the [...]
TweetDoug Reynolds of AgilityPlus Solutions presented on critical success factors in a BPM implementation. I’ve known Doug a long time — back in 2000 when he was at Meta Software and I was at FileNet — and have had a lot of discussions with him over the years about the BPM implementations that we’ve seen, [...]
TweetJaakko Riihinen, head of enterprise architecture for Nokia Siemens Networks, spoke about business process architecture: a deep dive into the details of one set of models that they use in their EA efforts. He started with definitions of architecture, process and abstract modeling, reinforcing that a presentation view of a model is just a view, [...]
TweetThe first breakout session of the day was on connecting BPM, SOA and EA for enterprise transformation, with Robert Pillar of Microsoft. He’s talking about how compliance is the key driver to the coalition of BPM, SOA and EA, but that the coalition starts with holistic collaboration. There are barriers to this: Organizational barriers: IT [...]
TweetThe afternoon keynote was by Tom Koulopoulos, the well-known and well-respected consultant who founded Delphi Group and is currently also at Babson College’s think tank on business innovation. He’s worked extensively in the business process/knowledge management space, so I’ve tracked his excellent work and writings for years. He spoke to us today about innovation. Innovation [...]
Tagged innovationTweetThe disadvantage of a small conference is that speakers tend to drop out more frequently than you’ll find in large conferences, and this afternoon my first choice didn’t show. However, it had been a tough choice in any case, so I was happy to attend the session with Rob Cloutier of Stevens Institute of Technology [...]
TweetThere’s one huge problem with this conference: too many interesting sessions going on simultaneously, so I’m sure that I’m missing something good no matter which I pick. I finished the morning breakout sessions with Woody Woods of SI International discussing transitioning enterprise architectures to service-oriented architectures. He started out defining SOA, using the RUP definition: [...]
Tagged RUPTweetI met Robert Shapiro years ago, when I worked for FileNet and he was part of the impressive brain trust at Meta Software, but now he’s with Global 360 and here to talk to us about BPM and workforce management, which focuses on using analytics, simulation tools and optimization techniques together with a workforce scheduler. [...]
Tagged simulation, workforce schedulingTweetI always like hearing Michael zur Muehlen presenting: he’s both knowledgeable and amusing, and I’m sure that his students at Stevens Institute of Technology must learn a lot from him. Today, he discussed what every enterprise architect needs to know about BPM, much of which was focused on process discovery because of the link between [...]
TweetThe second part of the morning keynote was by Bill Curtis, who was involved in developing CMM and CMMI, and now is working on the Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM). I’ve seen quite a bit about BPMM at OMG functions, but this is the first time that I’ve heard Curtis speak about it. He started [...]
Tagged BPMMTweetI like coming to smaller conferences once in a while: although I usually have to pay my own way to get here, the networking tends to be much more real than at a larger one. In the 10 minutes before the keynote started this morning, I chatted with five people who I know, and had [...]
TweetHaving spent almost two months without getting on a plane, I’m back on the road for the next few weeks: April 22-23: Washington DC for the Architecture and Process conference April 29-May 2: San Francisco for TUCON, TIBCO’s user conference May 5-7: Orlando for SAPPHIRE, SAP’s user conference May 13-14: Chicago for BEA.Participate.08, BEA’s user [...]
