Ron Tolido of Capgemini presented on the case for an open methodology for business analysis. There’s a big component of standardization here, particularly a shared language (terminology, not necessarily natural language) to enable collaboration. He considers the core competencies of business analysis to be information analysis, subject matter expertise and business process management, there’s also [...]
Kathleen Barret of the International Institute of Business Analysis discussed how the role of Business Analyst moved from assistant Project Manager and scribe to the focal point for understanding and articulating the business need for a solution or change. She started by talking about why there is such a strong case now for business analysts. [...]
Foote presented some interesting – but for this primarily Canadian audience, not completely relevant – statistics on US unemployment; he added the comment “I assume it’s the same in Canada”. Would have been good if he had actually taken 5 minutes to research our job market before presenting here, because there are some significant differences, [...]
I still haven’t posted my notes from yesterday – I made the mistake of not bringing my laptop yesterday, and my notes are trapped in my paper notebook until I get a chance to review and transcribe them. I only caught the last 10 minutes of Minaz Sarangi’s presentation due to a meeting elsewhere, but [...]
I was already planning to attend the Open Group Conference in Toronto next week to catch up on what’s happening in the enterprise architecture space, and now I’ve been invited to join Dana Gardner’s panel on Monday morning, which will also be recorded as a podcast. The panel is on architecture’s scope extending beyond the [...]
I recently had a briefing from The Open Group’s CEO Allen Brown and Judith Jones, CEO of the UK-based consultancy Architecting the Enterprise, on the new version of the TOGAF enterprise architecture framework announced today. For those of you not up on your enterprise architecture, TOGAF is a product of The Open Group, a standards [...]
Terry Lee, MEGA’s VP of North American operations, gave us an overview of MEGA, both in terms of their business process analysis and enterprise architecture capabilities. He stated the real reason for using a BPA tool, rather than just the modeling environment within the BPMS, is the ability to analyze the processes within a larger [...]
Jaakko 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, [...]
The 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 [...]
The 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 [...]
There’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: [...]
I 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 [...]
TIBCO is holding a series of seminars in various cities, and today they’re in Toronto, where I happen to be at home for a few weeks. Amazingly, there’s free wifi in the Park Hyatt meeting rooms, something that I never expected We had a welcome from the regional VP, Craig Byar, and an overview by [...]
I saw Elise Olding speak at the September conference together with Bill Rosser, and I wasn’t completely impressed, but I think that she was fairly new to Gartner so wanted to take a second look. She’s focusing on three issues in this presentation: How should users assess organizational readiness? How should you initiate BPM and [...]
Coincidentally on the same day that Todd Biske and I start collaborating on the BPM, SOA and EA calendar that you can find on both our sites, I saw this amazing post (linked from the Google Operating System blog) showing how to map a Google calendar’s events on a Google map, with a bit of [...]
Todd Biske, whose blog I read regularly, announced last week that he was going to publish a Google calendar of BPM, SOA and EA events, I invited him to join the one that I’ve been running for a few months. During the time that I’ve had the calendar active, I’ve added about 10 other authors [...]
Metastorm announced today that they’ve acquired Proforma. Strangely, the Proforma URL already remaps directly to the Metastorm site and the products are already relabelled as “Metastorm ProVision”; most acquired companies keep their own site and brand visible for a while so as to not freak out customers who haven’t heard about the acquisition yet. I covered [...]
We’re starting to wind down a bit, and many of the east coast people have taken off already to avoid the red-eye flight home so the audience is getting a bit sparse. Those of us with presentations this afternoon, however, are still here. First after lunch is a panel on BPM & SOA, and how [...]
For the first breakout session of the day, I attended Ken Orr‘s talk on Business Process Driven Enterprise Architecture. He started out with some observations: improving business processes is essential for enterprises; business architecture is critical; modelling is critical; and business processes are hard to manage in the real world and especially in big organizations. Nothing [...]
The second day started with a keynote by Daryl Plummer, BPM/SOA Elixir (unfortunately, I missed the breakfast session with Michele Cantara about the BPMS market, but I ended up in a fascinating discussion about requirements collaboration using wikis with Jason Klemow, and the concept of subscribing to processes with specific attributes in a BPM with Dennis [...]
