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BPMN Method and Style Book Kindle Edition

I fretted about this for weeks but I finally pulled the trigger. My book BPMN Method and Style is now available as a Kindle ebook, compatible with Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle for iPad, or Kindle for PC. I got a lot of requests for this, especially international, so we’ll see if there is a market [...]

BPMN Method and Style Training March 5-7

There’s still space available in my BPMessentials live-onine BPMN Method and Style class, March 5-7 from 11am -4pm (US ET)/8am-1pm (US PT)/5pm-10pm (Europe CET) each day. No previous modeling experience is required, and you will come out of the training able to construct BPMN models that are not only correct but clear, consistent, and complete. [...]

BPMN Validation Tool – Improved by WebRatio

At the BPMN Workshop in Lucerne two weeks ago I presented a talk called “Fulfilling the Promises of BPMN 2.0.” The basic point was that the BPMN 2.0 specification by itself is insufficient to deliver on the standard’s two most fundamental promises: first, as a semantically precise process notation, that the meaning of the depicted [...]

Announcing 2012 BPMN Method and Style Training Schedule

Here is the schedule of BPMN Method and Style live-online training for 2012. The class runs on three consecutive days, tentatively Monday to Wednesday from 8am to 1pm US Pacific time, which is 11am to 4pm US Eastern time. However, some classes may be adjusted to be more convenient for Europe or Australia/New Zealand. If [...]

Book Now In Stock (mea culpa)

The good news is my book BPMN Method and Style 2nd edition, with BPMN Implementer’s Guide, is now showing In Stock on Amazon.com (not yet on Amazon.co.uk, unfortunately, which says 5-8 weeks). It was available for about 2 days at the end of October, and then I found about half dozen typos I saw on [...]

IBM Delivers BPMN 2.0

It was a longer wait than I expected, but in BPM 7.5.1, IBM is now providing real BPMN 2.0 support. I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet or look at the documentation – I think GA is later this week – but I got the briefing from the team. And I have [...]

More on Executable BPMN 2.0

I was expecting more feedback on my Executable BPMN 2.0 post. I did get a thoughtful and amusing rant from Alex Pavlov. He dismisses the whole idea of executable BPMN 2.0 as a cynical ploy by the middleware vendors that created it. Besides making some good points on the possibility of executable BPMN 2.0, he [...]

Executable BPMN 2.0

About 99% of the effort in drafting the BPMN 2.0 standard, and 95% of the bad rap it has received, relates to “executable” BPMN 2.0 models. It’s been over a year since publication of the final spec, and it seems that executable BPMN 2.0 tools don’t really exist yet. I hope I’m wrong. For years [...]

IBM BPM 7.5 White Paper

IBM is the big dog in the BPMS landscape. BPM 7.5 combines the old WebSphere Lombardi Edition and WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition (aka Process Server) in a single offering. More than two separate products in a single box, there is real integration under the covers, in the form of a shared Process Center repository. Find [...]

BPM and Case Management

The questions of BPM vs Case Management, process vs case, and – almost too horrible for some Case people to contemplate – BPMN extensions for case management – are getting all frothy again. Here is my take on the topic. 1. The question is BPM part of case management, or is case management part of [...]