BPMS Watch

BPM at IBM Impact

BPM took center stage on Day 2 of IBM Impact, which used to be a SOA/BPM event but somehow seems to have morphed into a cloud/social/mobile/collaboration event. Wait, isn’t that Lotusphere? It was sometimes hard to tell. The key BPM feature touted on Day 1 – identifying other process experts at runtime and contacting them [...]

Gartner BPM – Better This Year

Often the Gartner BPM conference seems to me the same-old same-old, but I have to say I am getting some valuable new perspective at this year’s event in Baltimore. The new wrinkle this year is what Gartner is calling iBPMS, the “i” meaning intelligent. It’s really shorthand for a number of new technology-based capabilities that [...]

BPMN Method and Style Class May 7-9 Features Improved “Method”

Our next BPMN Method and Style live-online (virtual classroom) training is May 7-9 from 11am-4pm ET, 8am-1pm PT, or 5pm-10pm CET. This class is the gold standard in BPMN training and certification. It teaches you not only the BPMN shapes and symbols you need to learn (and how to use them correctly!)… and which ones [...]

New BPMessentials Class: Starting and Organizing a BPM Project

I am excited to announce a brand new course under our BPMessentials training and certification brand, Starting and Organizing a BPM Project. It’s taught by Shelley Sweet of I4Process, a colleague who has been providing process improvement consulting for many years and who is really excellent. If you’ve taken my BPMN Method and Style class [...]

BPMN Method and Style Training: Last Chance for March 5-7; April Class Moved to May 7-9

We still have openings for our live-online BPMN Method and Style training next week. It runs Monday-Wednesday from 11am-4pm ET each day. Click here to register. Also, because of conflict with Gartner BPM Summit in Baltimore, I had to move the April class to May 7-9. Again, click here to register for that. Post-class certification [...]

TurboTax for BPMN

Today I read a terrific post from John Reynolds, IBM BPM Product Manager and author of the Thoughtful Programmer blog, entitled Tools for Subject Matter Programmers – Learning from Turbo Tax. Subject Matter Programmers are Subject Matter Experts who know just enough about Programming to craft their own solutions…. I’d like to see a world [...]

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 [...]