The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard is changing the practice of decision modeling and management. Up to now, it has primarily been used to define model-based decision requirements handed off to developers for implementation in some other rule language. DMN is good for that, and actually most tools that claim to support DMN cannot [...]
I've been offline for about a month due to a change of location. After 15 years among the calming redwoods of Santa Cruz, I've pulled up stakes and moved home and office to the devil's own playground of Southern California. I used to be able to hear the whir of the hummingbirds. Now it's the [...]
I apologize for the inconvenience, but after a few months of difficulty rooting out a hack to my BPMS Watch site, I had to rebuild it on another host. Since I use BPMS Watch as my main website now, I changed the URL to www.methodandstyle.com instead of www.methodandstyle.com/wordpress. Maybe not the best idea, since bookmarked [...]
I am a little surprised at the scores on my BPMN self-test. Ten questions, four diagrams each, one of which is the correct answer. The scenarios are typical from real-world processes, and most of the patterns should be used routinely in process models. A couple of questions are a little hard, but I would have [...]
I'm trying to decipher Cordys chief strategist Jon Pyke's post today on the case management proposal at OMG. It's hard to tell what he's saying, but I gather things did not go well in Costa Rica. I could have told him that, based on the bmi thread beforehand. He casts as the villain "analysts and consultants [...]
The vote on BPMN 2.0 is not the only thing on the agenda at next week's OMG meeting in Costa Rica. There is also the release of an RFP for a new Case Management standard, authored by Henk de Man of Cordys. Response to the announcement of same on OMG's BMI mailing list has been [...]
Haven't we beaten this to death yet? Apparently not, if Keith Swenson and Boris Lublinsky have anything to say about it. The discussion is leading nowhere. Boris inadvertently sums up the pointlessness of it in his conclusion: The confusion about BPEL and BPM in general seems to keep growing in the industry. There is still [...]
I'm at the annual OMG BPM Think Tank event in Chicago and, to be perfectly honest, it isn't working any more. This used to be my favorite BPM event, an industry insider deal, just vendors and consultants - no users - talking about standards and how to move BPM forward as an "industry." You had [...]
I rarely disagree with Ismael, but I think his latest piece, in which he argues that a BPMS is the "right" way to build a Complex Event Processing (CEP) platform, is a little off base. All first-tier BPMS platforms today, not just those based on BPEL, can listen for events to instantiate a process, resume a [...]
The most interesting keynote at the Intalio User Conference was by Greg Olson, founder of Coghead, a BPM-in-the-cloud service that uses Intalio as the process engine under the covers. Coghead bills itself as a next-generation platform for situational apps, such as built today on Excel, Access, or FileMaker. Instead of professional developers, Coghead targets independent web [...]