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Today is the half-year anniversary of BPMS Watch, time to reflect on how it’s gone, and where to go next. […]

Normally when the Ayn Rand references start flying, I head for cover.  But since Phil Gilbert’s rant on the futility of foisting an SOA primer on naive business managers tracked back to my post on what BPM on SOA would look like, I guess I’m obligated to say something.  Phil’s nominal beef is with the [...]

Ismael posts an interesting reader request on IT|Redux addressed, it seems, to both of us: Ismael, Bruce: Do you think maybe it?s time for experts such as yourselves to get together and establish a standard model for BPM 2.0 in simple, concise and hopefuly universally applicable terms that can be ported throughout various functions and [...]

InfoWorld just came out with a head-to-head eval of the two leading BRMS offerings, ILOG JRules and FairIsaac Blaze Advisor.  To sum it up, Blaze slightly outpointed ILOG overall, with better benchmark performance and documentation, while ILOG rated higher in rule management and developer tools.  The new version of Blaze is speedier than the old largely [...]

As if we needed more evidence that BPM and SOA are uneasy allies, one of Steve Jones’s SOA Anti-Patterns, widely praised in the blogs for their hilarious wit and insight, seems to me a perfect example of how some architects still view BPM’s top-down approach as worst practice, not best.  The “percolating process” anti-pattern is described [...]

I know nothing about the corporate turf wars surrounding BPM, so I hope someone out there can help my anonymous friend, who writes: I manage the business analyst group for our company (our firm is about $4 billion in revenue annually) ? I work in the IT department.  In a different department, they thinking of [...]

Richard Brown, an IBMer from across the pond, blogged recently about BPEL4People and took issue with my contention that it was too grandiose and after-the-fact to achieve wide adoption as a standard.  He tracked back to my original post in February, saying I'm increasingly of the opinion that standardisation often occurs too soon and that major revisions [...]

No I don't mean moblogging.  More like "even my 79-year old Mom is into blogging."  Not about BPM (that would be scary), but the more invigorating throw-da-bums-out-in-Washington variety.  So over the weekend we both went to the YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas, where 1000 of the top political bloggers and their subscribers -- along with [...]

I've been focusing a lot of my publishing and marketing -- monthly column, 2006 BPMS Report, BPMS training -- in the past year through BPM Institute, which is owned by Brainstorm, the conference group, and now I'm thinking about next year.  Which BPM portal do you think has the widest reach, most interesting stuff, is best to deal [...]

Also summaries of the roundtables.  Check out this from OMG.