If you’re an old consultant like me, when you hear the phrase ‘process modeling,’ you probably think of a group of people in a stuffy conference room, arguing over how …
Agile at scale: Architecture in the Age of Complexity
There is no doubt that the agile trend is having a profound effect on software development practices, as well as on the organization of IT departments and beyond. The enterprise …
A Packet Of Seeds And A Shovel Is Not Gardening
Organisations might have many of the components parts of good process-based management, but still struggle to make it work—a packet of seeds and a shovel is not gardening. This paper …
Robotic Process Automation
What do we mean with Robotic Process Automation. Is this just the execution of a regular business process by a robot instead of a human workforce? And therefore RPA does …
How A Business Analyst Can Help Identify and Fix Problems With Your Company’s Business Processes
As a company, you need business processes. With them, you can define the set of activities that’ll be required to be completed to achieve your business goals. Not only that, …
The Future of Business Driven Software Development
It contains diamonds, boxes, arrows and affects customer experience – what is it? No, it is not a wedding ring … it is a flowchart to predefine workflow. Pre-defined workflow …
Practical Process: All in the Mind
Too many BPM initiatives fail. We’ve got to do better. In this Column, I discuss an important area where considerable improvement can be realized. Process-based management is not achieved and sustained …
A Great Work Culture Demands More than Fixing Bad Processes
I have found that the word “process” can have a very polarizing effect on people. There are those who like to follow a process and feel lost when one is …
Interview with Gero Decker, CEO of Signavio
Gero Decker, co-founder & CEO of Signavio, tells us about his experience as entrepreneur founding a BPM start-up and shares a piece of advice he received early in his career. …
Business Process Modelling Patterns
Reusable process model fragments for business users. The idea of a pattern language, which originates in a 1977 book about buildings and their architecture, translates easily to other kinds of …
Synthesizing your Architecture’s Strategic Guidance
Introduction In the first article of this series, I discussed the current interest in Business Architecture that has been brewing in the last little while and also discussed some of …
Putting Process at the Centre of Business Management
Enabling the increasingly impossible demand to do even more with even less. We traditionally manage organisations via the template laid out by the organisation chart. Yet not one of the entities …