3P: business Processes, Projects and IT People

Gartner's BPM magic quadrant 2010

2010-12-05T11:06:00.001-08:00

BPM vendors in 2010, in one blink: http://www.global360.com/download/mq/

Compare it with 2009 version:

http://bpmfundamentals.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/gartner-publish-bpms-magic-quadrant-for-2009/

No changes at the top - Pegasystems and Lombardi still in upper-left leader (visionary & able to execute).

BPM is a cultural issue, not a technical one.

2010-09-20T00:19:00.000-07:00

"BPM is a cultural issue, not a technical one." (K. Swenson)

Couldn't agree more.

http://kswenson.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/bpmn-2010-keynote/

BPMN for Open Office

2010-07-15T12:39:00.000-07:00

Something for OpenOffice users: simple shapes and shape parts for BPMN 2.0. Nothing fancy.

Download it from Sourceforge.net .

BPMN 2.0 shapes added to Visio stencil!

2010-07-14T04:05:00.000-07:00

Well ... couldn't sleep last night, so I dropped in some BPMN 2.0 shapes.

Plugin ver. 0.8 is now up-to-date with the OMG spec.

Download the BPMN 2.0 Visio stencil here.

Features: pure visual modelling, no process v&v, simulation and other burden.

If you use it, drop me some feedback!

Tomi

Updated BPMN stencil for Visio

2010-07-13T02:22:00.000-07:00

Dear all,

after a long time (almost three years), our stencil for drawing BPMN models in Visio has been slightly updated.

Quick changelog:

-There are connection placeholders on almost each shape,

-dataobject and events and xor gateway have bigger textboxes, to allow quicker modelling

After all these years and million process modelling tools in between, I still use it when the process model have to be created in a real time with the customer on the side.

Download it here (Sourceforge.net).

Have a nice day,

Tomi

BPM + Saas (Signavio)

2010-04-08T00:42:00.000-07:00

Dear all,

even better solution for online process modelling: Signavio (http://www.signavio.com/en.html)

It allows collaboration work on a process models, in a real time. Can the process modelling get better than this?

Online process modelling with BPMN

2010-04-08T00:37:00.000-07:00

Dear process modellers,

here is a great tool for process modelling in BPMN. You don't need to download any software, just use the web browser to access it: http://oryx-project.org/backend/poem/repository

For example, see the typical process model of lecturing: http://oryx-project.org/oryx/editor;bpmn#/model/631 and have fun.

ITIL for dummies

2010-03-01T01:02:00.000-08:00

Hello,

there is a great video overview of the ITIL.

Running IT services compared with running restaurant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBguassbAzo

BICERO, Business Informatics Center Rozman

2010-01-08T13:18:00.000-08:00

Hello,

let me introduce you my (BPM consulting) company: http://www.bicero.com

Services & Specialties: Business Process Management, Project management, IT gap analysis, Quality management, Analysis of the new technologies, ICT strategy planning, Design of ICT solutions.

Process modelling and BPMN

2010-01-08T04:15:00.000-08:00

Hello,

you can find great tutorial for process modelling in BPMN from dr. Jim Arlow on SlideShare.net:

Introduction To BPMN

View more presentations from jimarlow.

SOA is dead?

2009-12-25T03:04:00.000-08:00

Well, at least Google search thinks so (see picture below). In my opinion, every new technology / idea / methodology/ dogma /... must be useful and easy to use, to be accepted by users. When we think about SOA - it is useful no doubt, but current implementations by large vendors are far from being easy to use. If it ever becomes as easy as google sites for example, then the real breakthrough will happen.

Process modelling in 3D ?

2009-12-21T05:01:00.000-08:00

Hello processs modellers,

recently I've found this interesting approach to process modelling: Three dimensional BPMN modelling.

See the video at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BPMVE#p/u/0/A5wER2yoLuE

BR,
Tomi

A safe storage of digital documents in a shared safe location: a holistic perspective

2009-11-09T15:17:00.001-08:00

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

A safe storage of digital documents in a shared safe location: a holistic perspective

View more documents from Tomislav Rozman.

Are you managing your Business Processes?

2009-09-02T05:33:00.000-07:00

Well, my feeling is that there is a lot of buzz about BPM, but only a little work done already.

Here's the reality check:

Are you (your company) managing BPs or no one cares about it?
http://polls.linkedin.com/p/54771/wgaqj

Tomislav ROZMAN (Slovenia): Una conservazione sicura dei documenti digitali in ambiente sicuro: una prospettiva olistica

2009-08-30T13:52:00.000-07:00

And now something completely different...

Tomislav ROZMAN (Slovenia): Una conservazione sicura dei documenti digitali in ambiente sicuro: una prospettiva olistica

or Safe storage of digital documents : holistic overview

What do document management and BPM have in common? Well, except of technical aspets, almost everything. Document management and safe storage is not technicl problem at all, it is a 'process and organization problem'. We can have excellent storage system, Lampertz cell, no SPOF (Single point of failure), HA (High availability) system, but if we do not have well defined process and well defined responsibilities, what's the use of it?
The article describes multi-layer design of safe storage of digital documents: from hardware to business processes. It will be presented in Trieste, 9.11.2009, on IIAS conference.

Internal process reingeneering and CRM

2009-08-11T02:36:00.000-07:00

What I've recently found out is that BP modelling is not useful only as first phase of the BPM project and requirements gathering. It is also usefull as communication tool/language for internal work rules in organization. It is far more understandable for employees to have one A4 sheet of process model (in BPMN) sticked at their workplace as a pile of documentation.
Some time ago, we implemented new CRM process (work rules) for sales dept. and software solution (Microsoft Dynamics CRM). Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a framework, not out-of-the box solution. It can be frustrating for non-IT users, when they see all of the functionalities of the this tool. Moreover, the workflow is not defined out-of-the-box. Therefore, conceptual model of the workflow is needed. We created BPMN model of the CRM process before we started to tinker with CRM system. This idea proved successful, because we argued over the process model, not the tool, and spared some of the precious time of our programmers and CRM specialists. They've got well polished idea in a form of process model and the implementation and configuration of the Microsoft CRM went flawlessly.
If I sum it up: do BPM before CRM!

Finished BPM project...

2008-12-23T11:20:00.000-08:00

November was a though month. We have finished with our BPM mapping project for FARMLAND AND FOREST FUND OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA

Some brief info: 10 key process areas modelled using BPMN/POEM, ~100 subprocesses, ~1000 activities, ~300 events, ~50 roles/pools, information objects and flows - hard to count them all.

Detailed article will follow soon.

How to manage CRM/ERP/BPM project?

2008-11-03T00:09:00.000-08:00

Initiating and managing a Business Process Management project can be very complex task. Without a proper methodology it will surely fail.

To avoid missing the objective of such project, good practices should be followed:

-define goals of the BPM project (informatization, certification, optimization,...)

-acquire a commitment of the upper management

-educate (and reward) all included persons

-map the processes and gather information from the process owners by interactive workshops

-make 3 iterations of process polishing at most!

-make a project plan at the beginning!

(Power point presentation, in Slovenian Only. Contact me for the .pdf password)

Naslov predstavitve: Kako se v podjetju lotiti obsežnih projektov, kot so CRM, ERP, … ? S popisom poslovnih procesov seveda!

Avtor: dr.Tomislav Rozman

Kratek povzetek: Gradnje hiše se težko lotimo brez idejnega, gradbenega in izvedbenega načrta. Podobno velja za izgradnjo in vpeljavo poslovnih informacijskih sistemov v podjetje. Pred njihovo izdelavo oziroma prilagajanjem moramo zelo dobro spoznati poslovne procese v podjetju. Popis, modeliranje in analiza poslovnih procesov je eden izmed načinov izdelave 'gradbenega načrta', ki je predpogoj za informatizacijo.

Process Modelling - Patterns of most common mistakes

2008-09-21T05:36:00.000-07:00

Dear all,

we have identified and described most common process modelling mistakes and we have described them in the article, published in a book (2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook):

Analysis of Most Common Process Modeling Mistakes in BPMN Process Models Tomislav Rozman, LANCom, Gregor Polancic & Romana Vajde Horvat, University of Maribor, Slovenia

How to produce process model from CMMI-SW?

2008-07-01T11:21:00.000-07:00

Dear all,

Software standards are often too generic for practical use. If they are mapped to process models, they're far more understandable.

Based on our practical experiences, we have shown how to map key process area from CMMI-SW to BPMN process model.
Detailed description can be found in our article:

Modeling the standard compliant software processes in the university environment
Author(s): Tomislav Rozman, Romana Vajde Horvat, Ivan Rozman
Journal: Business Process Management Journal

Process Oriented Enterprise Modelling methodology

2008-01-21T05:51:00.000-08:00

Dear all,

if you're interested in process modelling, and you think BPMN is not sufficent for enterprise - oriented mapping, please check our methodology at: http://bpmnpop.sourceforge.net/

Tomi

Towars true process descriptions interoperability

2007-07-25T11:56:00.000-07:00

An idea how to transform the process model to process execution model is described in one of my early articles (from 2004):

Towards True Process Descriptions Interoperability

Authors: Tomislav Rozman, Romana Vajde Horvat and Gregor Polančič

Journal of Computing and Information Technology - CIT 12, 2004

The article describes a part of our research in the area of business process modeling, analysis and execution. It describes the current state of process languages and standards. It concentrates on the process model interoperability and portability problems, caused because of huge number of process modeling standards, which often do not even target the same conceptual level of process

modeling. It provides an idea how to bring together those standards, using process concepts mapping into Petri nets and incorporating the usage of process patterns. Transformation to strictly formal process languages has a potential to prove itself as a fair solution with the following advantages: the number of mappings among different process languages is reduced and the process model can be analyzed using proven Petri Net or general graph algorithms. Development of the approach is still in its early phase. Mapping rules tofrom process patterns are neither strictly defined nor trivial.