Yesterday was my first time in a BPM-Club Workshop here. I found the evening very interesting and could bring some interesting aspects in the field of process-oriented management for me.

After an introductory introductory round of the attending persons Fr bream, the company has introduced WILO. This was not part of the BPM for short. In preparation for the workshop was presented as the subject of BPM WILO currently handles. There were specific examples shown and discussed current problems. Following moderated Fri bream very skillfully the workshop. For the evening was the most important question: What makes a living process management?

In the first round was very open-minded assessment made as a personal BPM alive in their own companies (with major consultants when their clients) to date. The experiences of the participants here are very different from the "half dead" BPM to BPM vigorous impressions were all represented. This of course encouraged to discuss the differences and we have gathered together some of the characteristics of a living process management and beneficial or detrimental practices. By the mixed group of participants and the frank and respectful approach quickly led to constructive cooperation. As I come more from the technical area of ​​BPM, I could follow with great interest the various types of process experts, who represented her experience in the organizational implementation of process management.

Very positive to note is that there really was a real workshop. None of those present tried to exploit this platform to market their own services. There were not only local consultants, but also in-house - BPM'ler other companies. A little has unfortunately missed the representation of the user-side. According to Mr. Schnägelberger this is usually not the case, since 40% are users of the BPM-Club members.

I'm looking forward to the next workshop of the BPM-Club in early September in Cologne, and thank you again to Mrs. and Mr. Bream Schnägelberger for the successful event.

In the third part of my tip series on Business Process Management I would like to address a few key points about process modeling and process design. Since forming in any BPM project at least one process model, the foundation stone of the project is extremely important that the quality of process models is also fair.

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It sounds very exciting new features which should be implemented in Intalio BPM until the spring of 2011:

• Mash-Ups
• Emulation Process
• Process Simulation
• BPMN 2.0 Execution (as I have here had suspected)
• and much more ...

The roadmap is complete on the new page by Intalio to find.

In the second part of my tip series on Business Process Management I would like to address fundamental project management issues: strategy, goals, communication and risk management.

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A long day comes to an end. Today I was a guest at the 5th PSD of GFO (www.gfo-kongress.de). In 3 parallel streams were presented by the various BPMS vendors. Each manufacturer had 45 minutes time to refer to one of three topics. The first theme was modeling and documentation. Topic two Topic three was SOA and human workflow and process portals. I've mainly seen the presentations on human workflow.
I'm surprised how far the tool manufacturers are now. All of the products were exclusively zero-coding solutions . At the core of the BPMS hardly any differences can be discerned. All support versioning process, roles, documents, attachments, and various interfaces to other systems. But the devil is in the details. Some of the tools come along with self-designed modeling notations. Unfortunately, I also find that some of the presenters of process modeling had to be not much of a clue (Who, please call an activity "superior "???). Generally, the greatest differences were found in the modeling. While some tools need to be modeled in the very technical process models (are almost model-view controller), other manufacturers can continue and there will be very close to passing business processes to the engine (for example on Xpert.ivy or Appian ), or even model takes into account different levels (as with inubit ).
First I have now only time to process the whole impression. There is no compact way over such a large number of products to inform. Some of the tools I'm going to look at in the next few weeks, certainly not more accurate.