Le "Carte" di Phil

Phil Gilbert, president di Lombardi Software, come promesso durante il Driven 2008, ha iniziato a pubblicare una serie di post (7) sulla governance di progetti BPM. Phil le definisce le "carte dei diritti e dei doveri" .

In inglese Charter significa: "a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation"

Le carte che verrano pubblicate saranno:

• Charter for BPM democracy (access, visibility, dialog)
• Charter for BPM budget transparency: top down, bottom up, peer review - ex ante, ex post
• Charter for BPM “conflict situations” (BPM and SOA, interface definition)
• Charter for BPM investment (maintaining the infrastructure, upgrading, maintenance)

Per accedere ai post di Phil cliccate qui

Per accedere al primo post (On BPM Governance) cliccate qui

Per accedere al secondo post (The five charters of BPM Governance) cliccate   qui

Lesson learned...

Dal Driven 2008, Toby Cappello ha voluto condividere le 10 lezioni apprese sul BPM nei suoi anni di attività come responsabile del professional service in Lombardi :

1. Remember metrics - think about them early - don’t undervalue reports
2. Don’t underestimate integrations and what it will take to do them
3. Phase is not a four letter word - “one and done” is not okay
4. Requirements documents are not process analysis - leverage process analysis skills early
5. A project longer than 90 days is not a failure - some processes are too complex for just 90 days
6. Java (.NET) developers are not ALL you need
7. Self-sufficiency requires dedication and commitment
8. Fund to Value - funding should reflect that the long term goal is to go from projects to programs to culture
9. Collaboration between business & IT is vital - playbacks, playbacks, playbacks
10. Ownership - Processes are business-owned

Per leggere un riassunto della presentazione cliccate qui oppure qui per la cronaca di Sandy Kemsley.

Posizionamento Teamworks e Blueprint

Dalle parole del "papà" di Teamworks e Blueprint, Phil Gilbert durante la sua presentazione al Driven 2008 a Austin::

Teamworks is positioned as a platform for BPM execution:

• Multiple authors working together on dozens of simultaneous process applications
• A new paradigm for source control and deployment
• Built for the implications of massive asset re-use

Blueprint is positioned as a platform for BPM communication:

• Creating a culture of process information
• Rich analysis and diagramming for experts
• Rich documentation for authors and readers alike  

Webinar il 25 giugno

Il 25 giugno prossimo Lombardi terrà un webinar dal titolo:

"COME SPIEGARE IL BPM AI VOSTRI COLLEGHI IN 15 MINUTI"

Il Webinar si propone di rispondere alle 3 domande base:

Typical Problems – What are some common challenges companies typically face that can be solved by BPM?

What BPM Is and Is Not – It's not just modeling. It's more than just workflow. It's not just another IT data integration technology. It's a new way of operating your business.

Value of BPM - What key capabilities are you missing today that BPM will deliver?

Per partecipare cliccate qui.

Dal DRIVEN 2008

Rod Favaron, presidente di Lombardi Software, all'apertura del meeting annuale ha presentato i "numeri" di Lombardi, eccoli:

• Lombardi now has 225 Teamworks customers
• There are now over 3,000 Blueprint accounts
• Lombardi has a corporate presence in 24 countries
• Blueprint is now being used in more than 95 countries
• And Lombardi now has over 50 partners worldwide

Per vedere anche alcune foto visitate il blog Lombardi qui.

WELLS FARGO riceve un premio per BPM

Wells Fargo è stata premiata tra le aziende che hanno creato nuovo business attraverso l'innovazione e la tecnologia.

Il premio è organizzato annualmente dalla rivista CIO ed è denominato " 2008 CIO100 Awards"

La motivazione è la seguente.

""Wells Fargo Financial used Business Process Management (utilizzando Teamworks di Lombardi)  along with agile software development to reduce the time required to redesign its new-dealer setup process and redeploy it back into production from more than a year to less than one month. The process-focused, iterative development approach reduced the amount of code Wells Fargo  needed to develop and maintain it also provides a better framework to ensure that business users and IT are on the same page. Increasing the role of the business analyst in the development process was a crucial aspect of WFF's success""

Per scaricare il case study di Wells Fargo, appena pubblicato da Finalcial-i,  cliccate qui.

Nel case study l'intervistato (Gene Rawls, CEO di Wells Fargo Financial) dice:

"Suddenly we have all this performance data out of using the software.
Even though it’s still paper, it’s all tracked through the BPM and we
know workload and work volumes"

Per seguire in diretta il DRIVEN 2008

Sandy Kemsley è al Lombardi Driven 2008 e pubblica la cronaca del meeting in diretta.

Per seguire il meeting cliccare qui.

Nuova versione di Blueprint

Riprendo dal blog di Lombardi l'annuncio della nuova versione di Blueprint (vi ricordo che si può iniziare ad utilizzare gratis Blueprint registrandosi qui):

""Today I’m proud to announce the availability of the Summer ‘08 release of Blueprint! In the Spring ‘08 release, we delivered what we feel is the best process diagramming tool on the market, online or off. Over the last two months we’ve focused on improving the “other half” of process documentation — the standards and procedures, narratives, and data that make up the details that live behind the picture of the process. Let’s take a look at the improvements in depth:

• Rich Wiki Editing Of Process Documentation: Blueprint now provides a rich, wiki-style experience for filling out the details of your process. You can link to external documents, embed images, and format your documentation any way you please. Already have something written up in Microsoft Word? No problem. Just paste it in and we’ll leverage what you’ve already done.

• Printable Documentation View: Once you’ve gotten all of your standard procedures entered into Blueprint, you need to be able to effectively leverage them. You can now generate an attractive printed version of your documentation with a click of the “print” button.

• Improved Process Details: We’ve take the process details pop up windows and completely revamped them to improve their usability. We think you’ll find them much easier to both edit and use to present your content. And they look great too!

• Process Data Export to Excel: Once you’ve entered your data into Blueprint, it’s important to be able to leverage it in any way you see fit. Now you can export your process data in a tabular format to Excel so you can slice and dice it, create PivotTables, or just share it with your friends in the finance department.

• Improved Diagram Layout: In the past, we wasted countless hours in Visio making sure our boxes and lines were all straight on our process diagrams. With Blueprint all of that tedious layout work is handled for us automatically. In this release, we’ve made some tweaks here and there to make your diagrams look better than ever.

We’re constantly working to improve Blueprint. Try out the new release and send us some feedback. Your input helps us shape our future releases and enables us to build the best tool possible for your needs. And if you don’t already have an account, make sure you sign up today!""

Virtual conference on BPM

Il 18 giugno è organizzata da eBiz una Virtual Conference sul BPM.
Qui i dettagli su come fare per partecipare.

Webinar on-demand

Sul sito di Lombardi  sono disponibili una bella serie di webinar che possono essere seguiti a proprio piacimento.

Ecco l'indice (cliccabile)

• How to Analyze A Process for Improvement
• Blueprint Spring '08 Release: Diagram in Half the Time
• 5 Tips for Managing Change on Your BPM Project
• Webinar: How Insurers Are Using BPM Today
• A Scalable Approach to Discovering Your Enterprise Processes
• CIO Best-Practices for Process Improvement - The Lance Armstrong Foundation Case Study.
• Improving Development and Integration Agility
• Getting Your Workflow/BPM Project Budgeted in 2008
• Building A Business Process Management Roadmap
• Driving SOA From the Top Down Using BPM
• Are You Ready for On-Demand BPM?
• Starting BPM the Right Way – Blueprint Product Launch
• BPM and Microsoft Office - Bringing Process to the People
• Integrating BPM and Lean Six Sigma
• My BPM Success Story: Boundless Network
• My BPM Success Story: Sprint Billing Disputes and Adjustments
• My BPM Success Story: Hasbro Extending SAP with BPM
• My BPM Success Story: Pulte Managing Better Through Visibility

BPM news n.4

E' in spedizione il n.4 del bollettino BPM News. Lo potete vedere nella barra sinistra.
Ed ecco i contenuti dei numeri pubblicati ad oggi.

Grossi cambiamenti in BEA

Dal blog The Register:

"BEA Systems' AquaLogic service oriented architecture (SOA) business, assembled through a multi-million dollar M&A splurge, is being dismantled it seems"

Si cominciano a vedere gli effetti dell'acquisizione da parte di Oracle.

Leggete qui il post originale da e qui i commenti di Sandy Kemsley

Cambiamenti in BEA

Come indicato nel post di Bruce Silver il direttore marketing del BPM in BEA ha lasciato la sua posizione. Ecco le  parole Di Jesper Joergensen dal suo blog:

NEXT STEP: LIFE AFTER BEA

Oracle completed its acquisition of BEA in the beginning of May and I decided to take the opportunity to move on and look for something new after 5 1/2 good years at BEA.

I am Director of Product Marketing for BEA's Business Process Management products. I have been with BEA since 2003 and have covered product marketing for many of BEA's WebLogic products over the years."

Sul futuro di BPM in BEA/Oracle

Interessante post di Bruce Silver sul futuro della suite BPM dopo l'acquisizione di BEA da parte di Oracle.

Ecco cosa ne pensa Bruce Silver