Leonardo Consulting Newsletter - July 2011
In this issue:
Should we use EPCs and/or BPMN?
Independent review compiled by Leonardo Consulting Intern Andre Fournier and edited by Marco Fargnoli, Senior Consultant and Team Leader Leonardo Consulting
As a business person, you usually hear these two modelling notations tossed around in meetings and conversations around ‘process’, or from your process-oriented colleagues on the other side of the ‘fence’. Unless you are a business process management (BPM) professional, or have done modelling in the past, the difference or similarity of either one is not apparent. At the risk of being on the receiving end of a detailed monologue on the merits of each, you may just choose to smile and nod your head politely while appearing to vaguely understand the ‘lingo’ of conditional flows, logic operators, events, and FADs, etc. However, it would be good to have some knowledge of both to understand how either could capture the set of requirements you have – the artefacts may add value to your business far beyond their cost of development.
If only we lived in a unified world – all driving on the right side of the road and using only 240V; no choices between ‘soccer’ or ‘football’, Coke or Pepsi, and so on. These are but a few of the different standards that have developed and exist on this planet we call Earth. It can be pretty frustrating when we travel to discover we have brought the wrong adapter, or find out that our favourite beverage is not available in a restaurant. However, the market dictates that familiarity, applicability and experience demands personal choice.
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How Long Will Your Fact Model Last?
The Power of Structured Business Vocabularies
Ronald G. Ross, Business Rules Journal, Vol. 12, No. 5 (May 2011)
In early 2011, one of our first business-side clients from the 1990s called out of the blue. We last worked with them in 1998 helping first to create a Policy Charter and future-form business process model, then a fact model (structured business vocabulary) for an entire line of business. We had since lost touch, so they brought us up to date.
In 1998 and 1999 they built a completely new system (largely in an early version of Java) based on our work together. The system had supported world-wide business operations quite well until just recently. In the past year or two though, the business had expanded both in volume and variety, and the existing system architecture had simply maxed out.
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BPTrends 2011 Process Modelling Survey
This month BPTrends is conducting the BPTrends 2011 Process Modelling Survey to determine how organisations understand process modelling, the types of process modelling activities they are engaged in and the tools and services they are using. At the conclusion of the survey, a report analysing the results will be available at www.bptrends.com, FREE of charge. This will be a valuable survey into an increasingly important area.
There are only 19 multiple choice questions and it will take you just 10 minutes, maybe 5. If only all of our tasks today were so easy and useful!
Interested? Do it now. Here’s the link again BPTrends 2011 Process Modelling Survey. Thanks.
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