Listen to the interview with Clay Richardson from Forrester Research. Clay shares many great insights on topics like Customer Journey Mapping and aligning it with BPM, Lean Startup Techniques, Low-Code Application Development and much more.
Listen to the interview on bpmtips.com/clay
Almost every year you can hear about the new standards and topics in Business Process Management that promise you great results. But how to distinguish between new BPM skills you should add to your toolbox, obsolete ones or hypes?
To help you decide what is worth your attention in 2016 I asked some of the best BPM experts in the world:
1. What are the skills that BPM practitioners should add to their toolbox in 2016?
2. Which skills are no longer relevant or not practically applicable yet (hype)?
Did you ever wonder what are the best approaches to build a process architecture? I was invited to present at the BPM Eastern Europe Summit Online on December 14th about best ways to build the process architecture.
Learn more and sign up for free at: http://goo.gl/unehZX
Creating a good process architecture from scratch can be very time consuming. Fortunately there are resources you can use to speed up the process and avoid reinventing the wheel.
One of my favorite resources I recommend to people asking me about process modeling is the Process Classification Framework from APQC.
Since it was just recently updated to version 7.0 I decided to create a post about it.
Are you a fresh Business Process Analyst? Or maybe a seasoned BPM practitioner with many years of flowcharting experience?
No matter what is your background you must have heard about the BPMN as the new de facto standard for modeling processes. It can be used when you need to document your processes as a part of the project or when you need to automate your processes.
Would you like to start using BPMN? Great – I have prepared a free online course/video tutorial for you.
Read more about the course and sign up
Massive Open Online Courses allow you to learn new things in a way which fits your schedule. They are often organized by best educational institutions/experts in the world. And did I mention they are free? If you want to learn more about MOOCs there is a BPTrends article on this topic.
Below you can find list of the BPM-related courses that I participated in (and recommend) or the ones I am currently signed up for. For all of them you can sign up now and learn new BPM skills in 2015.
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One of the most important elements of every Business Analyst’s toolkit is process modeling, which is also significant activity for Business Process Management professionals.
For BPM market BPMN is now the standard for modeling processes. But is it also the case for BA’s?
To find out what are the best practices, I asked some of the best BA and BPMN experts in the world a simple question:
“Why, when and how should business analysts use BPMN?”
Read more on bpmtips.com
Have you ever spent days of your work creating and polishing your business process models just to notice there are no people actually using them?
Creating business process models is not so difficult. However creating process models that are useful is a bit more complex.
This is why I prepared 6 steps that will (hopefully) help you make the best use of your time.
Read more on bpmtips.com
I am moving this blog to a new domain.
You will find future posts on bpm.tips (isn’t it nice?).
EDIT: Well, actually .tips domain did not work so well, so I moved to more standard domain:
Interested in interchanging BPMN diagrams across various BPM tools?
Check out the Model Interchange Working Group to join our weekly webinars, see set of test models and add results of tests for the tools you use:
http://www.omgwiki.org/bpmn-miwg
See the video of demo session of interchange during OMG meeting in Berlin.
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