With that title, you can just imagine the black-cassocked priest striding across the Irish moors to confront his personal demons... or maybe I have an overactive imagination from watching a rerun of The Thorn Birds last night.
Anyway, this isn't about Father Pat's own sins, but the sins that we all commit during the act of BPM. As a follow-up to Bruce Silver's comment on my previous posts about the Seven Deadly Sins of BPM, here they are, hot off the Savvion press:
- Don't model your current process
- Don't understand people and system requirements
- Treat BPM as an IT problem
- Focus on "architecture" in SOA rather than "service", which ensures that the business doesn't care about the project
- Commit unnatural acts with existing applications
- Hardwire your BPM application
- Implement automation [of low-value processes] only
I was going to highlight a couple of these as sins that I've seen committed, but have to admit that I've seen them all, although have rarely committed any of them myself. I can't even single one out as being the key one: they're all killers.
The true path to BPM is clear: repent of your sins!
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