April 2007 Archives

Jim Morris of CMU West and Bob Glushko of UC Berkeley summarized the day in a final session, and although it's coming up on 6pm and I'm eager to get back on the 101 up to San Francisco to get... Read More..

David Messerschmitt, a prof at UC Berkeley and the Helsinki University of Technology, finished the formal presentations for the day with a talk on how inter-firm cooperation can be improved in the software industry. This is an interesting wrap-up, since... Read More..

Jason Maynard of Credit Suisse moderated a panel on investment opportunities in the new software industry, which included Bill Burnham of Inductive Capital, Scott Russell (who was with two different venture capital firms but doesn't appear to be with one... Read More..

Bob Glushko, a prof at UC Berkeley, and Shelley Evenson, a prof at CMU, discussed different views on bridging the front stage and back stage in service system design. As a side note, I have to say that it's fun... Read More..

Martin Griss of CMU West and Adam Blum of Mobio Networks had a fairly interactive discussion about integrating traditional software engineering practices into modern service oriented development. Griss is a big proponent of agile development, and believes that the traditional... Read More..

First up after lunch is a panel on the role of open source in service management, moderated by Martin Griss of CMU West, and including Kim Polese of SpikeSource, and Jim Berbsleb and Tony Wasserman of CMU West. Polese is... Read More..

The morning finished with Timothy Chou, author of The End of Software and the former president of Oracle's online services group, discussing the radical changes in the software industry due to software-as-a-service. Anyone who entitles his talk "To Infinity and... Read More..

John Zysman, a professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, immediately followed Maglio with a related discussion on Services Transformation. The expectation was that Maglio and Zysman have diametrically opposed views and that their joint question period will degrade into fisticuffs... Read More..

Paul Maglio, a senior manager of service systems research at IBM's Almaden Research Center, spoke to us on the science of service systems, looking at the services sector of the economy, including everything from high-end professional services to McJobs in... Read More..

Michael Cusumano is with the MIT Sloan School of Management, and has written several books on the changing software industry; he spoke today about the changing business of software. In general, there is a decline of new enterprise software product... Read More..

I'm at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View attending the New Software Industry conference, put on by Carnegie Mellon West and the Haas School of Business. I interviewed a few of the people from CMU West a few months ago about... Read More..

There's a public domain BPMN poster and set of Visio templates on SourceForge for free download. Via BPM.com.... Read More..

BEA is holding a series of half-day developer seminars in a number of cities in Europe and the Americas, focussed on building enterprise mashups with their new/rebranded en.terpri.se platform. I was excited to see that one will be in Toronto,... Read More..

Forgive me readers, for I have slacked off. It's been 8 days since my last blog post. I blame the Canadian government, who insist on me doing my personal taxes by April 30th. I've had a number of vendor product... Read More..

It slipped past the earlier announced launch date of April 9th, but it looks like Dion Hinchcliffe's Enterprise 2.0 TV Show will launch today. As of 2am (ET), there's only a short snippet available on the site, but I'm hopeful.... Read More..

I finally made it home from Chicago around 1:30 this morning: United Airlines wimped out and cancelled all their flights, but Air Canada came through in the crunch. I'm now on a Proforma webinar about their new V6.0 release of... Read More..

I was wrong, the last one wasn't my last session, I had time for one more: Pat Dowdle on a Roadmap to Implementing Process-Based Management, based on CAM-I's emerging Process-Based Management (PBM) assessment and framework. There's a number of pieces... Read More..

Last session of the day for me: I'm headed off to the airport following this, although I realize that the probability of a flight in or out of Chicago being on time when it's snowing is near zero. With some... Read More..

I'm starting to see more and more familiar faces at these BPM conferences, and this one is no exception: I've met Gregg Rock and Tom Dwyer of BPMInstitute.org at a couple of conferences now, finally met Brett Champlin at the... Read More..

For the first breakout session of the day, I attended Ken Orr's talk on Business Process Driven Enterprise Architecture. He started out with some observations: improving business processes is essential for enterprises; business architecture is critical; modelling is critical; and business... Read More..

Following our morning break in the beautiful but sadly lacking in hot water (for tea) vendor showcase area is a panel moderated by Tom Dwyer on Transforming to a Process-Driven Enterprise, featuring speakers from Adobe (Ashish Agrawal) and BEA (John... Read More..

As an engineer, I love to hear about design, and I really liked Jeremy Alexis' talk on a Framework for Making Better Decisions during Product Definition. He teaches at the local Institute of Design (and has a blog about one... Read More..

I didn't come to Chicago specifically for the snow, but it didn't disappoint me nonetheless: big wet snow dripping down, just enough to get me wet crossing the road from my hotel to the Drake. We started the day with... Read More..

Tom Dwyer of BPMInstitute.org/BrainStorm Group finished up today's formal sessions with Enabling Business Process Innovation. As he pointed out, innovation is what drives company growth, and he listed the types of innovation that can be seen in organizations: Business model,... Read More..

I switched streams to the business rules symposium for the last breakout session of the day, The End of Requirements, because the description sounded too good to miss: Business wants control of the business back. For years we've lived with... Read More..

Peter Gilbertson is a  senior business analyst at CUNA Mutual, and his session was on Talking Process to Executives: Process, Tools and Techniques to Sell your BPM Project, which is about how to "sell" your BPM project to the people... Read More..

Bruce and I changed between the same two sessions, although he was leading both sessions and I was sitting back blogging. This one is a panel of four BPMS vendors, Global 360, IBM, Savvion and BEA, to discuss What's Next... Read More..

There's an awful lot of keynotes in this conference: a couple of overall sessions this morning, now "track keynotes" for each of the four tracks within the BPM conference. I'm in Bruce Silver's New Directions in BPM Tools and Technology... Read More..

Since I arrived late, my day started with Brett Champlin's keynote, BPM Triage -- A Health and Wellness Model for Enterprise Business Processes. I know Brett through ABPMP, but he's also Brett uses a healthcare analogy for applying process management... Read More..

The hotel wifi just kicked in, so I have a couple of posts queued up. I'm at the BrainStorm BPM conference in Chicago, and just flew in this morning so missed the initial keynotes (Enabling the Process-Centric Agile Enterprise and... Read More..

We're 19 minutes into a webinar on "Adding Process Context to BI for Process Intelligence" that is supposed to be featuring Colin Teubner of Forrester, and the sponsor (Global 360) is still talking. Even worse, I'm not completely clear on... Read More..

Consolidation in the industry keeps grinding on, with Software AG announcing that they will acquire webMethods for $546M. Last year, when I interviewed webMethods' EVP of Product Development, I wrote that their new BPM launch placed them squarely in competition with... Read More..

I had a great experience at the Canadian passport office recently -- words that are not often spoken in the same sentence -- due to a bit of imaging and BPM technology that's been possible for a long time, but... Read More..

I finally received my Blueprint beta account on the weekend, although I haven't had time to do much more than sign in, and there was an interactive webinar today for about 20 beta testers to see the new features in... Read More..

It's no coincidence that you find EMC's BPM offering under the Content Management menu from their home page: for years, EMC/Documentum have focused on content management, with process management a distant second concern, typically used for routing documents through a... Read More..