The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Peter Schooff, Contributing Editor, ebizQ , 04/07/2011
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Editor's Note: In this Q & A, ebizQ Contributing Editor Peter Schooff talks with consultant Anatoly Belychook, who offers tips about some BPM mistakes to avoid and BPM trends to watch. Belychook is president of Business Console, a BPM development and consultancy firm in Moscow, Russia, as well as a frequent contributor to the ebizQ Forum.
PS: In a recent BPM/ACM [advanced case management] debate, you said that
most of the criticisms of BPM are actually targeting not BPM itself, but BPM
done wrong. Can you tell me what constitutes BPM done right?
AB: First of all, there is a kind of a general understanding of how to
do BPM right. But the problem is that there are many small factors that can
dramatically affect your BPM initiative and actually ruin it.
One example of these I can give comes from the BPM Common Body of Knowledge [(by the Association of Business Process Management Professionals, CreateBooks, 2009)]. It's actually a great work. I especially enjoyed the part devoted to enterprise BPM. But it presents implementation matters in a very waterfall-oriented approach….This is one of the major points that ACM pundits are attacking--and quite rightly, because if you do it in a waterfall-like approach, then there is no room for agility, so it's not BPM, actually.
PS: How can a single aspect of BPM done wrong kill an entire project?
AB: Well, if you approach it with the waterfall instead of agile, instead
of short development cycles, you will probably end up with a very rigid system,
which isn't a BPM system, but is, in essence, another corporate application.
Another factor: If you take the wrong process, if you try to make your project
safe and work on the process nobody cares about, then [ultimately] all your
initiatives will be ones that nobody cares about, and you will fail.
There was an interesting post from [BPM blogger and consultant] Gary Comerford on exactly this matter quite recently. He said that there is always one key factor for the success of your initiative. I would like to add that there may be one key factor for success, but there are always several key factors for failure. This is the problem. You must know a lot and be careful about many things at once. This is why BPM professional services are in demand.
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