Despite (or maybe because of) the vast discussion on whether this is just a buzzword, a lipstick on a pig, or even a bad practice for BPM, I have to say that I see a continuously rising attention on Social BPM.This is demonstrated by a huge amount of posts by prominent BPM practitioners (see also … Continue reading The rising sun of Social BPM – upcoming TweetJam
I attended the OMG meeting in Salt Lake City from June 22 to June 24. Here are a few highlights from the Analysis and Design Task Force (ADTF) meeting I attended on Wednesday 22.An RFC for a canonical XMI formatPete Rivett is issuing today a RFC for a canonical XMI format at OMG.I think this … Continue reading Canonical XMI, MEF, IMM, SIMF, FACESEM. Highlights from the Salt Lake City OMG ADTF meeting, June 2011
Together with Piero Fraternali and Daniel Schwabe I organized a workshop at ICWE 2011 on on Search, Exploration and Navigation of Web Data Sources, named ExploreWeb 2011.It was a new challenge for us, because it was at its first edition, but I can say it has been a quite successful event.We got 12 submissions and … Continue reading ExploreWeb workshop on exploration of (Semantic) Web data at ICWE 2011
Alec Sharp giving his speech at IRM BPM EuropeOne of the highlight of the BPM Europe event (especially for the BPM hardcore people, at least 🙂 has been the speech given by Alec Sharp on June 9th.The main point of the discussion is again that the human issues are the key for effective business process … Continue reading Alec Sharp at IRM BPM Europe – Soft stuff is the hard stuff
Keith Swenson keynote speech at the Social Business Forum2011 on the Quantum EnterpriseToday I attended the Social Business Forum 2011 in Milan. It was a great event, with a huge line of speakers and events. The audience was huge (1200+ people I think), so big praise to Open Knowledge for the organization. If you want … Continue reading Social Business Forum 2011: Keith Swenson keynote speech on the Quantum Enterprise
I wrote a post some time ago on the classification of DSLs, that presented some dimensions of DSLs:Focus of a DSL (vertical vs. horizontal)Style of a DSL (declarative vs. imperative)Notation of a DSL (graphical or textual)But today (triggered by the discussions at Code Generation) I realized I overlooked a few obvious classification dimensions that are … Continue reading DSL classification: a quick Domain Specific Language dictionary
Language Workbenches, as defined originally by Martin Fowler, are tools aiming to cope with DSL creation and code generation to increase the level of abstraction of software development [credit to Pedro J. Molina for the reference].The Language Workbench Competition at Code Generation 2011 aimed at gathering and comparing the features of different workbenches available today, through … Continue reading Highlights from LWC 2011: Language Workbench Competition 2011 (co-located with Code Generation 2011)
In this post I wish to summarize the opinions and the discussions on the hot topic Social BPM. I think this provides a good understanding of the topic and a feeling on the debate that is still ongoing. If you know about other useful references, feel free to add them (self-citations are also welcome). Also, … Continue reading Social BPM: links, references and resources
Considering the different perspectives and interpretations of the Social BPM term that I came across in these months, I decided that time had come to make some clarification in this domain. I tried to come out with a shared definition and a common understanding on it, but I finally gave up because of the extremely … Continue reading The continuum of Social BPM
Together with Piero Fraternali and Carmen Vaca Ruiz I've recently written a chapter published within the Social BPM Handbook.The book is published by Future Strategies in association with the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) in the BPM and Workflow Handbook Series and will be launched at Social Business Forum 2011 on June 8, 2011 in Milan, … Continue reading A Model-driven Approach to Social BPM Applications
