Activiti in Action for BeJUG Part II

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Part II : Vision and Future

Agenda
Process engine
Collaboration
Cases

Where Is The Problem?
Discuss requirements
Build what they want
Show results
Turns out they want something else
Make up your mind
That’s normal
Solution: More and faster prototyping

Where Is The Problem?
Imagine building a webapp
Show one form to one user
Then invoke procedure in CRM app
Logic grows in webapp
Show approval form to multiple users
When 80% approves proceed
Timer for escalation
If-then-else forest
Solution: Build overview diagram of steps

Manual And Automatic Steps

Essence of BPM System
Automatic Tasks
SaaS
Salesforce
Google docs
Concur
Facebook
Basecamp
Tripit
…
On-premise back-office
SAP
SQL
LDAP
Custom apps
…
Process
Tasklists
Forms
Logic
Java
Scripting
Generic
REST
WS

Why Use A Process Engine?
Technical benefit
Overview diagram
Rapid prototyping
Fast implementation
Prebuilt activity typesEmails, tasks, forms, Alfresco and Google docs,…
Business benefit
Improve communication between business and IT

Why Activiti?
BPMN 2.0
New, endorsed industry standard
Liberal Apache license
Big and active community
Java library
Deploy anywhere
Advanced Tooling

Agenda
Process engine
Collaboration
Cases

Software Project
Executable Process
Abstract Process
Non-tech
Business Analyst
Developer
<details />
Analyst
Java, XML,
Buildscripts,
Tests, …
Developer
Software
Server
Activiti
Your
App

Activiti Cycle
Collaboration for process solutions
Repositories
Alfresco, nfs, Activiti Modeler, svn, Jira
Link and discuss artifacts from different repos
Lifecycle guidance
Revamp in 5.4 (tomorrow)

Agenda
Process engine
Collaboration
Cases

Simple And Fast
Mantra
We shall not be harder then email
Speed
Only task title is required
The new Post-it™
Text – Enter – Text – Enter

Share Context
Get people involved
Open full context
Comments replace emails
Link emails
Upload content
Link ‘stuff’ from online accounts
Alfresco sites, docs, wiki pages, calendars
Google calendar
Forum threads
Jira issue

Emails
Meetings

Productive
For yourself
For your collaborations

ACM and BPM
Borrowed with permission from
Sandy Kemsley
http://column2.com

Viral
Expect this on the cloud
As a service
No installation treshold
Addictive for individuals
Extra benefit for collaboration with collegues
Extra benefit for B2B collaboration

Multipurpose
Dedicated case types will make it massively applicable
Generic cases
Workflow tasks
Meeting
Issues
Call center
Opportunity / deals

Grow Processes Organic
Start doing ad hoc
Grow organic
Once you spot a pattern
Build process as you go
Start building process by example

Store Processes In Systems
Knowledge typically in people
People can leave
Huge replacement cost
Processes captured in systems like Activiti
Can’t leave

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