This document provides an overview of business process management (BPM). It defines key BPM concepts like business process, goals, and stakeholders. It also outlines the typical 6 stages of a BPM initiative: discover, formalize, implement, runtime, monitor, and improve. The stages involve activities like interviewing stakeholders, modeling processes, building technical integrations, executing processes, analyzing metrics, and iterating on improvements. Recommendations include gaining stakeholder buy-in, scoping iterations wisely, and focusing on achieving end-to-end work flows initially before refining further.
This module is about start using jBPM5 and the things that you need to know in order to understand the basic concepts about how it works. During this module you can download and play with a sample project that define a simple business process with some business rules. This module provides different tests that shows how to interact with our processes in different ways and how to test the behavior unit testing them. For more information check out: http://salaboy.wordpress.com/
This modules covers two different aspects that we need to understand to customize our business processes to specific business situations. The first concept that we need to understand is the Service Task activity defined in the BPMN v2 specification. Once we understand the nature of external system interactions we need to understand the mechanisms implemented in jBPM5 to provide these extension points.
Find more about it in:
http://salaboy.wordpress.com
http://ilesteban.wordpress.com
Brief presentation summarizing some new features introduced by BPMN 2.0, focusing on few points (made to answer to particular needs of a research project)
This module is about start using jBPM5 and the things that you need to know in order to understand the basic concepts about how it works. During this module you can download and play with a sample project that define a simple business process with some business rules. This module provides different tests that shows how to interact with our processes in different ways and how to test the behavior unit testing them. For more information check out: http://salaboy.wordpress.com/
This modules covers two different aspects that we need to understand to customize our business processes to specific business situations. The first concept that we need to understand is the Service Task activity defined in the BPMN v2 specification. Once we understand the nature of external system interactions we need to understand the mechanisms implemented in jBPM5 to provide these extension points.
Find more about it in:
http://salaboy.wordpress.com
http://ilesteban.wordpress.com
Brief presentation summarizing some new features introduced by BPMN 2.0, focusing on few points (made to answer to particular needs of a research project)
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)Peter R. Egli
Overview of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) language for modeling business processes.
When implementing business processes, there is usually a large gap between the business semantics (process, activity, participant, orchestration, choreography, data items etc.) and the technical implementation languages (REST, WSDL, transport protocol, message bus etc.). BPMN has the goal of bridging this gap by providing a standard notation for describing business processes plus a standard mapping of this notation into an executable description language like WSBPEL. The BPMN 2.0 standard even allows executing BPMN business models directly without the need of a translation.
The core notation elements of BPMN are flow objects to model activities and events, data objects to model pieces of information, connecting objects to model information and control flow, and swimlanes to model process participants. Four different diagram types allow the modeling of processes, process choreographies, collaboration between participants and conversations.
Fundamentals of Business Process Management: A Quick Introduction to Value-Dr...Marlon Dumas
Marlon Dumas of University of Tartu gives an introduction and quick tour of the business process management lifecycle. Seminar given at the Estonian BPM Roundtable, 10 October 2013.
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PowerPoint presentation from an Austin JUG (java user's group) event in June. The purpose of the presentation is to help Java developers learn, use and extent ADemipere, a popular open source ERP.
Business Process Management (BPM) has received increased attention recently, as many organizations view automation as a quick way to reduce costs. In fact, the principal benefits of BPM come from its improvement of process effectiveness, not through reduced headcount. To achieve these benefits, the organization must adopt a staged approach to BPM, proceeding through five steps:
•Identify key target processes for BPM implementation.
•Document processes using standard process notation.
•Refine by reshaping processes to improve effectiveness.
•Automate processes to increase effectiveness, consistency, and efficiency.
•Control processes by monitoring to avoid business issues.
While the stages remain the same from company to company, Info-Tech encourages organizations to choose from three implementation plans that reflect an increasing scale of investment. Use the tools that accompany the set to choose the plan that best matches your organizational and process characteristics.
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)Peter R. Egli
Overview of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) language for modeling business processes.
When implementing business processes, there is usually a large gap between the business semantics (process, activity, participant, orchestration, choreography, data items etc.) and the technical implementation languages (REST, WSDL, transport protocol, message bus etc.). BPMN has the goal of bridging this gap by providing a standard notation for describing business processes plus a standard mapping of this notation into an executable description language like WSBPEL. The BPMN 2.0 standard even allows executing BPMN business models directly without the need of a translation.
The core notation elements of BPMN are flow objects to model activities and events, data objects to model pieces of information, connecting objects to model information and control flow, and swimlanes to model process participants. Four different diagram types allow the modeling of processes, process choreographies, collaboration between participants and conversations.
Fundamentals of Business Process Management: A Quick Introduction to Value-Dr...Marlon Dumas
Marlon Dumas of University of Tartu gives an introduction and quick tour of the business process management lifecycle. Seminar given at the Estonian BPM Roundtable, 10 October 2013.
Open Source ERP Technologies for Java Developerscboecking
PowerPoint presentation from an Austin JUG (java user's group) event in June. The purpose of the presentation is to help Java developers learn, use and extent ADemipere, a popular open source ERP.
Business Process Management (BPM) has received increased attention recently, as many organizations view automation as a quick way to reduce costs. In fact, the principal benefits of BPM come from its improvement of process effectiveness, not through reduced headcount. To achieve these benefits, the organization must adopt a staged approach to BPM, proceeding through five steps:
•Identify key target processes for BPM implementation.
•Document processes using standard process notation.
•Refine by reshaping processes to improve effectiveness.
•Automate processes to increase effectiveness, consistency, and efficiency.
•Control processes by monitoring to avoid business issues.
While the stages remain the same from company to company, Info-Tech encourages organizations to choose from three implementation plans that reflect an increasing scale of investment. Use the tools that accompany the set to choose the plan that best matches your organizational and process characteristics.
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Most aspects of business equate to a process. However, those processes are frequently not as efficient or effective as they could be. Business process improvement or BPI can help companies demonstrate greater customer responsiveness, increase employee productivity, and become more competitive in the market. In The Power of Business Process Improvement, Susan Page describes a ten step approach to BPI that is pragmatic and focused on ease of use. To alert management about improved business processes, the author also recommends developing an executive summary document with six sections: project focus, goals, summary, key findings, deliverables, and appendix.
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E-book 1: BPM - Business Process Management in practiceValéria Brito
Hello! All right? How many materials have you searched on the internet trying to find the way to do Process Management in your organization? I believe that very little when we talk about “HOW”! This e-book is ideal for you who have already understood well about the main concepts of BPM - Business Process Management, but do not know where to start. We will bring a simple and applicable methodology for those who want to start the Process Management activities, going through all the phases recommended in the CBOK Life Cycle BPM v.3.
Business Process Management - What is it, and why all the buzz?Bonitasoft
Learn about:
- The definition of BPM and the history behind its emergence
- Applying BPM method and technology to best advantage
- Using BPM modeling notation to facilitate collaboration between business and IT
- Practical, real world examples of "BPM applied"
PPT contain the study of the business process management of IT industry , It mainly deals with the customer and billing system . To avoid the time of serving the customer
Theodore Panagacos, a former Management Consultant with Booz & Company in the podcast, Business Process Management more than an IT Function, gives an introduction to Business Process Management. Theodore recently authored the book, The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management: Everything you need to know and how to apply it to your organization. His book has become an Amazon top seller in its category, Business Process Management. This is a transcription of the podcast.
This slide show incorporates the following topics: Business Process: Terminology ,Business Process: Management, Business Process: Development , Business Process: Re-Engineering , Strategic Process Analysis , Managing Business Process & Managerial issues in Process Management.
How a Business Process Vision May Boost Innovative IdeasNathaniel Palmer
Even before fascinating promises about orchestrating organizations, BPM directly supports different and previously unexplored points of view.
While traditional/transactional systems were designed and developed to vertically support departmental needs, BPM suites take care of creating bridges to link those functional islands together, in order to map and manage the evolution of companies cross activity paths. But beyond this relevant and valuable horizontal perspective, there are very significant organizational implications strictly related to the maturity of those BPM tools in terms of level of abstraction and business approach they propose. Starting from WHAT can be managed by BPM suites, this session will focus on HOW they allow to proceed involving users and managers
totally, when adopting an implementing-analysis approach, with unpredictable benefits and new ideas.
Step 1: Define your goals
Step 2: Plan and map your process. What are the strategies needed to achieve the goals? ...
Step 3: Set actions and assign stakeholders. ...
Step 4: Test the process. ...
Step 5: Implement the process. ...
Step 6: Monitor the results. ...
Step 7: Repeat.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Leading Change strategies and insights for effective change management pdf 1.pdf
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4. Agenda
What is a Business Process? Why do we need them?
Advantages of knowing your business processes
Business Process Management Introduction
Stage #1: Discover
Stage #2: Formalize
Stage #3: Implement
Stage #4: Runtime
Stage #5: Monitor
Stage #6: Improve
Conclusions
5. Process? What?
Process
[pros-es; especially Brit. proh-ses] noun, plural proc·ess·es
–noun
A systematic series of actions directed to some end: to
devise a process for homogenizing milk.
A continuous action, operation, or series of changes
taking place in a definite manner: the process of decay.
–verb
To treat or prepare by some particular process, as in
manufacturing.
to convert (an agricultural commodity) into marketable
form by a special process, as pasteurization.
6. What Process means for Us
Process
Set of ordered actions that tends to transform an
input to a desired output
7. Business? What?
Business /ˈbɪznɪs/ Show Spelled[biz-nis]
–noun
The purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to makea
profit.
–adjective
Of, noting, or pertaining to business, its organization, or
its procedures.
8. What Business means for Us
Business
Relative to a domain, company or a scoped scenario,
where certain rules and actions needs to be applied to
achieve a goal.
9. What Business Goal means for Us
Business Goal
Objective to be satisfied inside the business scope that
gives to the company a profit/benefit in some way.
11. Sequence of Actions
Sequence of actions
Well defined set of actions that are executed/done in a
specific order
The sequence can be repeated multiple times for
different situation but the goal of the process must
remain the same
The sequence doesn't change frequently (let's say doesn't
change every second, but it can change every week or
every month)
The actions are atomic and well focused
12. Performed by Humans and Systems
Performed by Humans and Systems
Humans and Systems behave differently
Some mechanisms are required to make them work
together seamesly
We need to understand deeply the requirements for
these types of interactions
13. To achieve a business goal
To achieve a business goal
The most important part of the definition
We need to understand why the process was created and
the results that the company expect from it
We need to keep the process goal updated in order to
validate that each activity inside it is contributing to
achieve the objective
We can measure how and which are the costs of
achieving the proposed goal in order to improve the
profit/benefits.
15. Business Process Management History
Business Process Management History
Was born more than 30 years ago
Focused on improve how companies work
Workflows, person to person interactions come first
A business related approach come later with high level
concepts
The BPM discipline was created to provide a framework
where business processes can be discovered and
improved over the years
16. Business Process Management Stages
Business Process Management Stages
Stage #1: Discover
Stage #2: Formalize
Stage #3: Implement
Stage #4: Runtime
Stage #5: Monitor
Stage #6: Improve
17. BPM Stage #1: Discover
BPM Stage #1: Discover key points
Find how the work is being done
Interview every person involved with the process under
analysis.
Explain the reasons and the purposes of the interviews
Find the information that persons and systems
are handling for achieving each activity.
Find out the paper work that it's being done inside the
process.
Collect and structure the interviews answers to find out a
textual description about how the work is done in the
company.
18. BPM Stage #2: Formalize
BPM Stage #2: Formalize
Use a formal language to model the discovered process.
This is usually a business analyst task.
Use business language to describe the activity names
inside the process
Don't use technical/obfuscated language to describe
business activities
Keep in mind the process perspective and the process
goal
Validate the formal model with business people
19. BPM Stage #3: Implement
BPM Stage #3: Implement
Create and add all the technical details needed to run
your business process definition
Identify and setup users and groups information
Define and implement User Interfaces for Human Tasks
Interactions
Create third party and internal system connectors
Define a dictionary that contains systems, applications
and services and the developed connectors
Define a dictionary that contains users, groups and the
services or data structures that are being used to retrieve
their information
20. BPM Stage #4: Runtime
BPM Stage #4: Runtime
Define and setup an execution environment (usually
centralized and accessible via network/internet)
Define a small group of users that will be responsible to
do their activities using the implemented users interfaces
Assist the users in their first experiences
Take notes about common problems and exceptional
situations and their solutions
Measure the amount of completed processes and
activities
21. BPM Stage #5: Monitor
BPM Stage #5: Monitor
Create and setup business specific widgets to monitor
relevant metrics from the process executions
Measure process specific metrics
Completion Time, Number of activities completed,
etc
Create dashboard-like screens that helps for decision
making processes
Take notes about improvements that can significantly
change process performance (business related
performance)
22. BPM Stage #6: Improve
BPM Stage #6: Improve
Based on overall notes scope the next iteration
Define next interation's goal
Focus your proposal into maximize business benefits
Be ready to improve all the created assets
24. BPM Some Recommendations
BPM Some Recommendations
The success of the BPM initiative is highly related with
the culture of the company
A mind shift from all company levels is required
Find a good internal sponsor that backs you up during
the BPM stages
Teach people about how to participate in the BPM
practice, most of them want to improve the way of
working
25. BPM Tips and Tricks
BPM Tips and Tricks
Get involved with the people that do the work everyday
Discovering new business process is not an easy task, be
careful
Understand the goal that each business process has in
real life
Scope your iterations wisely
Try to get something working from end to end in first
iterations, you can improve it later
Be there for end users, answer questions, help them to
adopt the new proposal
26. Conclusions
Conclusions
BPM will guide you to an iterative and continuous
improvement of your business processes
Your business processes are a very important business
asset that gives to all the company visibility about how
the work is being done
BPM is not about technology is about improvement
You need to define and understand perfectly the
company, the people and the goal that you are trying to
achieve with the project
BPM will not fix everything
27. Next Modules
Stay tuned for the next modules that will explain important
topics such as:
The Business Process Modeling and Notation V2
jBPM5 first steps and hands on labs (after the release)
Human Interactions inside our processes
etc.
28. Related Links
You can find more information, examples, tutorials and
more in:
BPM Books:
Business Process Management, Second Edition
Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages
and Architectures
Salaboy Blog
http://salaboy.wordpress.com
Plug Tree Blog
http://www.plugtree.com