Dec

18

How Are Techniques Selected For The BABOK?

December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Occasionally, I will get asked why a particular technique hasn’t been included in the BABOK. While I’d love to tell you that I have a rigorous checklist that I use to score each technique or method of analysis and then use that to determine what makes it in, I doubt you’d believe me. Nevertheless, there [...]

Dec

14

BABOK 2.0 Update

December 14, 2006 | 1 Comment

The Body of Knowledge Team has been reviewing the feedback kindly provided by the Expert Advisory Group and working out how to integrate that feedback into the next release of the BABOK.
Our experts agreed that the work to date was solid, but identified three major areas for us to focus on when developing the next [...]

Dec

13

More Draft BABOK 2.0 Viewpoint Material

December 13, 2006 | 4 Comments

Again, a first draft. These sections are from the introduction–there’ll be more changes within the KAs. Agile and BPM won’t be the only things described like this, they’re just the first ones I’ve written.
Business Process Management
Description
Business Process Management (BPM) is focused on the identification, development, improvement, and management of processes as a means to effectively [...]

Dec

12

Lifecycles in BABOK 2.0

December 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment

This is a very early draft of some material that may appear in version 2.0 of the BABOK. I’d like to know if this helps clarify how the BABOK’s tasks and KAs apply to different lifecycles.
Lifecycles
Lifecycles generally impose as few limitations as possible on the nature of the solutions delivered. The focus is on how [...]

Dec

7

BPM Summit Workshop Cancelled

December 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Unfortunately, not enough people signed up for the workshops. If you’re curious, though, please feel free to check out the slides for Building BPM-Centric Reusable Application Frameworks.
The actual presentation would have been modified from the version on the site–I was having trouble with the closing until I started reading Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, which helped [...]

Dec

5

Riva’s Process Architecture

December 5, 2006 | 1 Comment

Riva is actually two largely independent techniques (although they do serve a common purpose). The first detailed is how to define processes using a Role-Activity Diagram. The second is a method for defining a process architecture.
What is a process architecture? It’s a definition of what processes an organization needs to conduct its business, how those [...]

Dec

1

Investigating the Riva Process Methodology

December 1, 2006 | 1 Comment

Previously posted at the Requirements Networking Group.
The Riva Method, created by Martyn A. Ould, is a BPM methodology that makes a unique and compelling promise: that it can enable a business analyst to discover the full set of processes required by an organization in a matter of hours or days, and that the [...]

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