The question on Slashdot was actually “Do You Like Your Workflow or BPM Software?“.
The questioner was interested in “firsthand experiences with these kinds of products and in unbiased reviews” and requested information on following products:
The question on Slashdot was actually “Do You Like Your Workflow or BPM Software?“.
The questioner was interested in “firsthand experiences with these kinds of products and in unbiased reviews” and requested information on following products:
Apache ODE, as in “Apache Orchestration Director Engine” (wow thats a mouthful), is a Top Level Project under the aegis of the Apache Software Foundation.
The stated objective of the ODE is “to create a reliable, compact, and embeddable component capable of managing the execution of long-running business processes defined using the BPEL process description language“, and the focus has been on “developing small modules with minimal dependencies that could be assembled (and easily reassembled) to construct a full featured BPMS“. LEGO blocks of BPMS?
One of BPM’s early pioneers, Dr. Setrag Khoshafian, Vice President of BPM Technology at Pegasystems (previously Senior Vice President of Technology with Savvion), surely knows a thing or two about BPMS. In this short and interesting white paper he diffuses what he identifies are Six Myths of Rules and Business Process Management.
FACT #1: The Standish Group’s 1994 Chaos Report found that the top three project impairment factors across 352 companies and 8,000 projects were
FACT #2: Almost 50% of defects identified during testing to be due to defects in requirements. Source: “Calculating your return on investment from more effective requirements management.”
How does one address this? Let’s first understand the processes and tools that are in place today.
Notice something?