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Archives for February, 2009


BPM Champion: Playing the Game

by David McCoy  |  February 27, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

As a kid, I played a mean game of neighborhood softball.  You know the story: 1960s to very early ’70s, red mud fields, wooden bats, marginally-stitched softballs, bases made out of left-over building material, neighborhood friends, neighborhood bullies, no uniforms, shoes optional.  Yeah!  You played it too?  Do you remember how we determined which team [...]

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Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla     Tags: , , ,

Real-Time Rule: I Wrote it in 2003, and I’ll Reiterate it Now

by David McCoy  |  February 20, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

Here’s a provocative piece I wrote back in 2003, for our Unconventional Thinking blog. The Emergence of Real-Time Rule: Mind if We Plug in? We Fellows do a lot of Unconventional Thinking.  At the time, this piece was considered pretty far-fetched, but I believed it 100% then and still do.  Today, it almost seems like [...]

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Process Visibility Matrix – Sans Discussion

by David McCoy  |  February 8, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

There have been some great comments on my process visibility post.  Since I am about to head to the Georgia Tech – Maryland basketball game, let me simply post my own working model on Process Visibility and come back later to elaborate.  This model is useful for analyzing your process visibility needs by examining the [...]

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Process Visibility? Not for Everyone…

by David McCoy  |  February 2, 2009  |  7 Comments

Should all processes be visible to all process participants?  Nope.  While it may sound like BPM heresy, some processes should remain behind closed doors for certain participants who will be involved in the process.  The facts follow… I lunched with an architect a while back at one of our BPM conferences. She made it clear [...]

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