David McCoy

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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I need to raise a little Pet Peeve here or my upcoming post will make me wiggle with discomfort.  What follows is a layman’s examination, not a doctoral dissertation.  Anyone who wants to do battle on a philosophical front will not find a willing participant here as I left behind this level of debate in [...]

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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 a foregone [...]

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Here is my art resume: I never took an art class; I didn’t even take an art appreciation class.  I was tolerable with pencil and paper, but certainly no artist.  I was a self-trained, mediocre cartoonist:  some talent, but just some.  I amused myself, and my friends… but we all knew who could really draw.
Ergo, [...]

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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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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 that [...]

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