Archives for February, 2009
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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
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 [...]
Category: Philosophy Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Technowishing Tags: David McCoy, Gartner
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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Business Rule Management (BRM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
