With today’s top BPM tools, we are able to create and deploy applications with more ease and speed than ever—I’ve personally seen small applications build with both Pega and Appian in under 30 minutes! This allows BPM teams to take full advantage of providing businesses with immediate value and obvious benefits through quick wins. While […]
Think Big, Start Small, Win Quick – Tips from the BPM professionals Read more
Let me first start off by saying that we at Princeton Blue love agile. We practice it daily across our entire portfolio of projects and believe in its benefits. Yet, nothing is perfect. The dirty secret of Agile is that it has many pitfalls. Pitfalls that if not avoided, can create a chaotic, short-sighted mess
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When an organization is evaluating a product(s), we often listen to some of the terms like “FIT analysis” or “product FIT rating”. Many organizations preferring to do “FIT analysis” of the product than a “risk analysis”. Let’s understand the difference between these two before getting deeper into the topics. Understanding FIT Analysis An architecture risk
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In BPM development, we have all witnessed the inevitable tension between “the good” process, versus “the perfect” process, and this is when it comes down to implementing Business Process Management (BPM) solutions. As a general observation, businesses are hyper-focused on perfection (the perfect process), and in-turn developers move towards the inevitable path of developing those
Developing the Perfect Process Read more
Congratulations! Your company’s Business Process Management (BPM) initiative is officially underway and off the ground. As you roll-up your sleeves, loosen your tie and wheel your chair up toward your computer to model that very first official process model, you think to yourself, “This sure has been an agonizing six months of key stakeholder and
Simple vs Complex – The Correct Decision! Read more
The whispers are getting louder and the proclamations more brazen… BPMS vendors believe their packages can replace SAP and other ERP systems. Are they right? Lets find out. BPMS vs. ERP: Motivation behind the Thought First, let’s take a brief look at the motivation behind this movement. Industry analysts in aggregate peg annual BPMS market
Enterprises have created pockets of automation and process improvement using BPM, Lean Six Sigma and numerous data repositories. All these methodologies, automation and data repositories do not deliver an efficient and agile end-to-end business process management solution. Current IT infrastructure does not address the fact that business process will continue to change at a rapid
Principles of Lean Six Sigma are Drivers for BPM success (Part 1) Read more
Today’s companies are understandably concerned about securing their systems and their employees’ and customers’ data; unfortunately, however, that concern is slowing the adoption of shared computing tools and techniques, which are commonly referred to these days using the “cloud” buzzword. Within this article, I’ll illustrate that there is no measurable difference between the level of
Cloud Security and the Role of Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt Read more
Can Document Management can be made easy by Process Attachments? The key point in this solution is that document management can be achieved through procedure. It’s the business process that defines: Business Context – The business process model defines exactly when, why, and how documents are consumed and processed. This context gives us a vocabulary
Document Management as Process Attachments Read more
As typical to most new endeavors, we find ourselves urgently seeking short-term goals and immediate turnaround on investment. Management wishes visibility on progress and what better way to show progress then working (hands-on) demonstrations! The cost of project debt can’t be ignored though on what becomes rapid, short-term iterations. Acknowledging that short cycles yields early
Project Debt: Recognize and Mitigate Effects Read more