ABPMP GA November Event - Presentation of BPM CBOK

You probably were not expecting to hear from your friends at the ABPMP Georgia Chapter so soon. Because you are such such a passionate BPM Professional, I'm sure you will be very happy to know that you are invited to attend our November event.

The next event, will take place on November 19, from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, at Turner Broadcast. This event will be about about the ABPMP BPM Common Book of Knowledge (BPM CBOK).

This presentation is not going to be an education about BPM but rather a presentation about the benefits to BPM professionals to get very familiar with the ABPMP BPM Common Book of Knowledge™ - BPM CBOK.

This presentation ultimately seeks to raise awareness of the BPM Community of:
1 - The maturity of the BPM discipline and the existence of a formal consensus on what BPM terms and concepts mean and how they need to be interpreted.
2 - The responsibility of each BPM Professional to represent and promote a viable BPM community by demonstrating understand of the core BPM concepts, as well as the ability to perform the activities and tasks identified within it.
3 - The importance of planning to become a Certified Business Process Professional (CBPPTM) and how important the BPM CBOK™ is in that process, as the basis for developing examination questions for the exam.
4 - The importance of the ABPMP in engaging in activities that promote the practice of business process management, to develop a common body of knowledge in this field, and to contribute to the advancement and skill development of professionals who work in this discipline.
5 - The importance of ABPMP’s local chapters to organize periodic events featuring case studies and presentations about BPM topics that provide an inexpensive continuing education program for their members.

Please join us in this very important event! To register for the Introduction of the ABPMP BPM Common Book of Knowledge (CBOK) click here.

"Introduction to BPMN" videos are ALL available on ABPMP GA YouTube Channel

If you were not able to make it to our event of the 16th, "Introduction to BPMN" with speaker, don't worry because you can catch up some of the great topics discussed, by watching a series of videos.

The ABPMP recognizes that if you don't live in Atlanta, and you happen to live in Augusta, Columbus, Savannah, Athens, Macon, Roswell, or any where in between, it will always be difficult for you to make it to our meetings. (allow me to send a shout out to Athens and the college students learning BPM!)

We will try to have most of our content available by video in the ABPMP GA Video Channel, while we work on the best way to broadcast live our events (will work great in case gas gets back to $4.50/gallon!!!).

Here is the list of the 8 videos of the "Introduction to BPMN" event.

Video 1 - Do you still use flowcharts to model BPM?
Video 2 - How BPMN bridges the organization communication gap
Video 3 - What is BPMN?
Video 4 - BPMN versus Business Requirements
Video 5 - BPMN versus XPDL and BPMN and BPEL
Video 6 - BPMN is about SIMPLICITY
Video 7 - BPMN with Petri Net versus PI Calculus
Video 8 - BPMN - A tool for Process Discovery

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The BPMN event was a great sucess!

Yesterday took place yet another event of the ABPMP GA. This time the speaker was Rick Geneva who made a great introduction to BPMN (Business Process Modeling Event). Here are some pictures of the event.



During the event, Rick Geneva highlighted the importance of BPMN in the world of BPM and how its rich ontology can be used to model a process in such way that it can be used both by the engineering and business people.

Being able to merge the synergies within the organization, and having everyone have a common view of the organization's processes is one of Rick's passions. Rick demonstrated how a BPMN diagram is easy to understand and it truly depicts (with absolute accuracy) the process. Rick made is point by comparing a BPMN with the tools that most of people still use such as MS-Visio (out-of-the-box).

Rick also made the event very open to questions and answers, which made the event extremely useful. It was very refreshing to see that there are a lot of people as passionate about BPM.

October 16th - Introduction to BPMN with Rick Geneva

You were probably wondering about this month's event. Wait no more. We have an exciting event for all of you that want to know how to model correctly business processes.

If you use Visio, or any graphical tool, it is time that you start using more mature business process modeling methodologies. I know you know this, but for those that don't, the methodology that most widely available is BPMN or Business Process Modeling Notation.

Again, I know you know this, but to be on the safe side, BPMN is one of the disciplines of BPA or Business Process Analysis.

To make sure that your time is well invested, we invited a Georgia resident, and a BPMN expert - Rick Geneva.

Click this link to know everything about the BPMN event.

We are waiting for you!

Join the BPM revolution.

BPM Job Posting of Georgia - ABPMP

You are a BPM expert, and you have actively working with BPM methodologies for many years. Even though, you know BPM is the future, you cannot believe why hasn't the Georgia business community organize to build a BPM job listing pertaining soly to Georgia.

The ABPMP Georgia has decided to close the void in the market. You are now offering a brand new service that allows Georgia organizations to post free of charge, BPM specific positions. Please check the GA BPM Job Listing.

As the BPM revolution continue to sweep business, more positions for BPMS, BPMN, Business Rules, Semantic Web experts are starting to appear in traditional job sites.

We want to incentivate this growth of BPM in Georgia, and because of that, we want to give the necessary exposure to BPM related positions.

Please share this news with others.

The ABPMP Georgia wants to increase YOUR exposure! We want to assit you leverage your investment on BPM.

More ABPMP Chapters Forming

ABPMP is rapidly growing both domestically and abroad, according to the August status report, from the ABPMP national team. There are currently eight chapters forming: Boston, Charlotte, Montreal, Nordic, Paris, Panama, Phoenix, and Vancouver. Also, China, Lebanon and the UK have all inquired about forming chapters. So far the Brazil chapter has the largest membership at 66 with Philadalephia not far behind at 59. ABPMP membership is now 448 strong; August saw an increase of 48.

Spread the word
It’s encouraging to see the chapters increasing, but we still have a long way to go to become the largest business process management professional group. So, do your part and spread the word. Share your enthusiasm of BPM with your friends and colleagues, point them to the ABPMP website and invite them to the next chapter meeting!

Attend our event
ABPMP Georgia is holding a quarterly meeting on September 10 from 4:30-6:30 pm at Turner Broadcasting System, 1050 Techwood Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30318. Please come join us. If you can’t make it by 4:30, stop in when you can. For more information about the meeting, go to the events calendar on the ABPMP Georgia website and click on the event for September 10. You can register for this event by filling out the registration form. Also, read Filipe Pinto’s entry on this blog: September 10th event, you can’t miss it!

Chapter Metrics
Following lists the ABPMP Chapters (thanks to Dave Carter from ABPMP Chapter Services).

Active Chapters
Chapter: July 08 membership#, August 08 membership#
Birmingham: 10, 11
Brazil: 50, 66
Chicago: 35, 33
Denver: 27, 23
Georgia: 13, 14
Mexico: 11, 11
NY Metro: 24, 24
Philadelphia: 63, 59
Portland OR: 14, 13
Romania: 7, 7
SE Michigan: 9, 10
Tampa Bay: 15, 17
Washington DC: 39, 39

Forming Chapters
Chapter: membership #
Boston: 7
Charlotte: 3
Montreal: 1
Nordic: 10
Panama: 0
Paris: 1
Phoenix: 6
Vancouver: 2

Potential Chapters
Australia
China
Cincinnati
Dubai
Lebanon
Omaha
Pakistan
Spain
UK

September 10th Event - You can't miss it!

Please join us for the Quarterly ABPMP meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday, September 10, 2008, at 4:30 -6:30 PM, at the Turner Broadcasting System, 1050 Techwood Dr NW,Atlanta, GA 30318.

Our special guest speaker, Kristin Howlett is also a 2008 'Women in Technology(WIT) - Women of Year' nominee!

Come and learn how Kristin has put DeKalb County, Georgia in the ranks of the Fortune 500 companies. Kristin will address initiatives that have earned her speaking engagements at several BPM conferences and panel discussions at Harvard's Business School. She will specifically address a process improvement solution that is gaining exposure and replication in many of the larger cities/counties spanning the US.

Hear how DeKalb County Government turned the implementation of a “call center” into the largest process improvement project the county has undertaken. Hear Kristen explain how DeKalb's “311”, once known as the governmental “Citizen Shuffle,” has evolved into a central point of communication for citizens and their governments across the country.

Click here to register! Tell us your coming a join the BPM family of Georgia!