Sunday, October 26, 2008
ABPMP GA November Event - Presentation of BPM CBOK
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.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
"Introduction to BPMN" videos are ALL available on ABPMP GA YouTube Channel
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
If you like, you don't like, if you believe the information needs correction, please lets us know.
If you believe this content works for you, or if you want to see other topics discussed, please let us know also.
Don't forget to join the Association of BPM Professionals. To Join the ABPMP please follow this, and then click JOIN!
Friday, October 17, 2008
The BPMN event was a great sucess!
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.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
October 16th - Introduction to BPMN with Rick Geneva
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
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.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
More ABPMP Chapters Forming
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!
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!
Monday, August 18, 2008
Why join the ABPMP Georgia? (Part I)
Did you know that a there are over 14,000 books on Amazon containing the word "Business Process Management"
Did you know that there are almost 2 million blogs that reference "Business Process Management"
Would like to see some consolidation of knowledge?
If you answered "yes" above guess you might be interested in BPM Common Body of Knowledge, or for short CBOK.
What is the CBOK?
The COBK is a comprehensive overview of the issues, best practices and lessons learned collected by the ABPMP.
What does the CBOK contain?
BPM is a constantly evolving discipline. This initial release of the ABPMP BPM CBOK provides a basic understanding of BPM practice along with references to the BPM community and other valuable sources of information.
Why is the CBOK important?
As with any other emerging discipline, BPM finds different groups using language in different ways resulting in conflicting definitions for terms which can confuse discussions on the topic. This Guide to the BPM CBOK encourages the use of a common, agreed upon vocabulary for the BPM discipline.
CBOK is the door to the BPM Family
You should look at the CBOK as the passport to the BPM Family. With the CBOK you will be part of the large community of BPM professionals who use this guide, in conjunction with a variety of other sources of information, to expand and share their knowledge on the practice of BPM.
How can you access the CBOK?
The CBOK is only available to ABPMP members.
Start today. Join the ABPMP. Join the ABPMP family of Georgia.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Exciting news about our ABPMP Georgia
Here's a summary of what we have been doing:
1. The Team as grown – you now have 2 new team member: VP of memberships and VP of Programs. Check all our profiles - http://abpmp.ga.googlepages.com/chapterofficers
2. From Atlanta to Georgia – we went from the Atlanta Chapter to the Georgia Chapter. We believe this will help us attract even more talent and make our chapter stronger. As a consequence we plan to use video and the internet to bring all BPMers in the state a lot closer. If you live in Augusta-Richmond County, Columbus, Athens, Macon or you just want to avoid $4 gas, we are working for you!
3. ABPMP Site Link – we now have an official link to our site from the ABPMP main site - http://www.abpmp.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=156
5. The LinkedIn Group – we have created a LinkedIn group to ensure that paying members of the association can network vigorously to expand the BPM gospel. This will allow us to network in a tool we all know a love!
These are all great and exciting news. Nonetheless, better collaboration tools will not make us successful. We need people like you to work with us by sending suggestion how we can better achieve our objectives.
Feel free to contact the entire team using the e-mail Georgia@abpmp.org or myself at communications.abpmp.ga@gmail.com.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Ready to join the Georgia BPM wave?
Our mission is to help grow a body of BPM knowledge here in Georgia to help those organization and individuals that are serious about Business Process Management.
You know that BPM is a great way to increase efficiencies and cut costs. You know that BPM can assist this economy get back on track faster. You know it and you are passionate about it. Don't let that passion sit idle. We are looking just like you to build the Georgia BPM wave!
ARE YOU READY TO BE A VOLUNTEER?
We're looking for volunteers at the ABPMP Georgia who will help us create a customer centric body of knowledge. If you are an accomplished BPM researcher, if you use BPMS or BPP technology, if you are an avid reader of everything BPM, if you work for BPMS or BPP organizations, or if you are just passionate about BPM, than step forward. Come join your knowledge and know others just like you.
What do YOU get out of this?
- join a temp of people that are riding the BPM wave and inventing the next.
- enhance your BPM knowledge
- join the ABPMP and start working towards your BPM certification
- starting having fun with BPM!
This is AWESOME! I Wanna Join?
Simply email communications.abpmp.ga@gmail.com and tell us about you and why you want to be part of the Team!
See you soon!