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Is there a governing body for lifecycle development/management of BPM solutions?
By admin | December 10, 2007
Is there a consortium or governing body working a standardized methodology for the lifecycle development/management of BPM solutions? I’m very aware of BPEL etc. but was more concerned with the methodology and “Best Practices” aspects.
- John D
John,
I am unaware if any BPM methodology standards or consortium groups that are active at the moment. Just to make sure I was accurate, I called around my network to find out if any groups had sprouted while I was “heads down” on assignments. Alas, the news is not promising. You have a couple of choices for methodologies.
1. Follow one method like Lean Six Sigma, Rummler/Brache, a boutique BPM solution provider, a large solution provider with a BPM practice or a modified SDLC (systems development life cycle). The pure SDLC is not recommended and Gartner calls it a worst practice.
2. Build a Toolbox approach that uses the best parts of each of these methodologies to create and evolving hybrid by adding best practices that get documented in papers, blogs etc.
3. Select a method provided by a BPM tool provider once a tool is selected and/or just fill in the data needed to drive the tool. This is a very bottom up approach and may disengage the business folks.
None of these are particularly appealing unless you can work a knowledge transfer plan from a solutions provider. This is not likely as they want to keep the meter running.
Jim
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