Using Service Oriented Architecture concepts for database replication
Is SOA really useful for database replication? Yes and no. This posting will discuss a dilemna that a project of…
How to encourage your outsourcing partners to avoid waterfall processes
Wrote an article a few days back and posted it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/articles/243442.aspx This article is directly aimed at folks who…
Agile Vendor Management – removing waterfall from outsourced projects
The Tyranny of Waterfall in RFPs When I was in consulting, we would routinely bid on RFP (Requests for Proposal)…
Workflow patterns – so much more left undone
I have been following the progress of Dr. Wil van der Aalst in his efforts to create a patterns language…
The infancy of workflow diagramming standards
I did something foolish recently… I criticized someone for an analysis diagram that, I felt, didn’t use “standard” workflow notations.…
Document Management as a foundational technology for Workflow
I like the term “foundational technology”. It sounds so much cooler than it is. I have no idea if there…
YAWL — must see TV for Workflow practitioners
YAWL – Yet Another Workflow Language I suppose the name would be funny, if the idea for the name wasn’t…
Is workflow best represented by something other than a graph?
A few days ago, I blogged about the three layers of abstraction for workflow items. Now, I’m going to think…
Messages vs. Documents in a Workflow System
Using workflow systems can be interesting. Everyone has a good idea of how to solve the “workflow problem,” and it…
Three levels of abstraction in Business Process Management
I’ve been thinking about the levels of abstraction that Martin Fowler defines in software development: a conceptual view, a specification…