People ⋮ Processes ⋮ Information Technology
This study year (2017/18) is already the 5th iteration of running the Business Process Modeling course at the local university. And while the curse evolves with each iteration, its technological basis remained the same during the past years, namely BPMN 2.0. The main objective of my Business Process Modeling course is that the students attain a …
Nowadays, every office worker hand-writes on paper as well types on a keyboard. Ever wondered what type of storing information is better? Well, there is a lot of information and theory out there, which compares these two memorizing approaches as the one, presented on figure below. But here is my personal story. The majority of …
In 2009 I published an article in Dr. Dobb's journal entitled "Unicode and Java Web Applications - i18n isn't a turnkey even with Java's native Unicode support". In the article I addressed 'character encoding' - related i18n problems by providing experiences-based guidelines and Java-based examples on how to enable UTF-8 support in multi-tiered Java-based Web applications. …
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It was almost an instant decision accepting an offer to prepare a BPM/BPMN workshop for a life-insurance company, located in 15 million metropol Istanbul. And I didn't regret it, in any case. How it all begun In February I've been contacted by Nobleprog, a global training and consultancy provider, if I would be prepared to …
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While there was so much interest for downloading my presentation entitled "Business process modeling with BPMN (2nd edition)" on SlideShare, I've decided to open them (at least temporary) for the download. Many thanks for making the slides so popular. They are the first result of the SlideShare search with the keyword 'BPMN' and have been …
If you are interested in topics related to business process modeling with BPMN, you may check white papers I've authored for Orbus Software. And here are the abstracts of the whitepapers. Modeling transactions with BPMN 2.0 Do you need to model business translations in a standardized way? Check this white paper! Similar to databases, transactions …
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The web is full of guidelines and templates on how to document processes. However the majority of them is partial - related to the description of the workflow-related information only (e.g. process activities, process boundaries, process inputs and outputs, process roles, etc.). Process documentation is more than just a process diagram. There is process-related information …
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The title of this post is a quote authored by Zora Neale Hurston and it gorgeously reflects what is scientific research about. Is represents the production of new knowledge, a scientific one, which is based on a proven research methodology. And here is one of my small contributions on how to perform it. Back in 2008, …
Are you interested in business processes and the corresponding ISO standard - BPMN and do you prefer to learn by videos instead of slides? And you have only two minutes of time per day? In this case I recommend you to watch Orbus software's BPMN Distilled series of short videos, which give you a good foundation …
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While having record low temperatures of the season, the summer semester starts today at University of Maribor. This semester I will provide the following lectures: Business Process Modeling (1st Bologna stage on ICT study program). Business Process Management (2nd Bologna stage on ICT study program). Empirical Research Methods (2nd Bologna stage on ICT study program). While …
Gregor Polančič 