Presentación en Taller Internacional BPM III - 4 Agosto 2011

Aquí están las slides de la charla que di el pasado 4 de Agosto en el Taller Internacional BPM III, en Santiago, Chile.
Tuvimos una muy buena discusión después de la charla, interesantes preguntas de la audiencia.

La charla da una mirada estratégica para decidir cómo comenzar a abordar BPM y la Arquitectura Empresarial en una organización. Es la Fase 0 (cero), en la cual se debe planificar y decidir cómo iniciar el camino.

La presentación se puede descargar aquí.

Proyectos grupales Curso Control Estratégico de Procesos de Negocios

Recientemente he dictado el curso Control Estratégico de Procesos de Negocios en el MBE (Master in Business Engineering) del Departmento de Ingeniería Industrial de la Universidad de Chile.
Los proyectos han sido desarrollados en el curso por 7 grupos de 3 estudiantes , analizando un log de ejemplo del proceso de compras de SAP. Cada grupo realizó minería de procesos (Process Mining) del log, descubriendo el proceso y luego analizando las 3 perspectivas: proceso, organización y casos. Además, cada grupo identificó y propuso iniciativas de mejoras al proceso.
Cada grupo utilizó Futura Reflect para realizar el proyecto de minería y análisis.

Los estudiantes realizaron el análisis de muy buena calidad en tan sólo 2 horas, lo cual demuestra la efectividad y eficiencia de Process Mining para el Control Estratégico de Procesos de Negocios. Aquí están las presentaciones de cada grupo con sus análisis, presentadas a un cliente ficticio.

• Grupo 1 (Cristián Castillo, Leonardo Mazella, Aníbal Sotelo)

• Grupo 2 (Litzy Castro, Alfredo Jaldin, Carlo Arambulo)

• Grupo 3 (Karina Molina, Ruben Reyes, Alejandro Texeira)

• Grupo 4 (Renzo Celedón, Matías Tobar, Rodrigo Echeverría)

• Grupo 5 (Nestor Contreras, Elias Musalem, Jorge Pozo)

• Grupo 6 (María José Gorigoitía, Sebastián Gutierrez, Isidora Vielma)

• Grupo 7 (Hernán Bernales, Ismael Aguilera)

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Ricardo Seguel

Curso: Control Estratégico de Procesos de Negocios con Process Mining

Estimados alumnos,

Curso: Control Estratégico de Procesos de Negocios con Process Mining
Master in Business Engineering (MBE)

Contenidos para el control:
- Slides 1 de Agosto - Ricardo Seguel (Descargar aquí)
- Slides 2 de Agosto - Hugo Seguel (Descargar aquí)
- Paper Audit 2.0 (Descargar aquí)
- Reporte 3 BPM Chile: Control y Rediseño Estratégico de Procesos (Descargar aquí)

Paper para discusión 5 de Agosto:
- Paper Process Mining an Industrial Application (Descargar aquí)

Saludos,
Ricardo.

Book: Troux Enterprise Architecture Solutions

Packt Publishing has just released the book Troux Enterprise Architecture Solutions, which is focused on aligning the IT portfolio to the strategy by defining an Enterprise Architecture, using the Troux EA solution.

Here there is a sample chapter.

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Ricardo Seguel

Successful Workshop BPM Chile Group

I'm very happy with the success of the BPM Workshop that I organized in Chile last August 12 with the BPM Chile Group together with the University of Chile. The event had 250+ people which are group members and among them there are consultants, managers and chiefs of IT and Process areas.

Fig. 1: at the right side the Chilean BPM experts and at the left side, part of the audience.

Fig.2: Hugo Seguel chairing the Workshop and me at the background

The pictures gallery is available here
The video of the complete Workshop is available here (in Spanish)

I'm very thankful of the Chilean BPM experts that gave the presentations and the University of Chile for supporting the organization of this great event. Thank you very much to the 250+ members attending the Workshop. Thank God it was a success.

Presentation at ICWS 2010, Miami, USA

Here is the presentation that I gave in Application and Industry track of the ICWS 2010, Miami, USA; of my paper "Generating Minimal Protocol Adaptors for Loosely Coupled Services".

Presentation at ICWS 2010, Miami from Ricardo Seguel on Vimeo.

To think about the Ph.D. thesis

This video inspires me. After 9 glorious years, Apu finished his Ph.D. in Computer Science to later throw it away.

Available technologies to implement an architecture based on SCA and BPEL

Trying to find a software package that meets all our requirements is always hard. This is even harder if the software is based on new technology standards. I've made a short list with the available software to implement a Service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on Service Component Architecture (SCA) and BPEL technology standards. I know that BPEL is not new, but even so it's hard to find a software package that implements SCA and BPEL together; see Table 1 below.

Technology	SCA	BPEL	Comments
Tuscany+ODE	X	X	open source, just one simple example, lack of doc.
WS O2 - BPS		X	open source, no SCA supported, BPEL engine based on ODE
Petals	X	X	open source, ESB-oriented, lack of examples and doc.
Fabric3	X		open source, no BPEL supported
Mule SCA	X		open source, no BPEL supported
Newton	X		open source, no BPEL supported
Paremus	X		trial available, no BPEL supported
ActiveVOS		X	trial available, no SCA supported
IBM WPS	X	X	no trial available
Oracle SOA 11g	X	X	trial available, many components, no examples

Table 1: SCA and BPEL software packages

The only feasible open source packages available today (March 2010) are Apache Tuscany + ODE, to implement an architecture that uses SCA and BPEL technologies.

The book "Understanding SCA" is a very good guide to start with SCA, but it shows just a chapter of how to use SCA with BPEL in a small example.
There is a coming book of "Tuscany in Action" that will show how to use SCA and BPEL too, but let's see if they show something more than a simple example.

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Ricardo Seguel

Don't forget to donate for Chile earthquake relief

http://www.google.com/relief/chileearthquake/

In Chile in February 27th there was a terrible earthquake of 8.8 and a tsunami in the epicenter region. Since that day there have been more than 186 aftershocks stronger than 5.0.
Many many Chileans lost everything, and many lost their families.

Please don't forget to donate for Chile earthquake relief.
God bless you!

Review of jBPM Developer Guide

In a previous post I mentioned the review of this book from Packt Publishing. Last year I worked a bit with jBPM and JBoss.
I've written this review in Amazon.com.

Review: 3 out of 5 stars

The book is intended for newbie programmers. The contents are a nice tutorial for somebody interested in a hands-on guide.

Pros:
- This is a good starting point for Java programmers that are interested in developing process-aware information systems.
- There are many illustrated examples that can also be downloaded.
- The authors clearly explain how to set up the basic architecture (tools) for starting to work with jBPM (ch.3) and create the workflow/process models with jPDL (ch. 4, 5 and 10)
- From ch. 6 to 9, the authors detail very nicely how to use persistence with a human-oriented workflow, i.e. jBPM plus a data base.
- Ch. 11 shows possible issues that can be found in the execution environment, which gives a valuable point to this book. Ch. 12 gives an introduction to jBPM in an enterprise deplyment; however, this is so short.

Cons:
- The sections and subsections are not enumerated which is sometimes very confusing for the reader.
- The book is a good introduction to business process development, but it doesn't show any advanced techniques like: execution of BPEL processes for service composition, by using a system developed with jBPM in the architecture described in ch. 12 (p.325).
- Given the introductory level of the book, this looks like a tutorial to develop workflows as we already used to develop with other technologies, but now by using jBPM. The trade-off of using this new technology is that this still doesn't follow a standard like BPMN, BPEL or XPDL. So, I still doubt if there exists a mapping between JPDL and BPMN, and a mapping JPDL into BPEL.
- The authors expend just one chapter (ch. 12) in a more advanced, practical and interesting topic: applicability of jBPM in the enterprise, which should be the core of the book if the idea is to get more Java programmers, CIOs and practitioners into this new framework/technology.

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Ricardo Seguel