Category: Business Analysis

  • BPM Skills in 2022 – Hot or Not

    BPM Skills in 2022 – Hot or Not

    Like in the past years I have a great pleasure to present you new post from the “BPM skills” series. You can read the past editions here.

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  • Building Business Capability 2021

    Building Business Capability 2021

    For a third time, BPM Tips is a media partner of Building Business Capability 2021, the official conference of the IIBA.

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  • BPM Skills in 2021 – Hot or Not

    BPM Skills in 2021 – Hot or Not

    To say that 2020 was unexpected would be an understatement. What will 2021 bring? Which process management skills will be hot and what is the role of process-related skills in the “new normal”? Check out the next edition of “BPM skills” post.

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  • Building Business Capability 2020

    BPM Tips is a proud media partner of Building Business Capability 2020, the official conference of the IIBA.

    This year, for obvious reasons, BBC will be a virtual conference. It will take place on October 19-23, 2020.

    You can participate in livestreams of conference sessions and workshops (recordings are also available, so you can watch everything you want) PLUS new options possible thanks to the new format of the event:
    * BBC Conference Extra
    * Practitioner’s Chats
    * BBC People’s Choice Discussions
    * Virtual Coffee Roundtables and
    * BBC Beyond

    With nearly 100 presenters, 18 conference tracks and 4 trails there are hundreds of possibilities for you to learn something useful and meet new people.

    Learn more about BBC 2020 and register. If you plan to attend BBC 2020 the following code “BPMBBC” will give you a 15% discount.

    PS. You can also watch selected recordings of sessions from BBC 2019 to see how much you can learn there!

  • Back to school 2019: free online courses for BPM professionals

    Back to school 2019: free online courses for BPM professionals

    Since holidays are over, it’s time for a new edition of this post 🙂 (You can also read the past editions from 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015).

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  • What are the best podcasts for BPM practitioners

    What are the best podcasts for BPM practitioners

    Do you know a story from “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” about a man who tries to saw down a tree?

    He was working hard for hours but without success. And it was because he did not take a break to sharpen a saw.

    What was his reasoning?

    “I don’t have time to sharpen the saw. I am too busy sawing.”

    How is this story connected with a daily life of BPM practitioners?

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  • Tips for new Business Analysts

    Tips for new Business Analysts

    Recently I had a chance to make a presentation about new trends in BPM for a group of Business Analysts from Tricity.

    To make this more useful for participants I asked few of the best BAs in the world to share their tips for the fresh analysts. Today I want to share those tips with you too.

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  • BPM books – 2017 reading list

    Do you want to learn more about Business Process Management? Below you can find a list of BPM related books that I have read and recommend as well as those that I plan to read.

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  • Win book Questioning BPM? signed by Paul Harmon

    Win book Questioning BPM? signed by Paul Harmon

    Do you want to know answers for the 15 most important questions about Business Process Management AND have something really unique?

    I am running a giveaway, where you can win two copies of recent book Questioning BPM? edited by Paul Harmon and Roger Tregear with Paul Harmon’s signature.

    This book is unique in many ways as it gives you answers to 15 important questions about BPM today, not by a single expert, but 33 BPM thought leaders.

    Enter the giveaway.

    The giveaway is over. Congratulations to winners: Katherine and Muhammad!

    Visit the publisher page to buy the book.

     

  • BPMN for Business Analysts – why, when and how

    BPMN for Business Analysts – why, when and how

    One of the most important elements of every Business Analyst’s toolkit is process modeling, which is also significant activity for Business Process Management professionals.

    For BPM market BPMN is now the standard for modeling processes. But is it also the case for BA’s?

    To find out what are the best practices, I asked some of the best BA and BPMN experts in the world a simple question:

    “Why, when and how should business analysts use BPMN?”
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