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December 4, 2007

Using a process... What a concept!

As with many things in life, the mindset of many is related to instant gratification:

• Wall Street wants results this quarter! No matter what it does to next quarter's results...
• Software release dates must be this month! No matter how many bugs that creates for next month...
• Business activity/process stakeholders want results in the short-term! No matter how flawed the process that created those results...

Raj Ramesh has an article on the use of process over ad-hoc methodology in association with business activity/process management.

Remember, an exercise program has to be regular and well defined to be of benefit to the human body. In the same vein, a business activity/process program has to be a regular iterative process to achieve the long-term improvement goals set forth by its stakeholders. Yes, those same stakeholders who want those results sooner as opposed to later. :)

Technorati Tags: BAM, Business Activity Monitoring, Project Management, Process-Based, Ad-hoc, Raj Ramesh

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November 20, 2007

Planning to Fail? Failing to Plan...

If there is a lesson to be learned from life, history, etc, it is the following:

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

Joel Spolsky's article on project management is a great common sense look at a few easy to avoid issues. Everyone knows there and everyone repeats these mistakes.

For BAM implementations, it is important to follow these rules. Often times, a BAM implementation will be met with skepticism and doubt. By using these tried and true lessons learned, initial BAM efforts can focus more on the substance than by simple mistakes.

Technorati Tags: BAM, Business Activity Monitoring, Project Management, Joel Spolsky, Lessons Learned

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