Aug 20, 2020
How CMMN never lived up to its potential.
Even before the Object Management Group (OMG) had released the CMMN Specification in 2014, Camunda had already started building a CMMN engine. In the years that followed, we invested in symbol support, modeling capabilities, and admin tools. But after a couple of years, we decided that we would not be adding any more CMMN features to Camunda and that it will simply be maintained but not fully supported. This post is about the experience Camunda and its Community had with the CMMN standard and how this led to the choices we made to first embrace and then distance ourselves from CMMN. The Promise of CMMN Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) was introduced as a direct result of the massive…
By Niall Deehan
Aug 19, 2020
39 pieces of unsolicited advice for Software Engineering Managers
Johannes Hansen is the Senior Director of Process Automation & Technology at Lufthansa, and a long-time Camunda user. You might have seen him presenting Prediction is Nothing Without Fulfillment at CamundaCon Berlin 2019, or met him at one of our Meetups. His advice for Software Engineering Managers, whether they’ve been more than 20 years in the job, or are fresh out of university, is not to be missed:
Aug 18, 2020
From Project to Program: Building your Rockstar project team.
How to create a rockstar project team by playing to individual strengths, and fostering internal collaboration
Aug 17, 2020
Announcing Zeebe 0.23.5 and 0.24.2
New patch releases for Zeebe are available now: 0.23.5 and 0.24.2 and contain various bug fixes as well as minor enhancements. You can grab the releases via the usual channels: Docker Hub GitHub Maven Central Zeebe 0.24.2 is fully compatible with 0.23.4 and 0.24.1, as is 0.23.5 with 0.23.4. This means it is possible to perform a rolling upgrade for your existing clusters. For Camunda Cloud users, Zeebe 0.24.2 is already the latest production version, meaning your existing clusters should have been migrated by the time you see this post. Without further ado, here is a list of the notable changes. Zeebe 0.23.5 All bug fixes in 0.23.5 are part of 0.24.2 as well, except one, which was already part…
Aug 13, 2020
From Project to Program: Establishing a Center of Excellence
How can you move beyond your first Camunda project and automate hundreds of processes successfully using an agile step-by-step approach? For the last 10 years we’ve been helping businesses to automate workflow processes, migrating from monolithic systems into agile, scalable ways of working. And we’ve discovered that you don’t have to start with a big bang approach – in fact, starting small is the fastest and most effective route to digital transformation. You can catch up on the previous blogs in the series, if you’d like more background before diving straight into this blog, where we’ll look at how to establish and run a Center of Excellence, manage architectural decisions and manage perceptions around your projects. Establish a Center of…
Camunda Optimize 3.2.0-alpha1 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Camunda Optimize 3.2.0-alpha1. In this first alpha release of Optimize 3.2.0, you can get an early look at some improvements and features in advance of the stable Optimize 3.2.0. This release adds following new capabilities: The complete release notes are available in Jira. You can <a href="#how-to-get-it">try out a free trial of Camunda Optimize</a>. New Variable Filter for Process and Decision Reports With this release we are introducing a new type of Variable filter for Process and Decision Reports. Within the Variable Filter modal you can now choose to use ‘contains’ or ‘does not contain’ when filtering process or decision instances based on variables: Alerts to multiple recipients For situations where you would…
Aug 11, 2020
All New Frontend Plugin System for Cockpit starting with Camunda BPM 7.14
We are happy to announce, that Camunda BPM 7.14 (scheduled for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020) includes an all new frontend plugin system for Cockpit. It replaces the current AngularJS 1.8 based plugin system and enables you to extend Cockpit with domain-specific information written in the web-technologies of your choice. What are Plugins Webapp plugins are user extensions that provide custom functionality to Cockpit, Tasklist, and Admin, which Camunda does not provide out of the box. It allows you to embed domain-specific information into Camunda tooling without switching applications. The new plugin system allows you to use the Javascript framework you are most familiar with, whether it be React, Angular, or just plain Javascript. Cockpit is the first webapp to receive…
By Martin Stamm
Camunda BPM Runtime 7.14.0-alpha2 Released
We are happy to share the second alpha release of Camunda BPM Runtime 7.14 with you! This release features the following improvements: All New Frontend Plugin System for Cockpit Support for Spring Boot 2.3 Additional Supported Environments 14 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda for free or Run it with Docker. For a complete list of all improvements, take a look at the release notes. Please also see the list of known issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub. All New Frontend Plugin System for Cockpit We are happy to announce an all new frontend plugin system for Cockpit. The new plugin system allows you to use the Javascript framework you are most familiar with, whether it be…
Camunda’s Evolution: An Open, Distributed Platform
We have recently released the first iteration of the OpenAPI documentation, which is a big step towards making Camunda a more technology independent platform. The journey up until now is very much worth discussing. Camunda started off as a lovely, lightweight java project, which was intended to be used by Java developers to embed in their projects so that they could orchestrate their processes. As far as this mission statement goes – it was, of course, a great success. The features we created focused on the Java ecosystems and the needs of Java developers, which is obvious considering that our community was almost exclusively made-up of Java folk. There came a time, one which I assume happens often for open…
By Niall Deehan
