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Jakob Freund

Apr 9, 2013

New: camunda BPM-Community

Process management is not a bureaucratic evil but can be a key instrument for scalable business models. But to do so we need to get rid of our old ways of thinking. Need an example? The whole Zero Code BPM – Illusion, is one of many errors that have dominated process management in the past. On 18th March we released our BPM platform under an open source license as Business Process Management is impossible without IT (not everyone likes this, but it’s just the way it is). But of course BPM requires a lot more than purely a technical platform. That’s why we are also, bit by bit, providing our knowledge that we have acquired over the years. You can…

By Jakob Freund

Engineering Excellence

Apr 7, 2013

The Camunda Hypothesis

Scott Francis has written an excellent post about the core message of our presentation at bpmNEXT. He called it the “Zero Code Hypothesis”. Though Scott’s summary is completely right in its essentials, I would like to put some details straight: We don’t think that “Zero Code BPM” does not work at all – Zero Coding and our approach are both reasonable, depending on what you have and what you need. The real problem is that most of the zero coding BPM vendors claim that you should use their solution for situations where you actually shouldn’t. We do not condemn the ideas and ambitions often associated with the term “ACM”. Quite the contrary, we even believe that our approach is very well…

By Jakob Freund

Engineering Excellence

Mar 23, 2013

Camunda @bpmNEXT 2013

bpmNEXT has definitely been a Home Run, as Bruce Silver puts it. Bruce has impressively succeeded in creating a real think tank event for BPM thought leaders sharing their ideas, visions and quite a lot of crazy new stuff around BPM. For those of you who do not know him: Bruce Silver is the BPMN Guru in the US, and I really admire him for both his competence and all that he has done for the standard. Rest assured that a good deal of BPMN’s amazing success is due to him. That said, it should not be surprising how excited I was when discovering in his Review Post a comment about my presentation of Camunda Cycle, one of the numerous…

By Jakob Freund

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