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Yes, it’s true! The BPM / SOA Community of Practice has extended the deadline on the Business Agility and Process Optimization enabled by BPM and SOA Case Study Competition. Entries are due July 30, 2010.
Beware, this is the *final* final deadline. Start your submission here. To learn about the purpose, rules and such, go here.
[Disclosure: The BPM / SOA Community of Practice is a client of my firm, Elemental Links.]
The BPM/SOA Community of Practice’s EA2010 Group is returning to the discussion forum. Starting next week, EA2010 will pursue a new line of discussion and research focusing on the business aspects of successful enterprise architecture practices. Items for discussion include:
All members of the BPM/SOA Community of Practice are welcome to participate in the EA2010 Working Group. For more information, see the EA2010 working group page.
Did you miss the group’s prior work? Last year, the EA2010 team pursued a line of discussion and research on the purpose, practices and realities of expanding, or in some cases starting, business architecture practices. This work stream culminated in the publication of an EA2010 Business Architecture whitepaper.
And yes, the BPM/SOA Community of Practice is the renamed, post-merger, combination of the SOA Consortium and BPM Consortium.
[Disclosure: The BPM/SOA Community of Practice is a client of my firm, Elemental Links.]
The BPM/SOA Community of Practice (CoP), in partnership with BPTrends and TechTarget, is sponsoring the “Business Agility and Process Optimization enabled by Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)” Case Study Competition. The competition is open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies, which have successfully delivered business or mission value using a BPM, SOA or combined BPM-SOA approach.
Similar to the SOA Consortium’s contests in 2008 - 2009, the goal of the BPM/SOA Case Study Competition is to highlight business success stories and lessons learned to provide proof points and insights for other organizations considering or pursuing BPM, SOA or combined BPM-SOA adoption. To qualify for the competition, the project must be complete with demonstrated business results.
Entries will be judged on the complexity of the business problem addressed, the ROI/Business Value achieved (Agility/Innovation/Flexibility/Optimization/Resilience/Service Delivery), the level and sophistication of the cross-organizational collaboration (Business/Technical) and the usage of BPM/SOA approaches and supporting technology. In addition to one overall winner, organizations will be recognized by industry/government.
Case Study Competition winners will be announced at the BPM/SOA CoP meeting in Cambridge MA on September 21, 2010 and will be featured on the BPM/SOA CoP website and in October publications by BPTrends and TechTarget.
Visit the contest homepage to learn about the guidelines, peak at the application, and meet the judges. Submissions will be accepted through June 29, 2010.
[Disclosure: The BPM/SOA Community of Practice is a client of my firm, Elemental Links.]
As I mentioned earlier, I went to the ITLC Conference this week to speak on SOA. The official session title was “Driving Transportation Efficiencies with SOA”. The format was two 30 minute presentations, followed by a Q&A period. My co-conspirator was none other than Maja Tibbling, Principal Enterprise Architect for Con-Way Transportation.
As you may recall, Con-Way was a winner in the 2008 SOA Consortium Case Study Contest. Con-Way has a great business transformation story, powered by SOA and Event Processing.
After Maja delivered the SOA in Transportation presentation, I gave a new 30-minute talk on “6 Secrets to Successful SOA”. The secrets all pertain to standing up and managing a successful, sustainable program. The discovery of these secrets was through my work with the SOA Consortium and Elemental Links (workshops, consulting).
I’ve posted the presentation to slideshare. Take a look. And yes, you can use the slides, with attribution to me.
On Friday, David Linthicum invited me on his cloud computing podcast to chat about what we heard, and didn’t hear, at the Cloud Connect conference. Naturally, our discussion wound its way to the connections of cloud computing, enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture and data architecture.
Our podcast is Picking Apart Cloud Connect. Check it out.
