http://www.itworld.com/business-process-mgmt xx http://www.itworld.com/nls_ebizcomplex050531 The complexity of a business process, Tesler tells us, is like energy, it cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be moved around from one place to another.To be more accurate, Tesler's law says that for any process, there is a base level of complexity that is inherent to that process. Once you hit that base, you cannot simplify the process any more. You can only move the inherent complexity from one place to another. http://www.itworld.com/nls_ebizcomplex050531#comments Business Development Opinion business process mgmt Tesler's law Thu, 19 May 2005 14:28:11 -0400 jnaze 14174 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/041208bizprocess A new study from the Delphi Group suggests that a significant part of the problem in tackling major IT projects lies not in the software itself, but in the business processes surrounding the deployment. Seventy percent of the respondents to an ongoing Delphi survey said they consider capturing and documenting business requirements a difficult process - and more than 60 percent said their organization has trouble implementing changes to its processes and policies. http://www.itworld.com/041208bizprocess#comments BPM Career News business process mgmt Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:01:26 -0500 abennett 17188 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/041018jboss JBoss Inc. has added business process management (BPM) to its growing roster of open source software. The company has hired Tom Baeyens, the founder and lead developer of jBpm, an open source workflow engine, it announced Monday. http://www.itworld.com/041018jboss#comments BPM Open Source News business process mgmt jBoss Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:01:01 -0400 abennett 18234 at http://www.itworld.com