Ep. 25 - (Another) Ten Things I've Learned

Episode 13 of the What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified podcast, hosted by Roland Woldt / J-M Erlendson, titled "Ep. 25 - (Another) Ten Things I've Learned" was published on June 27, 2022 and runs 68 minutes.

June 27, 2022 ·68m · What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified

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Summary

We made it - 25 long form episodes of the podcast (and 7 "Shorts" as well).  By popular demand - and because our statistics shows it - we are having "(Another) Ten Things I've Learned" episode. This time we are talking about three major areas: How to measure your architecture and improvement programs    1. Architecture / BPM is not about the topics at hand (apps, processes, etc.) it is about people and how people interact with each other    2. When measuring architecture, make things SMART    3. Process Mining is the “next hot thing”, but it is not all and other, older process improvement methods still have their place    4. Process and Task Mining can’t shotgun a Solution How to get your arms around (some of) the people aspects    5. There is a new interest in “Process” while “EA” is still stuck in technology    6. We have a responsibility to enable the next generation of BPM and EA    7. Enablement must include “why”    8. Internal communications cannot come with expectations of attention How the "new reality" in which we work for two years by now will affect us practitioners    9. We need to rethink the role of “The Office”    10. Podcasts and videos are the new way to communicate the topics Please reach out to us by either sending an email to [email protected] or leaving us a voice message by clicking here. The  full show notes, including graphics, further links, credits, and transcript, are available at whatsyourbaseline.com/episode25.

Episode Description

We made it - 25 long form episodes of the podcast (and 7 "Shorts" as well).

By popular demand - and because our statistics shows it - we are having "(Another) Ten Things I've Learned" episode. This time we are talking about three major areas:

How to measure your architecture and improvement programs

1. Architecture / BPM is not about the topics at hand (apps, processes, etc.) it is about people and how people interact with each other

2. When measuring architecture, make things SMART

3. Process Mining is the “next hot thing”, but it is not all and other, older process improvement methods still have their place

4. Process and Task Mining can’t shotgun a Solution

How to get your arms around (some of) the people aspects

5. There is a new interest in “Process” while “EA” is still stuck in technology

6. We have a responsibility to enable the next generation of BPM and EA

7. Enablement must include “why”

8. Internal communications cannot come with expectations of attention

How the "new reality" in which we work for two years by now will affect us practitioners

9. We need to rethink the role of “The Office”