BPM THINK TANK AGENDA
Miami, Florida
Tuesday, March 1- Thursday March 3

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TUESDAY, March 1, 2005                  EXECUTIVE DAY

                co-produced with Black Forest Group

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Registration

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast (Lobby Level)

9:00 am – 9.30 am

WELCOME
 Jeanne Baker, BPMI Chair and Kevin Vaughn, BFG Chair

Delivering the promise of BPM and the business value of executable process.
What it means and how organizations benefit from it.
 

9:30 am – 10.00 am

The Process Life Cycle

Bruce Silver, Industry Analyst, Bruce Silver Associates

Where do standards, technology and practice help with process design, deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization?
 

10:00 am – 10:45 am

Case Study: Process Management in a Major Enterprise

Jaakko Riihinen, Chief Enterprise Architect, Nokia (Finland)

Focusing on the core business issues of Process Management, this session will explore the relationship between Process Architecture, Enterprise Architecture and the Business and Operating Models employed in Nokia. It will highlight the need for an overarching Process Management Framework that emphasizes speed, flexibility and low cost operation, highlighting issues of governance and organizational roll-out.

The session will end with a discussion of how effective process standards can help protect and enhance the value of key operating assets – its business processes.
 

10:45 pm – 11:00 pm

Morning Break

Coffee and  cookies on the Veranda overlooking the ocean
 

11:00 am – 12.30 pm

Closing the Gap Between Business and Technology:

Panel: Strategy Chiefs from IT Business Users

• Carl Allen, Manager of Corporate IS Security, Intermountain Health Care, USA;

• Gary Baker, Process Executive and Managing Director EDS,
  GM Global Supply Chain & Global Business Services  USA,

•  Michael Grad, Partner, New Vista Group LLC, USA

•  Chris Lawrence, Business Architect, Old Mutual SA.

Moderated by Dr Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

“What We Want” BPM Requirements: Challenges for BP Standards Bodies
 

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Closing the Gap Between Business and BPM:

Session based on running ‘Magic Exercise’ three times with delegates going to a different table each time – see Roundtable Magic Exercise in the Roundtable Issues

Select Roundtable Issues
Executive Roundtable Issues (PDF Format)

• Paul Harmon, Editor, BP Trends, USA
• Carl Allen, Manager of Corporate IS Security, Intermountain Health Care, USA;
• Chris Lawrence, Business Architect, Old Mutual, South Africa.
• Jean-Yves Gresser, BFG vice-Chair, France
• Gary Baker, Process Executive and Managing Director EDS, GM Global Supply Chain & Global Business Services  USA
• Nathaniel Palmer, Vice President & Chief Analyst, Delphi Group, a Perot Systems Company, USA
• Bruce Silver, Principal, Bruce Silver Associates, USA
• Michael Grad, Partner, New Vista Group LLC, USA
• Jukka Riivari, Meridea Financial Services Ltd, Finland
• Jon Pyke, WfMC Chair, UK

Working Lunch: 10 Focus Area Roundtables

Group leaders chair discussions on “What We Want”
 

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Closing the Gap Between Business and BPM:

Focus Areas Roundtables continued “What We Want”

Group leaders synthesize, summarize and present findings to standards bodies
 

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Afternoon Break

Stroll on the beach with ice-cream cones
 

4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

Closing the Gap Between Business and BPM:
Moderated by Jeanne Baker, BPMI Chair

• OASIS (James Bryce Clark, Director of Standards Development for OASIS),

• OMG (Fred Cummins, Fellow EDS and Director OMG)

• WfMC (Jon Pyke, CEO TheProcessFactory and Chair WfMC)

Leaders from standards bodies review the challenges from IT Business Users with the goal of returning to these issues tomorrow in greater detail
 

4:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Synthesis and Wrap Up

Session leaders: Derek Miers, BPMI Director and
Dr Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology
 

5:15 pm – 7:30 pm

BPM Think Tank Showcase and Welcome Reception

(Atlantic and Veranda)
 

 
WEDNESDAY, March 2, 2005    TECHNOLOGY DAY

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Registration

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast (Lobby Level)

9:00 am – 9.30 am

Keynote Address

Jan Popkin, Popkin Software and Director, BPMI.org

The BPMI.org Vision
 

9:30 am – 10.30 am

The Standards Landscape.

Moderated by Jeanne Baker, Chair BPMI.org

Overview of what is being accomplished by today's most influential standards bodies. Standards chairs describe the focus and goals of their respective organizations.
(15 mins each)

• BPMI (Director BPMI.org -TBC),

• OASIS (James Bryce Clark, Director of Standards Development for OASIS),

• OMG (Richard Soley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Object Management Group)

• WfMC (Jon Pyke, CEO TheProcessFactory and Chair WfMC)

10:30 am – 11.00 am

11:00 am – 11:15 am

 Morning Break

Coffee and iced tea on the Veranda overlooking the ocean
 

11:15 am – 12.30 pm

 Technology Roundtable Sessions

Select Roundtable Issues

Focus Areas Roundtables

• Transactions – Rick Mattock (Fuego)

• Business Rules – Paul Vincent (Fair Isaac)

• Human Collaboration – Justin Brunt (TIBCO)

• Mobility – Jukka Riivari (Meridea)

• Process Runtime Interactions – Setrag Khoshafian (Pegasystems)

• XPDL – Robert Shapiro (Global 360)

• BPQL – Mike Marin (FileNet)

• Web Services/SOA – Jean-Jacques Dubray (Attachmate)

• BPMN, BPDM & UML – Fred Cummins (EDS)

• ebXML – Monica Martin (Sun and co-chair of the OASIS ebXML Business Process Technical Committee)

Session based on running ‘Magic Exercise’ twice with delegates going to a different table for next exercise – see Roundtable Magic Exercise in the Roundtable Issues
 

12:45 pm – 1:30 pm

 Lunch Break
 

Lunch in “The View” Restaurant on Lobby Level

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm

 Focus Areas Roundtables continues

Group leaders synthesize, summarize and present findings to standards bodies
moderated by Derek Miers. BPMI Director
 

2:00 pm – 2:40 pm

Technology Workshops

BPEL Workshop
A review of the major concepts within WS-BPEL 1.1

Chuck Fenton, Principal Research Engineer, Sterling Commerce

Includes a discussion of collaborations, sample processes and the BPEL syntax for expressing them, overview of the basic activities, structured

activities and fault handling primitives in BPEL. The purpose of the session is to establish a fundamental level of technical understanding of the specification for all participants. Discussion of what BPEL does well and the gaps that remain will be encouraged
 

2:40 pm – 3:40 pm

Workshops - Scoping Extensions to BPEL
Based on feedback from Roundtables 

• Business Process Extension Layers (BPXL)
  Human collaboration, transactions, roll- back, mobility

• Business Process Query Language (BPQL)
  Ability to query and report on the status of business process instances

3:40 pm – 4:00 pm

 Afternoon Break

Stroll on the beach with fruit smoothies

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

BPMN Workshops
Stephen White, Director, BPMI.org, and BPM Architect - IBM Corporation

BPMN workshops with detailed examples of the language and the notation. What are these standards and how they are used to define processes? Who is adopting them? How will they evolve? Includes discussion on challenges/relevance to ebXML BP (OASIS), BPDM (OMG), XPDL (WfMC), WS-CDL (W3C). In addition, extensions to the BPMN will be considered.
 

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Synthesis and Wrap Up

Session leaders: Derek Miers, BPMI Director and
Keith Swenson, Chief Architect Fujitsu and WfMC SC Chair, USA
 

 
THURSDAY, March 3, 2005                    WORKING DAY

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Registration

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast (Lobby Level)

9:00 am – 10.30 am

 Working Group Sessions in Breakouts

Introduction to what will happen in the breakouts, outline and the general scope of goals, workgroup responsibilities etc
 

10:30 pm – 10:45 pm

 Morning Break

Coffee and Bloody Marys on the Veranda overlooking the ocean

10:45 am – 11.30 am

(Ocean Point)

Agreeing the structure, scope and composition of work groups, assigning some early responsibilities

BPMN

OMG/XPDL/ebXML
 

(Atlantic Point)

Agreeing the structure, scope and composition of work groups, assigning some early responsibilities

BPXL-QL

11:30 am – 12.15 pm

(Ocean Point)

BPMN

OMG/XPDL/ebXML
 

(Atlantic Point)

BPXL-QL

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch Break

Working Lunch in respective meeting rooms
 

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

(Ocean Point)

BPMN

OMG/XPDL/ebXML
 

(Atlantic Point)

BPXL-QL

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

 Wrap Up and Goodbye

Jeanne Baker, BPMI Chair and BPMI Board
 

3:00 pm – 3.15 pm

 Afternoon Break

Quick jog on the beach wearing your BPM Think Tank tank top
 

3:15 pm – 5:00 pm

BPMI.org MEMBERS ONLY MEETING

Organizational business.
 

                MEETING CLOSES