End events describe how a process ends. Often, the end of one process can initiate other behaviors within a business process. Like death and taxes, every business process has an end. Sometimes more than one.
Product Management
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Free Webinar on Strategic Product Management
Sit back and enjoy a cup of coffee while listening to a great, 30 minute, presentation by Barbara Nelson, Pragmatic Marketing instructor. Citrix is hosting a free webinar for (well, for everyone, I guess), in exchange for contact information. Barbara presents a great overview of the strategic role of product management, and Pragmatic’s framework. For people who’ve previously attended the PPM training, this is a good refresher – for other folks – if you want to know why product managers should be doing strategic work, check this out.
Product Management / Requirements
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Inside Out is Backwards – Feature Focused or Goal Driven
Kathy Sierra has another great post on the problems people face when using products. One of the sources of the problems is when engineers think “from the inside out” and focus on features or capabilities. People have goals, and they want to achieve goals, not use capabilities.
Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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BPMN Diagrams – Digging Artifacts
Artifacts are more than business detritus. Documents are created in business processes that represent actionable information. See how to represent these useful artifacts in business process modeling notation.
Requirements / Requirements gathering / Software development / Testing
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Quality and Requirements – You Got Chocolate In My Peanut Butter
Quality writers are writing about requirements. Requirements writers are writing about quality. Just like the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup – Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together. You can’t have one without the other.
Agile / Prioritization / Project Management
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Agile Prioritization and Tracking
Stealing a couple cool ideas for managing project priorities with something you can touch.
Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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BPMN Diagrams – Go With The Flow
BPMN Diagrams document business processes. Those processes have a flow to them, and that flow can branch and merge. It has a beginning and an end. Flow happens from the perspective of a single organization or person – but multiple people can talk to each other. Learn how to diagram flow and messaging in this article.
Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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BPMN Diagrams – How To Use Subprocesses
This article shows how to use the different types of subprocesses in BPMN diagrams. Examples of normal subprocesses, looping, multiple instance, ad hoc, and compensation subprocesses.
Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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BPMN Diagrams – How To Use Tasks
This article shows how to use the different types of tasks in BPMN diagrams. Examples of normal tasks, looping tasks, multiple instance tasks and compensation tasks. Background We presented an introduction to BPMN diagrams two weeks ago. Business analysts are often required to document as-is processes and to-be processes. These […]