There are 9 different intermediate events in BPMN. One of them, called the none intermediate event, is “undefined” in that it doesn’t specify a distinct behavior. Unlike the other intermediate events, the none intermediate event has a single interpretation, and will only be used with a specific methodology.
Software development / Test Automation / Testing
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John Henry, Manual Tester
There’s a piece of North American folklore about John Henry, who was a manual laborer during the expansion of the railroads in our country. His job was being replaced by steam-driven heavy equipment, as the railroad industry applied technology to become more efficient. The same dynamics are happening today with manual testers. We need to make sure that manual testers avoid John Henry’s fate – read on to see why.
Slightly off-topic
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Version Numbering Makes Release Planning Harder
David, at 37signals, writes an interesting post about changing the way their company is managing the naming of new versions of their Backpack information manager product.
David starts with the premise that there is too much feature-creep when scheduling deliveries of software updates.
Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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BPMN Diagrams – Introduction to Intermediate Events
Intermediate events are one of the more complex and expressive elements of BPMN diagrams. Here we introduce the different intermediate events.
Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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BPMN Diagrams – How To Use End Events (Part 2)
This is part two of a two part article. The first part is “How To Use End Events (Part 1)”. 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.
Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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BPMN Diagrams – How To Use End Events (Part 1)
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.