Is this BP-project proposal for real?
Posted by José D. De la Cruz on May 5, 2008
Kalimera,
I have received some feedback about my proposal, and I will try to address the doubts about it. The word simplistic means that it is reductionist: not all the elements are there. It makes it more understandable and crispy. Not doing so will add much further detail very quickly making complexity appear in the process.
If you read carefully, the entries say “simplistic view” meaning that the view is reductionist, not the whole approach.
Why a reductionist view?
As I talk here about a BP-project, I have chosen to retain only three roles. This might be inconvenient for large projects, since the Information Architect, the platform specialists, process owners and other people should participate. Let me say that I focus first on the essential roles only, and that I will introduce other people as soon as the basic model will be described completely. Secondly, the 3 essential roles we cover are the ones that allow to create the Business Process Model. Other roles will allow us to integrate it with the SOA via the web services, know all the details of the information to be exchanged, add the security constraints and the specifics of the exchange protocol, etc. but this is not the core of what we aim to do.
In short, I know no other methodology that can be explained without a basic model. I expect no to create something more complex.
Is it formalized or peer-2-peer?
As many have already understood, this methodology is neither completely RUP-like, nor totally eXtreme-oriented. This attempts to be just a
good, effective combination of both; our goal is to remain eclectic, open to both improvements and customization.
Why RUP? Because it merges the best practices that have been compiled in many years and with experience accumulated in different domains, people know it, and even if the name is as generic as to mean nothing in particular, it also sells because it is as generic as to mean many things –including quality– to many people (It is just that I’m tired of meeting people that demand RUP, and later they show they know not much about it… but the word makes people calm… wow!)
Why eXtreme? Since we want models/code to be executed and validated in short loops, and to think about testing even before modeling, and to guarantee the quality during the execution… there is no other choice.
How many other roles, then?
Each role can be split onto 2-3 roles each, that may be often performed by 1-5 persons each. In really small projects you can find all three roles made by a single person. Of course I will talk about this in a future entry. Please be alert.
Arrivederci
