Introduction
Members of the BPX community have begun to create illuminating "true life" stories of Business Process Improvement projects, complete with casts of characters and scenarios. These community members have been collaborating based on three goals.
1. Create a better understanding of the role in the BPX in the current organizational structure
2. Test different methodologies for project lifecycles based on Web 2.0 technologies (Wikis, Blogs, etc.). This lifecycle is from project initiation to project conclusion with an actual implementation.
3. Provide public available examples of projects that are based on SAP's Enterprise SOA technology (Enterprise Services, Guided Procedures, CE, etc.)
In order to meet these goals, different pilots have been started - each with a different methodology and structure.
The resulting lessons learned will be publicly available for the entire community to benefit from this collaboration. There is a list of interesting questions that should examined in more detail.
Your participation
How you participate?
- Join one of the projects and actively contribute to creation of a project.
- You can edit the Wiki pages and improve the content
Why you should participate?
- Technical skills are critical for the success of the BPX. Participation allows for these skills to improved.
- Provides a setting where BPXs can use technology and methodology that may not be currently possible in their own organization.
- Follow a typical Enterprise-SOA project from beginning-to-failure to get a better understanding of the role of the BPX in the entire process.
- Get to know other community members and collaborate with them on "real-life" issues that effect all.
If you are a Community Project supporter, please add a *badge*to your profile.
Current Projects:
- This community project takes a Merger of two companies and applies the SAP BPM Method
- IM is used to role play the various sections of the community project and scripts showing the interaction area created.
- Characters are taken from the first Big Machines Project - so Bert and Ernie are back.
"These are some of the best illustrations on the process of mapping out business processes I have ever seen. You know, I used to teach at the Norwegian School of Management (BI) and the students would be largely ignorant towards all the "small problems" in the real world. Case material like this was highly valued, but rarely readily accessible."
-A BPX Community member talking about the Community Project | 
