Saturday, November 28, 2009

Introduction: The zero-code promise

Business process management (BPM) is becoming popular among business users to capture business process requirements in the form of a process model. The business team can then use existing methodologies to improve the process. The Business Process Management System (BPMS) can help technology teams execute the process modeled by business users as well as measure process execution data and present it to the users in an understandable form. Business users can then analyze the data and identify the areas of improvement for the process.

Business users have talked a lot about BPM, but not much has been said about what BPM and BPMS has in store for developers. The newly published BPM 2.0 specification promises a zero code upon implementing BPMS. That is, according to the specification, if business services are already available, business users can model the process and execute without writing any code. Can this zero-code promise be a threat to the developer community? In this article you explore the changes in system implementation methodology and in responsibilities of developers that may result from this new paradigm.

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