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New Process Podcast#63 - Successful Architecture Implementation — with Roland Woldt#63 Get on this flight with Roland Woldt to learn more about Successful Architecture Implementation.In this episode, I'm talking to Roland Woldt about his new book “Successful Architecture Implementation”. The book is a holistic guide on how to successfully run your Enterprise Architecture — or as I would call it — Business Process Management implementation project. Today’s Guest: Roland Woldt Roland is a BPM, process mining, and transformation consultant, podcast host, and author. Roland has an impressive track record of more than 25 years in the BPM space. He worked as a co...2025-04-0939 min
BPM360 Podcast - Covering Every AngleCut the Crap: Building Better BPM Habits – A Deep Dive with Roland Woldt 🔑 Key Takeaways from the Episode: 1. Bad Habits & BPM: Russell kicks off with a personal story about bad habits and health goals – a metaphor for how organizations drift into process chaos. It’s not about the wrong tool or method but the erosion of good habits over time. 2. Guest Spotlight – Roland Woldt: Roland shares his journey from the German army to becoming a BPM thought leader and author. His new book “Successful Architecture Implementation” bridges theory and practice with a focus on content, governance, and adoption. 3. Practical BPM Advice: T...2025-03-281h 02
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 86 - Successful Architecture Implementation (Roland wrote a book)We are trying something new here at What's Your Baseline? — J-M turns his focus on investigative journalism and starts asking the “hard questions” (and not just the softballs that I get from him at other times) :-)But in all seriousness — this episode of the podcast is a conversation between the two of us, while I play the guest role and did not cheat and did not look into our Notion outline while recording.So, what is it all about? Well — some of you might have heard — I wrote a book, which will be officially published soon (this month...2025-03-101h 01
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedSeason 8 TrailerHey, this is Roland from the What's Your Baseline? Podcast and J.M. was also happy to be here.
Yeah. We're looking forward to our next season, season eight of the What's Your Baseline podcast. Who believes that?
So, J.M. Tell me, what's in stock for season eight?
Well, we've listened to you. You've left us amazing feedback all over the internet, and we're going to make things shorter, snappier, more visual and most importantly for our season eight, forward-looking.
We will spend 2025 talking about the future of process and...2025-01-0800 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 81 - 2024 in ReviewThe end is near … no, not what you are thinking.
2024 comes to a close in about two weeks, and we also end Season 7 of the podcast. And a lot has happened — in the industry, with tools, changes in companies and the life of people in our small community.
Tune in to learn about our thoughts about what we’ve seen in the last year and an outlook for 2025. And there is also an interesting announcement in it 😉
In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline Podcast we talk about:
Merger...2024-12-161h 12
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 73 - Leading High-Performance Architecture Teams: Amy LevineSome organizations seem to perform better, create results faster, and the people in those organizations seem to have fun on top if this? But how can that be when you are currently stretched in all directions and don't know how to get stuff done?
In this episode we are talking with Amy Levine, who is an expert in neuroscience and how it impacts high-performance teams and the leaders (and their leadership style). Science to the rescue!
After a decade leading global productivity for Fortune 100 companies, Amy ventured on her own to help even more high-potential...2024-08-2651 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 72 - The Retirement Challenge: Peggy McCannSome organizations are like a ticking time bomb when it comes to their processes and (IT) architecture."The old guard" is about to leave the organization in masses (and sometimes not voluntarily) and a lot of knowledge about how things are wired up - which is what architecture is all about, right? - will leave as well. And not too many organizations are prepared for this, and rather pretend that the young kid fresh from college can fill the hole. Note to those orgs: they won't.
Our guest in this episode is Peggy McCann - she...2024-07-1055 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 71 - Business Architecture Implementation - A User Story: Breanne CasteelHow do I get started? What is the first thing that I look at? Who will be my allies? What do I need to put in place? When you are tasked to build a brand new Business Architecture practice in an organization that has not had one before is a challenging task. When you have to do this in a 60-year old organization in a field that is relatively unique on the market, that might be even more challenging.
Our guest in this episode is Breanne Casteel, a catalyst for change enablement through collaboration and connections to...2024-06-171h 00
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 70 - BPM Use Cases"I just bought your tool, now you have to tell me what I can do with it".No kidding, that is what one client to said to me once. Well, here is a starter for you - in our latest episodes we are talking about the use cases for Business Process Management (not all of them, because we have that self-imposed limit of an hour-ish length for each episode).
In this episode of the What's Your Baseline Podcast we talk about:
Short review of the Process Lifecycle
(Process) Documentation, publishing, and standardization
(Process) Inventory and...2024-06-031h 10
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 69 - Building Community: Heather WendtWhy do some applications have a large following and their revenues soar, while others are struggling with making a sale and are virtually unknown? Or why do you struggle with building internal acceptance for your program?
One reason might be that the former companies were able to build a community that includes not only users (and ends up being a glorified help desk), but also people who are convinced that your program is the best in its market ("superfans" - there is a whole concept around this, but I don't want to go too far here). But...2024-05-201h 04
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 68 - AI and BPM: Scott ArmstrongAI is *the* hot thing these days and you cannot pass any tool that does not have these two characters attached to it.
That is also true for the BPM space, and this week we have the pleasure to speak with a person who is working in this space for over 20 years and his tool has built in AI already, while other vendors are still thinking about how to integrate it in their stack.
The guest in this episode is Scott Armstrong, CEO of Interfacing, a BPM tool provider. He is a entrepreneur and investor...2024-05-061h 01
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 67: Low-Code/No-Code Automation: Maximilian NeumaierThe age old question: how do you make your processes "evergreen". Well, one way is to update your models on a regular basis (for example to comply with regulations), but is that really "the process" or is it just a picture of it? Your processes come to life when someone performs them and for this you need to be able measure them.
To support the process execution you can use an automation tool (a "heavy" BPMS, RPA, etc.) or you can use a lightweight low-code/no-code tool for this that business units can use themselves to solve...2024-04-221h 03
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 66 - BPM Adoption Framework: Caspar JansYou have chosen to start your BPM journey and are now asking yourself the question "how *DO* I get started?".
Well, one way is to look at a BPM Adoption Framework, the other is to ask someone who has done that before.
We are lucky to speak with someone who fulfills both criteria - our guest today is Caspar Jans, who also already has been a guest in an earlier episode on the show before :-)
Since then he has raised his profile in the BPM space and was recognized as a thought...2024-04-081h 06
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 65 - Data ModelingThis episode closes out the mini series about data, and this time we talk about data modeling. Data models are some of the things that I have seen the least often in projects over the last two decades. Why is that? Is it because it is too geeky, or not interesting enough compared to, say, a process model in BPMN?
But being clear about data is important when it comes to designing solution architectures (and in other use cases, such as regulatory compliance), and the three questions that you have to answer are:
What is the...2024-03-251h 00
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 64 - Data Projects: Wiebke ApitzschA lot of projects are just looking at processes and applications. One thing that typically does not get the limelight is the data that is needed to empower these two things. But why is that? Is it because data is "invisible" and cannot be touched or felt?
Our guest today is Wiebke Apitzsch, who is working in "data" for over 15 years with companies like the Boston Consulting Group. Currently she is working in a small organization named "Datahearts" that focusses on the combination of business, data, and change expertise.Her role is the head of data...2024-03-1158 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 63 - Process Mining Data: Lotte VugsAs we all know, the majority of time in a process mining project is in some form or fashion related to data preparation and a significant lower share of time is spent on the actual analysis. There are multiple ways of getting you data into shape (SQL, visual data modeling tools, etc.), but our guest today has developed an approach and a tool to flip this time relation and shorten process mining projects significantly.
Our guest today is Lotte Vugs, who, after 5 years working as a process mining consultant, co-founded Konekti to speed up data preparation for...2024-02-2657 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 62 - BPM Implementation - A User Story: Martin HollingThis episode is a first for the podcast - we are not talking about something from an external perspective, but speak with someone "in the trenches" who is actively implementing BPM in an 160-year old organization.
Our guest today is Martin Holling, who is working at Kemna (a road construction company in northern Germany) and who has worked at Siemens, as well as a consultant in the BPM space before. His main objective is to figure out processes and how they should be designed and implemented to be efficient and effective. Then you should think about tools...2024-02-121h 04
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 61 - BPM and Process LifecycleWe had a couple of episodes where we discussed the Solution / Process Lifecycle, but this time we look at it from the perspective of Business Process organizations. What we see is a distinction between the different disciplines that are needed to deliver a full solution and there are organizations that see a "them" and "us" between those.Unfortunately, I see a lot of these organizations also display a "mercenary approach" ("I am just here to create this artifact") and don't show the ownership of their part of an solution architecture and the following implementation, roll-out, and monitoring steps...2024-02-031h 04What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedSeason 6 TrailerWelcome to Season 6 of the What's Your Baseline Podcast!
We’ve got another fascinating season coming up, chock full of emerging trends and leading voices from the EA and BPM space.
We will be talking about customer success stories, architecture topics like “data”, and also about how to make YOUR program a success.
See you there!2024-01-2601 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 60 - Operational Intelligence: Shoeb JavedWe are wrapping up Season 5 of this podcast with an episode that I was looking forward to for quite some time now – we are talking about operational intelligence.
What is that, you might ask. Well it is the insights into what your complex organization does by using technology and measuring the important things, while making them visible for you as a decider when you need to take not only the “big decisions”, but all those small decisions that you take dozens or more everyday. Those micro-decisions made by many, many people in organizations that pile up and determin...2023-12-181h 04
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 12 - Writing a book: Michael SchankYou might have heard it in the last episode of the podcast (Ep. 59: Process Inventory), that our guest Michael Schank has written a book ;-)
That triggered two things with us - first, making a WYB Shorts about the process of writing a book and become a published author, and second, nudging Michael for a giveaway of three books to some randomly drawn winners.
To win, you need to do two things:
Follow @whatsyourbaseline on LinkedIn (here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/whatsyourbaseline/),
Add a comment to one of the LinkedIn posts that advertise...2023-12-1111 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 59 - Process Inventory: Michael SchankHow do you plan your transformation? By looking out of the window or asking your two best friends? Or would it be better if you had an overview of all the things that your organization does - in the form of a process inventory?
Michael is a distinguished thought leader and executive, specializing in addressing Digital Transformation and Operational Excellence challenges through his innovative, process-based framework. With over 25 years of experience in the Financial Services industry, he has primarily served as a management consultant, empowering clients with forward-thinking solutions in technology, processes, and risk and spearheading large-scale...2023-12-0459 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 11 - AI and Enablement: Ron Cohen, Peter Dern, Adam EggerLast week's episode of the podcast was a very good conversation about learning and enablement with Ron Cohen, Peter Dern, and Adam Egger, and we could have talked for hours about this topic.
However, the conversation took quite a turn after I asked how the future of learning will look like. But we also were at the top of the hour and we didn't want to cut it out unheard.
The solution to the problem? Another What's Your Baseline Shorts! Enjoy the conversation and -sometimes creepy- outlook into the...2023-11-2615 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 58 - Learning and Enablement: Ron Cohen, Peter Dern, Adam EggerHow do you set up learning and enablement for your architecture/process people? What has changed since the days of instructor-led training, and where will the field of enablement go into the future (hint: it might be creepy for some of us). In this episode of the What's Your Baseline? podcast we are looking into the field of learning and enablement and discuss this topic with three experts of the field, and the background of working/having worked in process organizations.
Ron is the Director Global Learning at iGrafx, and an adept and insightful...2023-11-201h 11
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 57 - Process Mining AnalysisYou bought the tool and now the most critical question for your success comes up: “Now what?”.
This leads to these questions: what you can do in the tools, what can you expect, and -maybe most importantly- what do you do after you’ve done a part of the analysis. You also need to have a “meta process” on how to approach a Process Mining project.
These are all the topics that we are talking about in this episode of the What’s Your Baseline? podcast. Since this is a comprehensive (and long) episode, I have added tim...2023-11-061h 18
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 56 - Center of Excellence (CoE): Gia Thi NguyenImplementing a tool or standing up a new capability can be a complex task. Standing up a Center of Excellence as part of this implementation can help ease the pain for new users. However, it is not always clear what a CoE shall do and how it is integrated into an organization (or where it is located in the org structure). In this episode we are talking with Thi Nguyen about exactly this topic, and he has some interesting -and maybe sometime controversial?- opinions about this topic.
Thi is a Vice President at SAP in Asia...2023-10-231h 02
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 56 - Center of Excellence: Gia Thi NguyenIplementing a tool or standing up a new capability can be a complex task. Standing up a Center of Excellence as part of this implementation can help ease the pain for new users. However, it is not always clear what a CoE shall do and how it is integrated into an organization (or where it is located in the org structure). In this episode we are talking with Thi Nguyen about exactly this topic, and he has some interesting -and maybe sometime controversial?- opinions about this topic.
Thi is a Vice President at SAP in Asia...2023-10-231h 07
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 55 - Podcasting and Architecture: Josèphe Blondaut, Jakub Dvořák, Mirko KloppenburgThe way how we communicate and learn has changed over the last couple of years. One contributing factor is podcasting (or videocasting - we are no purists over here at What's Your Baseline?). By now there are tons of excellent podcasts about Business Process Management, Process Mining, and Enterprise Architecture out there free of charge for you.
We thought that it was a good idea to look at this phenomenon and invited three former guests of our show who also run their successful podcasts to discuss the impact of podcasting for our discipline. Listen to our panel ses...2023-10-091h 03
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 10 - APQC visualized: Moritz BergerThis is another What's Your Baseline? Shorts episode and we are following up with the guest from our last episode, Moritz Berger.
Moritz took the APQC Process Classification Framework and imported it into "The Brain" to visualize the breakdown and connectivity of processes to each other.
Since this Shorts consists mostly of a demonstration, you might want to watch at it on Spotify, YouTube, or on our website at whatsyourbaseline.com/shorts10. And if you like to click through the Brain for yourself, please go here: https://bra.in/3...2023-10-0215 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 54 - APQC: Moritz BergerWe spoke about frameworks and reference content as accelerators in a previous episode (listen here), but one of those is pretty popular here in North America, so that we have a deeper look into the APQC Process Classification Framework today. We are talking with Moritz Berger about the ins-and-outs of APQC, and will extend this conversation with another What's Your Baseline Shorts in a week from now (WYB Shorts 10).
Moritz is a senior leader with credentials in technology strategy, management consulting, sales, business development, marketing, and enterprise architecture. He has 20+ years of global industry experience including AWS...2023-09-251h 07
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 53 - Subject-Oriented Process Management: Christoph PillerProcess Management has a bad reputation of downsizing, replacing humans with bots, and all those other things that one relates to "bad capitalism". But there are also other ways to include humans into process management that are outside of these parameters. And, believe it or not, you still need humans to analyze, design, and improve processes.
Today we are talking with Christoph Piller about the topic of subject-oriented process management.
Christoph, also known as the Process Wizard, has a focus on (S-)BPM, Hyperautomation, Process Sprint, and AI, I empowering businesses and individuals to excel...2023-09-111h 04
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 52 - Process Modeling: Kevin TanSometimes you have to mix up things a bit and come down to the level of practicality ... in this case we are looking at process-bility in this week's episode of the podcast. What that is? Oh, it is the approach to process modeling that our guest Kevin Tan has developed.
Kevin is an accomplished Business Process Analyst with more than 20 years of global experience gained through roles in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and the UK. His industry experience includes insurance, supply chain, utilities, technology, HR, education and telecommunications.
Kevin helps organizations create sustainable c...2023-08-281h 01
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 51 - Design-driven Transformation: James ToomeyWe had the topic of today's episode - transformation - a couple of times on this podcast, even though we did not call the episodes like that. But why?
Because transformation in today's times is not an exception but the reality for all organizations. It is not just "an update by IT", or something that is a "one and done". We all need to change and transform our organizations all the time. However, a lot of organizations are caught in their day-to-day issues and don't plan the change - they don't know how their "tomorrow" should...2023-08-141h 03
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 50 - Sustainability: Anthony GilbreathSome topics seem to be a "stretch too far" for this podcast, and the topic for today's episode seems to be one of those: Sustainability.
But is it? Yes, Sustainability -or the lack of it- is a global problem, that manifests itself in climate change, social restructuring, and many other forms. But it also becomes a topic that organizations have to adjust to in their business practices. And some areas of the world are doing this for decades by now - not only being pushed by the desire to do something good, but also because regulations require...2023-07-311h 05What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedSeason 5 TrailerWelcome back to the What's Your Baseline? Podcast. We are starting our Season 5 (who would have guessed that?) next Monday, July 31, with our 50th episode about Sustainability.
We can't wait to hear back from you :-)2023-07-2801 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 49 - Customer Experience ManagementWelcome to the last episode of our podcast in Season 4 (no worries, we'll be back for a Season 5). Today we are talking about Customer Experience Management, which is complimentary to BPM and EA.
The key difference is that Customer Experience Management has an outside-in perspective on things, versus the inside-out perspective of your organization, which many BPM groups try to capture and manage. The point is that you shouldn't stop with this, but rather create an additional view in your architecture, that then can be designed - just as you design your process or app landscapes.
2023-06-261h 14
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 48 - Enterprise Mining: Mark McGregorWe have spoken about Process Mining and data-driven decision making quite a lot on this podcast.
But does it stop with mining processes? I think the next step is growing this field of data analysis to "Enterprise Mining" where the same idea will be applied to apps, data, orgs, risks, etc. And the idea is the same - get a factual basis from system records and then augment it with human information and interpretation.
Our guest this week is Mark McGregor, a former Research Director at leading IT industry analysis firm Gartner, Mark has an...2023-06-121h 09
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 47 - Process Simulation: John HillWe are at the next step of moving our organizations to the digital twin which will allow us to monitor "the plane" (our businesses) in real-time and compare it with the predictions of the future. This missing step is Process Simulation, a "thing" that existed for years already and was widely underused.
The change though is that the next generation of Process Simulation tools now is much more advanced and uses AI to help with predicting future outcomes of your process and helping finding suggestions on how to improve the process to enable that you reach your b...2023-05-291h 01
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 46 - Gamification and Performance ManagementWelcome to the next episode of our podcast. Today we are talking about Gamification, a topic that we are a bit critical towards, but which seems to be here to stay (it's a generational thing, I guess...). But the twist in this episode is how it influences the performance of your architecture or business process team.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
What is a gamification and what are the core elements?
Why should you gamify everything (or not)?
How do process/architecture and gamification fit?
How to create a gamification strategy
...2023-05-151h 07
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 45 - Why do CIOs need Enterprise Architecture: Luca de RisiEnterprise Architects? Aren’t those the useless people who always say “no”? That is one of the perspectives we have heard about EAs in the past. But what can EAs do and how do the progress from “noisy” to “influential”?
In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline? podcast we discuss the role of Enterprise Architects and the changes to the discipline with Luca de Risi from Mega International, who brings a wealth of experience in this field to the episode.
Luca is Mega’s Chief Executive Officer and he held various leadership positions at the firm before t...2023-05-011h 02
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 44 - Process Notations (And Why They Are Not Important): Walter BrilWhen starting with process management one of the first questions is “what process notation shall I use”. In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline? podcast we discuss this question with Walter Bril, who is one of the co-inventors of the Universal Process Notation (UPN) and why it is not *really* important what notation you should use … it is more important which approach to Business Process Management you choose.
Walter has a strong process knowledge management background, combined with skills and experience in technology management for more than 20 years. Involved in and contributed to the field of pract...2023-04-171h 06
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 43 - Process management for small organizations: Adi KlevitWhat are the needs of a small business compared to a larger one? Can they use the same approaches for process improvement and business process management? Shall they use the same tools?
Yhis week we are speaking with an expert on this topic (and also a small business owner herself - Adi Klevit. Adi is running her own firm that has specialized on helping small organizations with process documentation/process management and helps them to create the consistency that they need ... just like larger organizations. She also runs her own podcast on that topic called "Systems Simplified P...2023-04-0359 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 42 - Structure Your Business ArchitectureI see a lot of separated efforts in organization, and model processes. Aren't these all connected activities that should be coordinated to create a *gulp* architecture that carries the load?
But what is a "Business Architecture" and how is it different from just an assembly of processes? Are these terms synonyms or is there more to a Business Architecture than that?
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
What is a Business Architecture?
Why should I care and where to start?
Align strategy to (business) architecture
Two process views - functional...2023-03-201h 05
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 41 - Organizational Change Management: Jehane AdamIf you have listened to a couple of podcast episodes you know that we are true believers in that the biggest "problem" in any architecture, BPM, or Process Mining project is not the technology or the processes and other architecture views - it is the people!
Getting people along with your change is the hardest thing to do and therefore we are happy to revisit the topic of Organizational Change Management on a semi-regular basis.
Jehane has worked as a Change Management and Business Transformation lead for over 15 years working on large multinational projects in multip...2023-03-0659 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 40 - Strategy to Execution: Dan MarquezDeveloping a strategy for your organization seems like a mystery for a lot of people (and some organizations make a large coin from keeping that mystery), but in all reality it has a big part of “wild guesses” included. In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline Podcast we have Dan Marquez on the show, who knows a thing or two about this topic from his time at Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, or Google.
Dan is a passionate and eminently capable digital transformation professional, and also an expert in helping organizations understand and capitalize on the power o...2023-02-201h 04
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 39 - Lean and Process Mining: Sebastian KotullaA lot of people think that the work is done when they have a process be visualized in their process mining tool and a nice dashboard is built. Nothing could be further from the truth and our guest today, Sebastian Kotulla, talks with us about why that is. To bridge the gap between visualizing data/information to knowledge as the result of the analysis Lean techniques can be applied.
Sebastian has a strong focus on and passion for digital solutions to support business transformation such as virtual factories, computer vision, AI, process mining and engines. As Lean S...2023-02-0600 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 38 - Solution EngineeringWelcome to Season 4 of our podcast. Today we are talking about Solution Engineering, aka Presales, and what you can expect from your vendor's solution engineers (vs. their consultants).
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
What is a Solution Engineer?
What is their primary job focus and their scope of work and process?
What are Consultants (and are they different from Solution Engineers)
What are the required skill sets for Solution Engineers (and Consultants)?
How to work with both - when to contact, what info they need, and what to expect.
Please...2023-01-2355 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 9 - A Holiday Special With Jeremy VoltzToday we have a special What's Your Baseline Shorts episode for you, that has nothing to do with Enterprise Architecture or Business Process Management.
However, we think that you will like it: our guest today is Jeremy Voltz, an indie-soul musician from Toronto, Ontario, who is gracefully letting us use his music for all intros, outros, and intermissions. In this episode we are talking with him about:
how he got into music (he has a PhD in Mathematics)
what kind of music he produces -
how his process works (well, at least a bit of BPM)
and...2022-12-2218 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 37 - (I can't believe it is another) Ten things I've learnedWelcome to another episode of our podcast. In the final episode of the final season for this year, we are talking about another ten things we’ve learned over the years:
How to do things
Transparency is more important than ever
Strategic alignment is key to your success
Sometimes you have to say “no” to requirements
Make clear from the outset how a project’s success is measured
Tools
BPM/EA tools are still too nerdy
Tools need to be simpler - how to get to information in three clicks or fewer
How to provid...2022-12-201h 04
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 36 - Lean and Six Sigma: Ron BakerThere was a lot of buzz around Lean and Six Sigma back in the 80s and 90s, but not today anymore.
However, the practice is not dead and it is still relevant and used in many industries today. And there are good reasons to take a step back and have another look at why it was so successful and what of the practice still creates value and should be included in your process improvement and process excellence initiatives.
Today's guest on the What's Your Baseline Podcast is Ron Baker. He is an American Society of Qu...2022-12-121h 05
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 35 - Facilitating process discovery and design sessionsWelcome to another episode of our podcast. Today we are talking about what to do before, during, and after process discovery and design sessions.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
Before the session
- Identify what to change/purpose
- Identify who to invite
- Create strategic alignment
- What to prepare
During the session
- How to structure a business architecture (> process discovery)
- How to start the session (facilitation)
- Structure of design sessions
- Follow-up sessions
After the session2022-11-281h 13
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 34 - Process Automation: Bernd RückerBeing the reasonable adult seems to be the parallel topic of this week's episode - even though the main topic is process automation. We were just so excited in our conversation that we got carried away
In this episode of the What's Your Baseline podcast we speak with Bernd Rücker. He is a software developer at heart who has been innovating process automation deployed in highly scalable and agile environments of industry leaders such as T-Mobile, Lufthansa, ING, and Atlassian. Bernd contributed to various open-source workflow engines for more than 15 years and is the Co-Founder and Ch...2022-11-141h 03
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 8 - More process mining use casesA few weeks ago (in Episode 30) we spoke about how to select your process mining tool. And the conversation was so good, that we totally overran our planned time of an hour.
But instead of leaving our thoughts about use cases for process mining, that are currently not implemented in standard process mining tools, we decided to use them as a What's Your Baseline Shorts episode. We are talking about:
Customer mining
Processes in the ecosystem
Process mining for sustainability (add this to analysis, not only of one firm, but a chain of more organizations)
Process...2022-11-0709 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 33 - How to inspire people for process: Mirko KloppenburgWe talk (a lot) about technology and processes here on the podcast. But what about the human side of Business Process Management? Do we just forget them and aim for the desired outcome no matter what? No, we don't ...
In this episode of the What's Your Baseline podcast we speak with Mirko Kloppenburg, who started his own company and project "New Process Lab" a few months ago after 20+ successful years at Lufthansa Group.
To start the New Process Lab, he linked the often fuzzy New Work ideas with tangible processes. As symbiosis of Process Management a...2022-10-311h 00
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 32 - Women in Process: Josèphe Blondaut and Gabriela GalicEven given the fact that we are living in the 21st century, it is interesting to see that the percentage of women who studied technology or worked in the process industry actually decreased over time. Which is a sad state of affairs. So the question now is, how we -as an industry- can add more diversity and pick the brain pool of intelligent female professionals. In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline podcast we speak with two women who have taken things into their own hands and started their own initiatives to improve this situation.
Jo...2022-10-191h 06
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 31 - Security Architecture: Rick SmithUpdating the "plumbing" is not sexy. Looking at measures being put in place to avoid the worst case or deal with it when it happens is not fancy. Educating people and reminding them on being alert is exhausting.
However, the topic of Security and Security Architecture is one of the most important things to do, now that we outgrow the industrial age and move into the information age. In this episode of the What's Your Baseline Podcast we are talking with Rick Smith about Security Architecture.
Rick has over 18 years of experience in managing information...2022-10-031h 02
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 30 - How to select a Process Mining toolWelcome to another episode of our podcast. Today we are talking about how to choose a process mining tool, to close the loop to the "How to select an architecture tool" episode (link in the full show notes on whatsyourbaseline.com/episode30).
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
• What are process mining tools and how they are different than other tools (BI tools, modeling tools) and how can they work together
• Features to look at when choosing a process mining tool
◦ Process Explorer (listen to the details what tools today can a...2022-09-191h 08
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 29 - Open Source: Avi GhoshIt is interesting to see how a "fringe idea" became mainstream within just a few years and everyone of us is using the outcome of it in our daily lives (mostly without knowing it - or have you thought what runs your car radio or the datacenter of your preferred search engine?).
But another aspect that still has to gain traction of the Open Source movement is the cultural aspect. How do you develop a SW that is used by billions of people in an all volunteer organization?
The key ingredient for this is to build...2022-09-051h 04
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 28 - Quality Engineering: Wings LiangA few months ago we had an initial look at how to manage and implement change in our conversation with Caspar Jans (in Episode 16) and we are continuing that series with an excellent conversation with Wings Liang about Quality Excellence and how organizations need to "shift left" and can gain competitive advantage by changing their perspective.
Wings helps organizations pave the road to the future by building high-performance teams, aligning organizational structure, shifting colleague mindset and changing the way people work, designing and streamlining end-to-end business processes, and implementing technology and digital solutions. Her work has advanced b...2022-08-221h 05
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 27 - BPM & EA MaturityGrowing your practice is on every leader's mind. The way to do this is to have an eye on the definition and the development of the maturity of your organization.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
What is maturity and which three areas you should focus on (content, governance, adoption)
Assessment of capabilities (5 big buckets)
What to rate the maturity against, e.g., CMMI
An example of how an assessment can be built and used on a regular basis
How to grow the maturity over time
Tips on how to get the...2022-08-081h 03
State of Process Automation67 - Solution/Process Lifecycle: Die 5 Schritte, um effiziente Prozesse zu designen (Und welche Tools dir dabei helfen)| Roland WoldtIn dieser Episode spreche ich mit Roland Woldt, VP Global Consulting, IGrafx.
Wir sprechen über folgende Themen:
Was versteht man unter Process/Solution Lifecycle?
Die 5 Schritte, um effizientere Prozesse zu designen
Welche Rolle spielt Process Mining im Process/Solution Lifecycle?
Podcast-Moderator: Christoph Pacher
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pacherchristoph/
Interviewgast: Roland Woldt, VP Global Consulting, IGrafx
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolandwoldt/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2d2AcyK9lr2jcx5HJJsNl9?si=0427cebe7df54396
Artikel Process/Solution Lifecycle: https://www.whatsyourbaseline.co...2022-07-3039 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 26 - Communicating the value of architecture: Laurie KellyOne of the biggest problems of architecture groups was (is?) that they are doing good work, but that will not be recognized by others. One of the causes for that is that their repository and artifacts have almost no visibility outside of their group. To mitigate this situation, we are speaking with Laurie Kelly about how to communicate the value of architecture in today's episode of the What's Your Baseline Podcast.
Laurie is the Global Director for Demand Generation at Ardoq, an Enterprise Architecture tool vendor. But she comes with a 25 year background in Marketing, where she...2022-07-251h 04What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedSeason 3 TrailerWe're back!
Welcome to Season 3 of the What’s Your Baseline podcast. A big thank you for more than 7500 downloads… so far!
That’s awesome, and I am so excited for this new season of incredible content!
My name is Roland Woldt.
And I am J-M Erlendson. This season we’re continuing our deep dive into three areas relevant to architecture and process management professionals (and casual fans!). The first area is “content” - we will explore various topics, including Open Source, QA Best Practices, and Security Architecture.
The second area...2022-07-1801 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 25 - (Another) Ten Things I've LearnedWe made it - 25 long form episodes of the podcast (and 7 "Shorts" as well).
By popular demand - and because our statistics shows it - we are having "(Another) Ten Things I've Learned" episode. This time we are talking about three major areas:
How to measure your architecture and improvement programs
1. Architecture / BPM is not about the topics at hand (apps, processes, etc.) it is about people and how people interact with each other
2. When measuring architecture, make things SMART
3. Process Mining is the “next hot thing”, but it is not all and...2022-06-271h 08
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 7 - Process empathyPeople.
For better or worse a lot of the topics in EA and BPM center around people. These are the reasons why we do things (customers who pay for our goods and services), who does the work (employees and partners), or why processes and architectures even exist in the first place.
In this What's Your Baseline Shorts, we are talking about process empathy:
What does it take to facilitate the development of a human-centric process model?
What kinds of things should you think about, and when in the process?
What does it mean to h...2022-06-2014 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 24 - Task Mining & RPA: Kevin Scully and Ziv IlanTask Mining and RPA are things that are often overlooked when looking at Process Mining. This can leave a big hole in the discovered process and therefore create an incomplete analysis result.
In today's podcast we are speaking with Kevin Scully and Ziv Ilan from Nintex Kryon about Task Mining, what results you can expect from it, and how those can be used to automate processes using Robotics Task Automation.
Kevin has 35+ years' experience leading and supporting GTM strategy for SMB enterprises. He's a hands-on, team player who excels at defining value propositions, building customer...2022-06-1349 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 6 - What makes a good dashboard?Everyone wants to consume and understand large amounts of data. But how do you plan, design, and implement a good dashboard?
In this What's Your Baseline Shorts, J-M and Roland walk you through the process and the considerations at each step, so that the next time you create a dashboard (for example as part of your Process Mining analysis) it will be stakeholder-oriented with a clear visual hierarchy that will make your users understand your message easily and quickly.
In this episode we are talking about:
Identify your stakeholders and information needs
Define KPI a...2022-06-0617 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 23 - How to create a business caseWelcome to another episode of our podcast. Today's topic is about creating a formal business case as part of the change process.
Creating a business case document can be a challenge for someone who has not done that before, and one might think that this is a single-person activity. Nothing could be further from the truth - in our experience, a good business case document is the result of collaboration between multiple people in your organization (and vendors) that happens in multiple iterations until every stakeholder gives the "green light".
In detail we are talking a...2022-05-301h 03
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 5 - How to get into Process MiningProcess Mining is THE hot technology in our industry these days. But how do you get involved in it, and which skills do you need to bring to the table?
In this Shorts we are talking about:
What is Process Mining?
How is a Process Mining project different from a "regular BPM project"?
What skills and knowledge do you need?
Where to go next?
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.2022-05-2316 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 22 - Selecting the right team: Ansgar BittermannSelecting the right team members is not an easy situation - especially when you are a small or medium-sized organization that cannot hire as freely as they might want. In today's episode we are talking about how to plan for staffing and select the right people for your architecture/transformation teams with our guest, Ansgar Bittermann.
Our topic this week touches on subjects that may be sensitive to our listeners, particularly around individual evaluation and potential. The research, research applications, and business applications of that research may be controversial, but we have decided to publish and share...2022-05-161h 04
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 4 - What makes a good POC/POV?One part of the buying process is a POC/POV (Proof of Concept/Proof of Value). If done right, those require a significant effort from both parties - buyers and sellers - so you want to make the best out of this situation and not waste everybody's time.
In this Shorts we are talking about:
What is a POC/POV and where does it fit into the buying cycle?
Have a clear objective for the POC
What is the typical structure of a POC?
Communicate clearly
Make it easy for the client to choose you
...2022-05-0917 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 21 - Consulting in Process Mining: Jakub DvořákThe topic "Process" seems to have a renaissance these days. A lot of younger folks are deciding to work in this industry, and a not so small part of this might be caused by the exciting new technology of Process Mining, which seems to be natural for people who grew up with technology in all areas of their life.
In today's podcast we are speaking with Jakub Dvořák, who fits right into this profile, and is working at a Process Mining consulting firm in Europe that is currently expanding into the United States.
Jakub is...2022-05-0257 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 3 - Why Simulation should NOT be in your Process Mining toolThe topic of this What's Your Baseline Shorts podcast is Process Simulation and why you should not have this in your Process Mining tool, but rather as part of your design platform.
We speak about these topics:
Why simulation?
What do you need for simulation
What are the outcomes of a simulation
What are the different types of simulation?
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.2022-04-2515 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 20 - Process Mining: James DeningSometimes things in business kill the best podcast publishing schedule.
Today's guest, James Dening, the CEO of Minit, has sold the firm to Microsoft on March 31. Nevertheless this interview with him is very insightful regarding his way to becoming the CEO, process mining as a discipline, as well as the process mining market compared to the last "hot thing" Robotics Process Automation.
James is a former geek, now a commercial leader, with a passion for combining how you use data effectively and how you nurture and develop people superbly to create amazing kick-ass organizations. He...2022-04-181h 12
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 2 - Capabilities in an architectureThe topic of this second "Shorts" podcast episode is "Capabilities". We spoke about this in Episode 2 "Why EA and BPM?", but received some feedback that we should dig deeper into this topic. So here it is :-)
The high-level topics of this episode are:
What is the difference between a capability and a process?
How do capabilities fit into architecture?
A real-life example of how capabilities can be used in a program for planning purposes
Business vs. IT capabilities
Where should capabilities be used, and how?
Please reach out to us by either sending an...2022-04-1114 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 19 - Interacting with analysts: Amardeep ModiAnalysts are the mystical wizards of the tech industry. Their reports and analysis results shape markets and sometimes also the fates of organizations that play in that market. Therefore, many organizations want to control access to analysts and a lot of questions are unanswered, leaving behind confused people.
But we are here to change this, by having Amardeep Modi, an experienced analyst on the show who is giving us a "look behind the scenes" of the analyst business.
Amar is a Vice President at Everest Group. He's a seasoned advisor and leader with many years...2022-04-0457 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWYB Shorts 1 - EPC vs. BPMNThis is the first episode of the What's Your Baseline Shorts series. We are talking about the topic of process notations, especially if you should choose the BPMN or the EPC notation.
High-level topics include:
What are EPC and BPMN?
A bit of history
Specialties of each notation, and difficulties that might arise
Data exchange with BPMN
External standards
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.
The full show notes, including graphics, further links, credits, and transcript, a...2022-03-2814 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWhat's Your Baseline Shorts - TeaserWelcome to What’s Your Baseline “Shorts”!
In this series, we’re distilling down our usual long-form content from the hour-long What’s Your Baseline podcast into a more concentrated and visual form (that’s right... you get to see our faces! At least on Spotify and on YouTube).
But most importantly, these "Shorts" are brief focused discussions about a key topic in architecture, process, business, change and much more - just enough for you to “get the gist of it”.
And don’t worry - we’ll still have our regularly-scheduled biweekly full episodes of the...2022-03-2301 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 18 - Working with recruiters: Jason JovanisAnother episode of the podcast, and we are having a very interesting and entertaining conversation with Jason Jovanis about working with recruiters - either as a candidate, or as an organization who is looking for new talent.
Jason came to his job after 20+ years as a sales leader, who in 2018 had the crazy idea to quit the VP of Sales job and start a recruiting business.
He knows what it's like to need to hire people (lots of people). He's wasted his own time and frustrated others by interviewing people he shouldn’t have, and he kn...2022-03-211h 09
Mining Your BusinessProcess mining, the hipster child of the process industry with Roland Woldt, author of What's your Baseline PodcastIs process mining overrated? Roland Woldt, Business transformation architect at Software AG, who coined the term "Process mining, the hipster child of the process industry" might have something to say about that. Listen to Mining your Business Podcast episode 31 to hear from a life long business process consultant and host of What's your baseline podcast to find out why process mining shouldn't exist solely on its own but rather as a part of a complex process lifecycle.Learn more at the Processand website!Follow us on our LinkedIn page here: LinkedInLearn more about...2022-03-1655 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 17 - Organizational Change ManagementWelcome to another episode of our podcast. Today's topic is organizational change management, which is the counterpart to the previous episode of "Management of Change" where we spoke with Caspar Jans. This episode covers the "people side" of changes that are planned in your architecture and implementation projects, and we are covering the why, org design, communication, and enablement topics.
In detail we are talking about:
Org Change Mgmt vs. Management of Change. OCM is not the "feel good stuff" but a management practice
Reasons for resistance: fear of loosing authority, security, capability
Valley of Tears...2022-03-071h 11
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 16 - Management of Change: Caspar JansManaging change is hard - either managing organizational change or managing changes in the technology or architecture. In this episode of the podcast we are talking with Caspar Jans from Software AG about the latter and how to implement and operate a program to manage change.
Caspar is a high-energy, fast learning and broad-skilled professional (BPM, Business Transformation, Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement and IT) with an above average interest in the human connection and functional excellence. He excels in connecting human performance with process thinking and improvement.
His public speaking, facilitation and networking skills provide...2022-02-2156 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 15 - Strategic Process Consulting: Zach BennettSetting up a strategic process consulting practice or firm in our industry is not easy. On the one hand side you have the large system integrators/Big 4 companies, and on the other side you have the tool vendors helping setting up internal practices and capabilities. Finding your niche in that setup and build a sustainable business is a challenge.
Showing an example of a successful enterprise, we are talking with Zach Bennett, who runs his own firm Visual Enterprise Architecture for over 25 years, in this episode of the podcast.
Zach is a senior executive leader...2022-02-0755 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 14 - EA Strategy and Capabilities: Carlisle GunnDeveloping an EA strategy is not done very often, but has many benefits. In this episode we are talking with Carlisle Gunn, an experienced Enterprise Architect, who we've worked with on past projects.
Carlisle has worked in the Enterprise Architecture space for over 8 years with a focus on business and application architecture. He led teams through process discovery into documentation and improvement. Working with team members from a wide array of roles, his background demonstrates experience working with almost every type of functional member within an organization.
Carlisle received a Masters of Professional Studies in...2022-01-2450 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 13 - Solution LifecycleWelcome to the first episode of our season 2! Today we are talking about the Solution Lifecycle in architecture - what it is and why it is important to you.
Architecture development and analysis does not happen in a vacuum, but are embedded in a lifecycle. New tools like Process Mining and Task Mining make it sound as if you don’t need other tools and techniques anymore, but quite the opposite is the case - traditional analysis techniques are still needed to support all phases of the solution lifecycle. We are talking about:
What is a "so...2022-01-101h 01
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedWhat's Your Baseline? - Season 2 TrailerThank you so much for supporting and growing this podcast over our first 6 months. In Season 1, we covered foundational topics like how to implement an architecture tool and dipped our toes into interviews with thought leaders in the architecture and process management field.
And now, welcome to season 2 of the What's Your Baseline podcast, where we take it to the next level!
My name is Roland Woldt.
And I’m J-M Erlendson. This season, we’re going to cover three areas relevant to architects and driven by best practices. Our first topic expands on t...2022-01-0501 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 12 - Ten Things I've LearnedHere it is - the end (of season 1 ... no worries, we're back in January 2022). In this episode we are mixing up the format a bit and are talking about the 10 things that we learned in 25 years of architecture and process management.
Approach / strategy segment
Let's talk about the bigger picture, the why and larger setup. What are the thoughts that get organizations started?
Why: You’ll end up paying for it somehow. End of the line in people or risk.
Don't do a "big effort upfront"
Develop and create in releases / have a release pla...2021-12-1351 min
AI POCKET GUIDEProcess Mining - the hipster child of the process industry - with Roland Woldt & J-M ErlendsonToday we talk with Roland Woldt, Washington DC, and J-M Erlendson, Toronto. Both are working at Software AG as Business Process and Transformation Architect and are also running their own website (and podcast) whatsyourbaseline.com, where they demystify and explain enterprise architechture. Our topic today is process mining. As Roland puts it: like footprints in the snow executing processes leave process traces in application systems. And with process mining we can analyse these process ...2021-12-0743 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 11 - Governance DesignAhh, "governance" - the topic that is boring to death and had complete EA groups being fired.
Love it or not, setting up the "rules of engagement" is still an important piece in an organization. And you can do it while having some fun when you remember the points that we are talking about in this episode:
Role of governance in architecture activities and how it was seen in the past
Archetypes of architects - governance as low/low activity (and hence the popularity of EA groups to focus on this topic)
Who should be involved...2021-12-061h 03
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 10 - Get the most out of conferences, trade shows, and webinars: Jose PiresHave you ever wondered why you should go to conferences or be a speaker (and how to become one)? Our podcast guest today is José Pires, a veteran of 20+ years in the conference business and a leader in helping organizations to improve their execution and innovation excellence.
José serves as Excellence & Innovation (E&I) executive leader and advisor for cross-industry organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 50, where he oversees the global identification, prioritization and execution of high value business improvements and innovations for the companies, business partners, and customers in multiple markets.
He is an ad...2021-11-221h 14
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 9 - Task MiningThis episode is a "semi follow-up" to the last episode, where we talked about Process Mining - today's topic is Task Mining (aka Robotics Process Discovery).
Task Mining will bring clarity into what your users do on a procedure level, and can give insights into what might cause a "spike" in your analysis, or fill the holes that you might have in a discovered / mined process (for example when there are manual steps or steps in a system that does not create a log file).
In this episode we spoke about the following topics:
...2021-11-0859 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 8 - Process Mining: Julian KrumeichAnother Monday, another interview :-)
Our guest today is Dr. Julian Krumeich, Software AG's product manager for their process mining tool.
In his current role as Director Product Management ARIS at Software AG, Julian helps customers achieve operational excellence by shaping the future of our ARIS Process Mining solution - the ideal tool for integrated process mining with business process management. The close collaboration with key customers, global market analysts and his spirit of innovation enable him to define and implement the right product strategy to ensure customer success and contribute to the profitability of o...2021-10-2556 min
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 7 - Import of Existing ContentWelcome to a new episode of your favorite podcast. The topic of today is to capture and import the vast amounts of existing content in your organization, and how to integrate this into your repository.
The import is one of the four major steps of an architecture tool implementation that we discussed in Episode 3.
Why bringing in existing content?
Concerns: age of content, correctness, type of storage (project vs. Enterprise Baseline), integration into dev method/SDLC, document naming/versioning
Size of import: number of models and complexity drive effort
Content format: how to map the information...2021-10-111h 07What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 6 - Agile and Architecture: Mike IdengrenIn this episode of the What's Your Baseline podcast we are changing up the format a bit - this is the first of many interviews that we will have in the future.
Our guest today is Mike Idengren, who has 20+ years of experience combining EA, BPM, and agile solution development methodologies to unleash cross-functional teams' potential to deliver on digital business transformation expectations. He is a TOGAF-certified SAFe SPC and instructor, applying "agile at scale" -- going beyond theoretical teaching, and delivering results by implementing "just enough" tools, organizational structures, and processes.
We are talking...2021-09-281h 06
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 5 - Notations, Notations, NotationsWelcome to episode 5 of the What’s Your Baseline podcast. Today we are talking about:
Definitions: Frameworks (structures), Methods (processes), Notations (languages), Reference Content (content)
How to implement these? This is part of the Technical Governance implementation phase; write it down in your EA Strategy document
Document your standards. When and how to change the standards (too often diminishes trust; org Change Mgmt / socialization is key)
Have your method and data define/support your standards so they are "fit for purpose"
Action-focused vs. function-focused notations
How to run process design workshops in multiple sessions
Geek-out over various notation ex...2021-09-131h 08
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 4 - How to Select an Architecture ToolWelcome to episode 4 of the What’s Your Baseline podcast. We are talking about:
Types of architecture tools: drawing tools, implementation front ends, database-driven architecture tools
How users see things: data-driven visualization vs. visualization-driven data (tables vs diagrams)
Focus of architecture tools > niche vendors - your stakeholder needs drive the focus
What to look for when selecting tools:
How do you get started (personal equipment, existing information, etc.)
Selecting the tool - what to look for: modeling, dashboards, wiki, data ingestion + insights
Functionalities of architecture tools
Deployment and cost
People
Non-functional criteria (ve...2021-08-301h 00
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management DemystifiedEp. 3 - Implementing Your Architecture ToolWelcome to episode 3 of the What’s Your Baseline podcast.
The topic of this episode is how to implement your architecture tool(s). We are talking about:
What do people look for when buying an architecture tool?
What is the end perspective on the architecture tool implementation?
The importance of personas and the value proposition for them - outside-in perspective
Four big steps of implementing an architecture tool - inside-out perspective
Strategy: strategy definition, releases, measure success
Technology: tool selection, tech setup, technical governance (data model, meta model, configuration, conventions), other systems and integration
Governance: processes, or...2021-08-2055 min