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BPM Measurement: Principles and Practice How To Model Business Processes and Web Services for SOA-based and EA-compliant Implementation
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Business Process and Web Services Modeling Workshop:
How To Model Business Processes and Web Services for
SOA-based and EA-compliant Implementation

Lloyd Dugan

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies have caught up with the already mature solutions for Business Process Management (BPM) and disciplines for Enterprise Architecture (EA). This nexus of technologies, solutions, and disciplines is now challenging organizations on multiple fronts over how to analyze, design, develop, and deploy web services that enable reengineered business processes in an architecturally compliant and optimal configuration.

This full-day workshop will prepare attendees to face these challenges. It will do this by providing a comprehensive understanding of tool-agnostic best practices for modeling business processes and web services, and how to design these for implementation in a SOA-based arrangement that fits within an organization’s EA.

Session Topics Include:

Business Processes and Web Services Modeling Essentials and Terminology
• Basic functional decomposition principles: state change, division of actors/roles, functional/data purity, alignment with business requirements/measures
• Basic process flow principles and workflow patterns: sequence, parallel, choice, synchronization, merge, iteration
• Basic legacy system analysis: root/node/leaf analysis, interfaces, tiers/platforms, functional threads
• Basic message exchange patterns: fire-and-forget, request/reply, broadcast, publish/subscribe
• Key web service modeling concepts: reconciling top-down vs. bottom-up approaches, coupling, cohesion, utility
• Key XML schema document (XSD) data modeling concepts: hierarchy, cardinality, optionality, nillability
• Key web service identification principles: repeatability/reusability, extensibility, granularity, classification by type/technology, definition, documentation

Implementing SOA-based and EA-compliant Business Processes and Web Services
• SOA technologies: BPM system (BPMS), business rules engine (BRE), business process execution language (BPEL), enterprise service bus (ESB), other
• BPMS options: packaged functionality vs. web services architecture, application server platforms, pure play vs. integrated suite
• EA overview: Federal EA Framework (FEAF) Reference Models, segment architectures, DoI’s Methodology for Business Transformation
• Architectural compliance: relationship of SOA to EA, EA and SOA governance and change management, impact on system development lifecycle (SDLC)

In addition to material presented in lecture format, there will be in-class work assignments as well as ongoing opportunities for questions and answers and for sharing different experiences. Scheduled breaks and a lunch period will help to break-up the day and allow time to meet with conference exhibitors showcasing BPM and EA solutions.

About the Instructor:

Lloyd Dugan is Chief Technology Officer and the Senior Project Director for Information Engineering Services (IES). He has over 20 years of experience in providing IT management consulting and systems integration services to a variety of public and private sector clients, where he has assisted them in applying and integrating various methodologies and information technologies to solve critical business problems. He specializes in being a System Architect, and has led several mixed project teams in the design of solutions that integrate complex technologies. He led the effort to design the first SOA-based application for the Office of Single Family Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, including developing an SOA modeling methodology around UML, and was asked to speak at the Oracle SOA User Group (DC Metro Region). Mr. Dugan is a past speaker at AIIM and ARMA (twice), and at several Delphi Group conferences, on workflow, BPM, and document management. He has most recently supported the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) in its implementation of SharePoint and Meridio as its EDMS and ERMS, respectively. He serves as the CTO/CIO for IES, managing its IT infrastructure. Prior to joining IES, he worked at Information Management Consultants, American Management Systems (now a part of CGI Federal), Anteon (now a part of General Dynamics), and Deloitte & Touche. He has an MBA from the Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and received his undergraduate BA degree in Economics and Government from Georgetown University.