Free Papers to download

These papers are extracted from the Annual Workflow Handbook series published in collaboration with WfMC. The Workflow Management Coalition provides an important forum for the adoption of standards throughout the industry. Standards provide an infrastructure for inter-organizational business process automation and management. In our book series, industry experts and thought leaders present significant new ideas and concepts to help you plan a successful future for your organization. From time to time, we will feature white papers contributed to the Workflow Handbook series for you to download..

• 2007 BPM and Workflow Handbook
  Download Three sample chapters
  √ Foreword - by Jon Pyke, Chair WfMC
  √ Introduction: Workflow and BPM in 2007: Business Process Standards See a New Global Imperative - by Nathaniel Palmer, Executive Director,Workflow Management Coalition
  √ BPM and Service-Oriented Architecture Teamed Together: a Pathway to Success for an Agile Government - by Linus Chow and Charles Medley, BEA Systems; Clay Richardson, PPC.
• 2006 Workflow Handbook including Business Process Management
  Foreword
  Introduction
  XPDL 2.0: Integrating Process Interchange and BPMN
  Robert M. Shapiro, Global 360, USA
  The Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) was developed by individuals working together in the Business Process Management Initiative to take the techniques employed in flowcharting tools, unify and extend the graphics to express the semantics required in workflow and EAI processes. BPMN 1.0 was released in May 2004. In addition to the graphical notation, BPMN incorporated a number of specific mechanisms for process modeling that had not yet been included in XPDL; among these in particular events and message passing between processes. XPDL 2.0 incorporates these mechanisms as well as the graphics and offers an extended meta-model that unifies XPDL and BPMN.
• Workflow Handbook 2005
  Introduction
  BPM—Too Much BP, Not Enough of the M 
  Derek Miers, Enix Consulting, United Kingdom
  The problem with many BPM deployments is that they often overlook the reason why this technology is needed in the first place—to support the achievement of business objectives. The re-emergence of business processes as a core discipline in modern business management is fairly clear. But in order to really derive the maximum benefit from BPM initiatives, firms need to manage the people interface more carefully.
• Workflow Handbook 2004
  Introduction
  The Workflow Reference Model: 10 Years On (570kb PDF)
  David Hollingsworth, Fujitsu Services, United Kingdom; Chair, Technical Committee, WfMC.
  Last year saw the 10th anniversary of the Workflow Reference Model. This short paper reassesses the relevance of the Model in the current context of Business Process Management. It discusses the principles behind the Model, its strengths and weakness and examines how it remains relevant to the industry today. It concludes by introducing a number of considerations required to establish a “BPM Reference Model” and discusses how the various overlapping standards in this space may be categorized.
• Workflow Handbook 2003
  Introduction
  Workflow and Process Management (Download a free 25-page chapter)
  Carol Prior, Maestro BPE Pty Limited, Australia
• Workflow Handbook 2002
  An Introduction to Workflow Download a free chapter! (20 pages PDF)
  by Charles Plesums, Computer Sciences Corporation, Financial Services Group
• Workflow Handbook 2001
  Workflow: An Introduction by Rob Allen, Fellow (24 pages PDF)