A Practitioner’s Perspective: Capabilities, Agile and Process Blindness
In his Column this month, Alec Sharp adds his voice to the growing number of BPM practitioners weighing in on the capabilities issue—is it just business process by any other name? Alec`s recent experience suggests that the emergence of such terms as “business capabilities,” “capability maps,” and “capability models,” have left many architects more confused than enlightened. All of you who have been following the increasingly lively capability discussion on our LinkedIn site will want to read what Alec has to say on the subject.
Alec Sharp
Alec Sharp has managed his consulting and education business, Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd., for close to 30 years. Serving clients from Ireland to India, and Washington to Wellington, Alec's expertise includes facilitation, strategy development, data management, and of course, business analysis and business process improvement. His popular workshops and conference presentations on these topics, conducted globally, consistently receive "excellent" ratings. Alec is the author of the recently-released second edition of "Workflow Modeling" (Artech House, 2008) which is widely used as a university text and is a best-seller in the field.
Contact Alec - asharp@clariteq.com.
Latest posts by Alec Sharp (see all)
- Practitioner’s Perspective: What’s Wrong With This Process? – A Closer Look at Assessing Business Processes - November 3, 2014
- Using Scope Models for Process Analysis—Fast Results for a Hurry-up World - May 5, 2014
- A Practitioner’s Perspective: Now’s Your Chance – What to Cover in an Executive Briefing on Business Processes - January 5, 2014
- A Practitioner’s Perspective: Peace Accord Reached! Process vs. Capability Debate Ends with a Whimper - October 1, 2013
- Practitioner’s Perspective: What’s in, what’s out?—Thoughts on Scoping Models - April 2, 2013
