12/11/07 :: [BPM] IBM Research is working on Resource Lifecycles [permalink]
Marlon Dumas emailed me the link to the home page of Ksenia Ryndina, Ph.D. Candidate, who is working with Prof. Gall at IBM Research Lab in Zurich. This is where the Atomic Force Microscope was invented in the 80s. This is a very small facility compared to Yorktown Heights, but the quality of its research is inversely proportional.
I exchanged some email with Ksenia who confirmed that:
The results that we have published so far and the prototype we've built as an extension to WBM (WebSphere Business Modeler) address the exact problem you pointed out: "...almost no-one would be capable of designing (as in graphically designing using BPMN) a business process that would comply with the lifecycles of all the resources involved. Assuming you created such a model, let's say that you now create a process variant. How would you be guaranteed that the resource lifecycle was not impacted?"
I believe that IBM has build an architecture that is 100% compatible with the blueprint that I proposed, however, Ksenia's research confirms that they are still a tiny bit away from making it fully operational.
Ksenia, is the first person I talked to in 10 years that thought about a similar BPMS architecture.