Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM: Find out how to improve business processes with jBPM, and discover how you can begin making a transformative impact as a business analyst in your organization

Have been playing with workflow for the past six months but haven't been able to move past the simple three node examples in the jBPM download. Got this book on a Friday and finished it by Sunday, this alone is a testament to how easy it is to read and understand. By Monday evening I had the book's complex workflow example running and was, for the first time, starting to grasp workflow principles in general, and the jBPM framework in particular. By the end of week I was taking this example apart, tweaking it, and making it better. Thanks Matt, I'm finally out of the starting gate.This book is targeted at project managers and does a great job of laying out requirements gathering and project team assembly. As a software developer, project management is a little out of my area of experience, however I learned a lot about what I could do to create fast prototypes for proof of concept demos.If you want to learn work flow the fast way, this book is great. And if you're a developer wanting to get your boss interested in workflow, the first chapter is a great overview for non-technical types.I hope I see here the seeds of a companion volume or a "How to" cookbook targeted for developers. Matt Cumberlidge really knows how to write and he also creates great, real world, examples, which developers can sink their teeth into.

This book is described as A Practical Guide for Business Analysts and is intended for Business Analysts who are not familiar with, or who are new to the JBoss jBPM system.The book takes an iterative approach to Business Process Management (BPM) and starts by describing why we might need BPM and what its benefits to an organization might be. The first chapter of the book continues to describe some scenarios where BPM is expected to be beneficial to a company (for example "Processes are carried out in disparate teams" and where BPM would not be used (for example where it would impose a disproportionate burden on a small business). Chapter 1 ends by introducing a suggested six-phase project lifecycle, which is described within the remaining chapters in the book.The first stage of implementing BPM describes how to set up a BPM project and includes details on Project Initiation Documents, scoping the process, process analysis and scoping out the process workflow. Sample activity diagrams and project documentation (e.g. RACI matrices) are provided as examples.After describing the business process, the book details how to model the process using JBoss jBPM including details of how to install the jBPM engine, the JBoss application Server and the jBPM designer. The jBPM designer is an Eclipse plugin, so some readers of the book may already be familiar with this application. It should be stated however that the target audience for this book is not software developers, but Business Analysts (although there are sections within the book on how to customise jBPM processes using Java code). This section on implementing a process using JBoss jBPM is one of the larger chapters in the book and covers details of jPDL (Process Definition Language). As with the rest of the book, this is described in a clear and easy to understand tutorial approach that should provide the readers with sufficient information to build their own processes after completing the book.In order to deploy and test the business process on JBoss jBPM, a user interface is required which is the subject of the next chapter in the book. This chapter described how web based user interfaces can be automatically generated from within the process editor and then customised by a business analyst. The web based user interfaces are defined using Java Server Faces (JSF) with the Facelets view technology. The book does not go into great depth about either of these technologies, rather it assumes the Business Analyst will be making minor modifications to these pages.The sample process within the book is developed and deployed onto a standalone JBoss workstation. Details are provided however on how to deploy the project onto a production server using a production ready database.Sometimes within a business process it is necessary to invoke custom actions that can be developed using Java code. A brief description is provided showing how to develop a custom action to extract data from a process and insert it into a separate database. This is provided as an overview of how custom actions can be developed, however the focus of the book is on developing and deploying business processes in an iterative manner rather than on in depth analysis of the Java code required to develop custom actions.Finally the book concludes with details of how process monitoring can be achieved using the SeeWhy business intelligence platform.This book follows a tutorial style approach describing an iterative procedure for developing BPM applications deployed to the JBoss jBPM engine. The book takes the reader through the whole project lifecycle, from identifying target processes, building prototypes and finally getting project sign-off. The style of the book is easy to read whilst still remaining informative. This book is recommended for Business Analysts using or looking to use the JBoss jBPM suite of tools

The book helps you to visualize any project. Im currently utilizing this book even with the latest version of the software. The concepts can be re-applied nicely.

This book is a easy-to-read, nice, brief introduction to BPM and BPMS using jBPM tool.

'Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM' by Matt Cumberlidge is a book targeted at business analysts and product managers who are looking to streamline the process of managing software development. This book spans over 200 pages and content is laid out over 7 chapters. From laying out how jBPM is to be used to setting up your first process management workflow to learning how to get the most out of this great tool, this book is perfect for all relevant industry people who are looking to improve efficiency and results.I usually look for brevity in books but I felt that another 50 pages or so probably would have made for a better end result. This book does exactly what it says it is going to do and does it well, but I felt that it could have had a little more content and that is why I didn't give this a 5th star.Good book for going from prototype to end result for all people in the field and a book I recommend picking up.**** RECOMMENDED