Today we finished the Activiti release candidate (which will be released on Monday), so the first stable Activiti Version is pretty close. Enough reason for you to get on that topic today Hence we offer the first open Activiti Training worldwide and it takes place on November 11th and 12th in Munich (Germany).

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The W-Jax in Munich (16-18.11.) is one of the most important Java conferences in Germany, and always a very good opportunity to learn about both innovative trends and profound best practices. This year we will not only attend the conference as speakers, but also booked a booth for the accompanying exhibition. There we will answer all questions about Activiti, the new open source BPM platform.

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Yesterday we gave a webinar, presenting our new Training “BPMN for IT requirements“. We got a lot of positive feedback, because the webinar was not just a marketing session, but also provided some useful information for all attendees.

We recorded a screencast of the session, but unfortunately in German . If you are English speaking and interested in such a training, just drop as a message, and maybe we will set up an English webinar as well. If you don’t mind German, you can watch the screencast here: http://connectpro57681650.emea.acrobat.com/p92235060/

While Bernd has been enjoying himself in Chile, I attended BPMN 2010 in Potsdam, Germany. I think I would have liked Chile better (after reading Bernds Blog Post), but the conference was still very interesting. My own talk was (suprise!) about the harmonization of organizational and technical process models for Business-IT-Alignment. I tried a screencast with audio track for the time for this talk, and it worked quite well. Unfortunately I gave the talk in German, but if you don’t mind, it’s here

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Recently I got invited to a BPM conference in Chile to give a talk about BPMN 2.0 by Professor Hitpass from the technical university of Santa Maria in Santiago de Chile. Even if most of the talks were in Spanish (and my Spanish is let’s say pretty basic) I got some interesting information about the Chilean and Latin-American BPM market, some of them I want to share with you here. The two days conference was about BPM overall on the first day and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) on the second day, if you know Spanish you get some information about it on the Chilean BPM Center. I not only met people from Chile but from all over South America there…

Ah, and since this was such a long flight, I had to do some holidays there as well

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Yesterday camunda has given three talks at the 3rd SOA-Symposium in Berlin. Actually it was my first talk in English, so I was rather nervous. And I am quite sure that I made a lot of language mistakes, but the audience got the point. Especially Roberts talk about Agile BPM got quite a lot of response. Seems to be an interesting topic

Here are the slides:

Robert Gimbel	Agile BPM – Impossible?
Nils Preusker	Open Source Process Execution – Status quo
Jakob Freund	BPMN – An experience report

Our new training, “BPMN for IT requirements”, is all about better ways of engineering, documenting and managing IT requirements using BPMN. No matter if you plan to use a process engine, or if your project is about plain software development, customizing SAP-modules or the procurement of standard software. The final goal is just to improve your requirements specifications with BPMN.

But how should this concretely work? What are the pitfalls? Who is going to play what role? These are the questions we had to face a lot of times, in the last two years. This training is the “best of” our answers.

If you find that interesting, you should participate in our free webinar on October 21st, 11-11.45 am CEST (UTC+2). Thing is however, that this webinar will be in German . But if you don’t mind, or if you are interested in a webinar in English, just contact Maria.Courmont@camunda.com.

If there are enough people who want to get an English session, we will surely set it up for you