2007 Events - June
To celebrate the BCS's 50th anniversary in 2007, the BCS Nottingham & Derby Branch has arranged
a programme of events to run throughout the year. This page contains details of the events running in
June; for details of the rest of the programme, please use the links below.
"Wit nor Wisdom – A Pragmatic Guide to Business Process Modelling"
presented by Jon Holt Simon Perry
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Many thanks to everyone who attended this event, and especially to Jon's colleague Simon
Perry for stepping in at very short notice to ensure that we had someone to present for us.
He has also very kindly made a copy of his slides available. To download a copy
click here
(658kB PDF document).
A PDF viewer is available from Adobe.
If you encounter any problems accessing the file, please e-mail Rob Gilliam.
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Details
Process modelling is one of those subjects that is often mis-understood: consider the analogy of a magician performing
a card trick – the process is easy to follow but impossible to replicate from the audience's point of view. To
replicate such a magic trick it is necessary to understand several different views of the trick, rather than simply
looking at it from the audience's point of view.
A full understanding will require some degree of domain knowledge concerning magic and sleight-of-hand, and insight
into the hidden complexities behind the trick and a knowledge of the mis-communication devices employed by magicians.
The challenge, therefore, is in creating an accurate and concise model of a process – a task that is plagued with
complexity and difficulty in understanding the often-buried processes and communication trails that exist.
This lecture introduces a framework of views that are considered essential in order to understand any process fully.
The approach discussed here has been used in industry and has been adopted by the BSI (British Standards Institution)
for process modelling.
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About the Presenters
Simon Perry is a director of Brass Bullet Ltd, the software and systems engineering consultancy.
He is the co-author, with Jon Holt, of "Systems Modelling with SysML", to be published
by the IET in 2007.
Jon Holt is the author of the BCS book A Pragmatic Guide to Business Process Modelling and is
the founder-director of Brass Bullet Ltd, a software and systems engineering consultancy company
based in Swansea, South Wales. He has been working in the field of process modelling, in particular using the
Unified Modelling Language (UML), since the mid-1990's and has worked with many organizations including professional
bodies such as the IET, BSI and BCS; major industry in the fields of defence, aerospace, rail, automotive and
communications; academic institutions such as UCL and the University of Wales and a number of government organizations
and other non-engineering related groups.
Jon is a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the BCS. His other interests include
card magic and Tae Kwon Do.
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