Process.Gov

Dr. Aaron Drew is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland University College as well as a Systems Engineer at the Business Transformation Agency, the to guide the transformation of business operations throughout the Department of Defense and to deliver Enterprise-level capabilities that align to warfighter needs. This session will present current thinking at the BTA for using Business Process Management tools and methods to manage exposed defense enterprise business system services in support of the decomposed levels of an end to end processes.

Presented by one of the foremost authorities on business process modeling notations, methods and standards, this session presents the findings from hundreds of hours of hands-on research and analysis of the current BPMN 2.0 specification, as well as BPMN conformance and serialization. Examined will be the changes introduced with BPMN 2.0 and the consequences these present to both developers and practitioners. Discussed will be changes to existing functions from BPMN 1.2 to 2.0 including both new capabilities introduced and potential challenges with migration, as well as portability and conformance, plus exploration of XPDL 2.2 and the path forward.

This session presents an approach for taking business processes and, through a process called Service-Oriented Analysis, develop service contracts for implementing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Successful SOA implementations require defining and describing the