Welcome to another episode of our podcast. In the final episode of the final season for this year, we are talking about another ten things we’ve learned over the years:
- How to do things
- Transparency is more important than ever
- Strategic alignment is key to your success
- Sometimes you have to say “no” to requirements
- Make clear from the outset how a project’s success is measured
- Tools
- BPM/EA tools are still too nerdy
- Tools need to be simpler – how to get to information in three clicks or fewer
- How to provide self-help resources
- (Bonus) Do not google “how to create subway maps”
- The discipline/industry
- There will be a renaissance of forward-looking data-driven decision making (e.g., Simulation)
- Process Mining will cease to exist as its own market in 3-5 years
- Knowledge Management needs to be more in focus
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Ep. 37 – (I can't believe it is another) Ten things I've learned – What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified
Additional information
- In this episode we made some references to previous episodes
- Book recommendations:
- How Stella Saved The Farm (Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble) – https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250002129/howstellasavedthefarm
- The Open Organization (Jim Whitehurst) – https://www.redhat.com/en/explore/the-open-organization-book
- Radical Candor (Kim Scott) – https://www.radicalcandor.com/
- Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey) – https://www.amazon.com/Immunity-Change-Potential-Organization-Leadership/dp/1422117367
- Getting Real (Jason Fried, David Heinemeir Hansson) – https://basecamp.com/gettingreal
- Business Model Canvas (Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur) – https://www.strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation
- Value Proposition Design (Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith, Trish Papadakos) – https://www.strategyzer.com/books/value-proposition-design
- Subway maps
- Transit Maps website
- Video of one example of the rabbit hole when you google the term “how to create a subway map”
- And for those of you who have good ears and heard some dogs barking in the background around minute 51 – here are the responsible puppies FYI
Credits
Music by Jeremy Voltz, www.jeremyvoltzmusic.com
- CP1 (Welcome)
- Lofi Lobby Loop (Interlude 1
- Airplane Seatbelt (Interlude 2)
- Cowbell (Interlude 3)
- South Wing (Outro)
Roland Woldt has spent nearly 30 years helping organizations cut through complexity — transforming how they think about their architecture, processes, and strategy. A former officer in the German Armed Forces, he has held executive and leadership roles at Accenture, Software AG/IDS Scheer, KPMG, and iGrafx, leading engagements across the full project lifecycle from solution design to rollout.
Roland is the author of Successful Architecture Implementation and Successful Process Mining Projects, and co-hosts the podcast What’s Your Baseline?, where he demystifies Enterprise Architecture and BPM for practitioners worldwide. Learn more at woldt.de.
