Communicating the value of architecture

Episode 26 – Communicating the value of architecture: Laurie Kelly

One of the biggest problems of architecture groups was (is?) that they are doing good work, but that will not be recognized by others. One of the causes for that is that their repository and artifacts have almost no visibility outside of their group. To mitigate this situation, we are speaking with Laurie Kelly about […]

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What’s Your Baseline Podcast – Season 3 Trailer

We’re back! Welcome to Season 3 of the What’s Your Baseline podcast. A big thank you for more than 7500 downloads… so far! This season we’re continuing our deep dive into three areas relevant to architecture and process management professionals (and casual fans!). The first area is “content” – we will explore various topics, including […]

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Episode 25 – (Another) Ten Things I’ve Learned

We made it – 25 long form episodes of the podcast (and 7 “Shorts” as well). By popular demand – and because our statistics shows it – we are having “(Another) Ten Things I’ve Learned” episode. This time we are talking about three major areas: How to measure your architecture and improvement programs Architecture / […]

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Episode 24 – Task Mining & RPA: Kevin Scully and Ziv Ilan

Task Mining and RPA are things that are often overlooked when looking at Process Mining. This can leave a big hole in the discovered process and therefore create an incomplete analysis result. In today’s podcast we are speaking with Kevin Scully and Ziv Ilan from Nintex Kryon about Task Mining, what results you can expect […]

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Episode 23 – How to create a business case

Welcome to another episode of our podcast. Today’s topic is about creating a formal business case as part of the change process. Creating a business case document can be a challenge for someone who has not done that before, and one might think that this is a single-person activity. Nothing could be further from the […]

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How to get into Process Mining – What’s Your Baseline Shorts 5

Process Mining is THE hot technology in our industry these days. But how do you get involved in it, and which skills do you need to bring to the table? In this Shorts episode we are talking about: What is Process Mining? How is a Process Mining project different from a “regular BPM project”? What […]

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Episode 22 – Selecting the right team: Ansgar Bittermann

Selecting the right team members is not an easy situation – especially when you are a small or medium-sized organization that cannot hire as freely as they might want. In today’s podcast conversation we are talking about how to plan for staffing and select the right people for your architecture/transformation teams with our guest, Ansgar […]

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What makes a good POC/POV – What’s Your Baseline Shorts 4

One part of the buying process is a POC/POV (Proof of Concept/Proof of Value). If done right, those require a significant effort from both parties – buyers and sellers – so you want to make the best out of this situation and not waste everybody’s time. In this Shorts episode we are talking about: What […]

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Episode 21 – Consulting in Process Mining: Jakub Dvořák

The topic “Process” seems to have a renaissance these days. A lot of younger folks are deciding to work in this industry, and a not so small part of this might be caused by the exciting new technology of Process Mining, which seems to be natural for people who grew up with technology in all […]

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Episode 20 – Process Mining: James Dening

Sometimes things in business kill the best podcast publishing schedule. Today’s guest, James Dening, the CEO of Minit, has sold the firm to Microsoft on March 31. Nevertheless, this interview with him is very insightful regarding his way to becoming the CEO, process mining as a discipline, as well as the process mining market compared […]

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Process Simulation in practice

As a follow-up to the Process Simulation article from a few days ago, here are a couple of recordings of how you can do simulation in Software AG’s ARIS tool. Our preferred co-host of the What’s Your Baseline Podcast, J-M Erlendson, has created them as part of his day job. Grab some popcorn, have a […]

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Capabilities in an architecture – What’s Your Baseline Shorts 2

The topic of this second “Shorts” podcast episode is “Capabilities”. We spoke about this in Episode 2 – “Why EA and BPM?”, but received some feedback that we should dig deeper into this topic. So here it is 🙂 The high-level topics of this episode are: What is the difference between a capability and a […]