Customer Reviews

Business Process Management Common Body Of Knowledge

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I do not recomend this book at all. I'm deeply disapointed with the quality of the content. It seems that they are selling a draft, not a final document. If you want an incomplete dictionary of BPM terms and you don't mind about unreadable images, different styles and empty sections with "this section is under development and will be included in a future version" as unique paragraph, then this book may help.

I had high hopes however to say this book is not complete is an understatement. Aside from the obvious items missing, the unfortunate misunderstandings of the writer(s), and the clearly lacking research this book talks of BPM in the industrial age context. It fails to understand what differentiates the really successful organizations and their incisive work with BPM, compared with a top down silo'd view of the world beloved of monolithic insurance companies (for example).
Is there actually anything good to say? Perhaps D- and try better next time. Save your money and Google BPM - that's free and worth so much more than this.

I have a passion for BPM. I have to say honestly that I was a bit disappointed. I noted there were a number of typos and the diagrams were very hard to read. I think additional edits and artwork revisions are needed in the next revision. I noted that the book tells about the "whatâ" but not the "how" but that is expected, I guess from a Guidebook. I have read through the IIBA BABOK (2 versions) and the PMI PMBOK (2 versions) and there was a noticeable 'quality' difference in the printing and content than the BPM CBOK. I have not seen what the BMP CBOK exam questions are like. I am wondering if the questions are geared towards real life versus the guidebook. Testing for the PMP certification does not take into consideration the 'real world' but rather the PMBOK contents for example. BPM is evolving and I suspect the BPM CBOK will be refined in later revisions. I think the content provides highlights and suggested education to further the discipline. From my perspective I think the BPM CBOK is a 'work-in-process' and hopefully will be getting more input as time goes on.

This is a well presented precise document. No waffle. I thoroughly recommend it to someone that has limited time and knows what they want assistance with.