| "An excellent hands-on book for practitioners eager to document the internal structure and everyday workings of business processes. This clear and practical book belongs on the shelf of everyone dedicated to mapping, maintaining, and streamlining business processes." ÂRichard Mark Soley, Phd, Chairman and CEO, OMG "Eriksson and Penker have not just written another patterns book; this is a significant contribution to the key field of business-IT alignment. While capturing profound academic insights, what makes the book so refreshing from a practitionerÂs viewpoint is the richness of accessible, down-to-earth examples and its pragmatic, unpretentious style."ÂPaul allen Principal of CBD Strategies and Architectures, Sterling Software
"UML may have been designed by and for software engineers, but Eriksson and Penker have defined a practical extension to UML for describing business processes. They put this extended UML immediately to use with a gallery of common business patterns that should jump start any BPR effort."ÂPhilippe Krchten, Director of Process Development Rational Software "This book is a marriage between proven busin ess modeling concepts and the techniques of UML. It provides real-world strategies for developing large-scale, mission-critical business systems in a manner accessible to both software and business professionals."ÂScottW. Ambler, Author of Process Patterns |