For those of you not directly involved with OMG, it might be interesting to know that since some days a first public submission for BPMN 2 is available on OMG's homepage. This is of course not yet the final specification, but at least the overall picture gets clearer now. You will notice many open issues while browsing the document. But it still shows how BPMN 2 is going to look like.
Bruce already has a first review on the submission. Of course, there are still many problems and unclear definitions. Like Bruce, I was also wondering about the very blurry definition of business process diagram. But I'm pretty sure that those problems will be removed in the final specification. However, I like to encourage everybody to provide such detailed comments as Bruce did. That is why a public draft is released so that everybody can comment on it!
Now what is your first impression of the BPMN 2 draft? Are you satisfied or were you looking for something else?
There are two competing drafts on OMG’s homepage. The one IDS Scheer was involved is available at
http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?bmi/2008-09-04
It is also the one Bruce Silver is commenting on.
Does anyone have a link that does not require a OMG member login that you could e-mail me? We are members at Oracle, but I am not sure who our point person is just yet.
If you have a link or could e-mail me the file please send it to ken.pulverman(at)oracle.com.
