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Get started with WebSphere business process management V6.1 software
Learn about WebSphere business process management by using the Clips and Tacks sample to build and deploy a business process, and configure a business dashboard to monitor that process. More >
Requirements Management
Requirements ManagementArticles and tutorials showing how to analyze and manage requirements.
  • Tracking action items: Designed for tracking software requirements, Rational IBM Rational RequisitePro also has the flexibility to track organization ...
  • Process dev. methodology: IBM Rational RequisitePro is a "team-based requirements management tool". This seems to be a simple enough concept, but in reality RequisitePro's ...
  • Requirements management: Read chapter 1 from a new book on requirements management, featuring IBM Rational RequisitePro.
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Business Modeling
Business modelingArticles and tutorials showing how to model and simulate business processes.
  • Advanced simulation: IBM WebSphere Business Modeler (hereafter called Modeler) is a powerful tool for creating business process models. It lets you simulate models to ...
  • Transforming bus. models: This article shows how WebSphere Business Modeler transforms different constructs into WS-BPEL. The graphical representation of the WS-BPEL...
  • What's new: Learn about the new features of WebSphere Business Modeler V6.1 that enhance business user productivity, support BPM interoperability, and improve ...
  • Modeling human tasks: Learn how to consolidate human tasks in WebSphere Business Modeler while minimizing changes in WebSphere Integration Developer and retaining all of...
  • Discover bus. processes: Learn how using WebSphere Business Modeler for business process discovery and modeling can get your business project management projects off and ...
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Process Management
Process managementArticles and tutorials showing how to accelerate process improvement and facilitate business innovation.
  • Optimize bus. operations: Discover how business process management (BPM) fits into the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) life cycle. This series, using architectural ...
  • Why BPM is important: This installment in the Architecture in practice column focuses on why business process management (BPM) is imperative for both the business and ...
  • BPM information resources: BPM information resources for business users provide the information you need to research, evaluate, architect, develop, and manage multi-product ...
  • BPM and SOA: Use new features of WebSphere Business Modeler V6.1 to enhance your business process definitions so that process owners can model their end-to-end ...
  • Integrate FileNet BPM: Analyze, design, and model using FileNet Business Process Manager and IBM Content Manager.
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Webcasts
  • WBM for developers: Covers the basics of business modeling, the business-driven development cycle, and how WebSphere Business Modeler works with other development tools.
  • Role of architecture: Introduces seven "Lessons for Success" in the creation of Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions across the enterprise.
  • Driving business success: Takes a peek into the Rational Process Library.
  • Achieving true agility: Showcases how you can become agile incrementally, a few practices at the time.
  • Value of Process Server: Discover how WebSphere Process Server simplifies integration of business processes by leveraging existing IT assets as reusable services.
  • Agile process management: Optimize your agile practices such as iterative development and self organization by understanding the latest agile process.
  • iRise and IBM Rational: Learn how iRise and IBM Rational tools work together to better define and manage requirements.
  • Requirements Management: Explore how effective requirements management can be your guide throughout the entire development lifecycle.
Worth THINKing about
What is SOA?
More than anything else, it is important to understand that SOA is a style of architecture -- a set of principles, practices, templates and standards for creating an enterprise architecture that is specifically derived from an understanding of the business design. More >
Tools
Tools for the business analystTools that help you capture requirements and model and simulate business processes.
  • RequisitePro: IBM Rational RequisitePro helps you manage your requirements, write good use cases, improve traceability, reduce project risks, and increase quality.
  • Business Modeler: IBM WebSphere Business Modeler helps you fully visualize, understand, and document your business processes.
  • iRise for IBM Rational: iRise Connect for IBM Rational helps users of RequisitePro benefit from a visual approach to application definition.
  • Team Unifying Platform: IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform unifies your team by providing common access to development assets, communication alerts and workflow processes.
  • Telelogic DOORS: Telelogic DOORS provides comprehensive support for recording, structuring, managing, and analyzing requirements and their traceability.
Training
TrainingCourses and certification programs to help you develop your business analyst skills.
BPM Podcast
Angel DiazIBM director of IBM WebSphere Business Integration defines business process management, the development climate that demands it, and offers examples of how it has transformed businesses.
Downloads
DownloadsFree trial versions of products and tools. Take them for a spin.
  • RequisitePro: Download a free trial version of IBM Rational RequisitePro.
  • Business Modeler: Download a free trial version of IBM WebSphere Business Modeler.
  • SOA Sandbox for Process: A trial environment with the necessary tooling and components required to gain a better understanding of business processes.
  • Innov8 BPM Simulator: INNOV8 is an interactive, 3-D simulator designed to teach the fundamentals of business process management.
Demos
DemosQuick product walkthroughs that help you see how it's done.
  • Creating requirements: This demo guides you through the various ways of creating project requirements using the IBM Rational RequisitePro tool.
  • Managing requirements: View a 5-minute demonstration of the requirements management capabilities of Telelogic DOORS.
Agile RUP Podcast
Scott AmblerScott Ambler is Practice Leader Agile Development with IBM Rational, (co)-author of 19 books including many on Agile development, and a senior contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal. He talks about his experiences from the trenches.
Welcome to the business analyst space!
Description: Keep up to date with the latest tools and best practices for business analysts to help translate business requirements into IT requirements. Confer and collaborate with other business analysts in an online community environment.
Objective: To help business analysts find articles and tutorials, tool downloads, forums, blogs, training, events, and other resources to help them analyze business requirements and optimize business processes with IT solutions.
Audience: Business Analysts
  Group type: Public
Date created: 11 Mar 2008
Forums
Blogs
Simon Johnston photo Simon Johnston's "Service Oriented Architecture and Business-Level Tooling" blog: Simon has written articles on the subjects of business modeling, software modeling and SOA and is interested to see where and when these threads will combine.
Professional Associations
  • IIBA: The International Institute of Business Analysts is an independent non-profit professional association serving the growing field of Business Analysis.
developerWorks briefings
  • Managing requirements: Discover the role that requirements play in the development lifecycle -- from business modeling to design and test.
Events
  • RSDC: IBM Rational Software Development Conference: June 1 -5, 2008, Orlando, Florida
  • PW & WCBA: ProjectWorld and the World Congress for Business Analysts National: November 18 - 21, 2008, Orlando, Florida
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