
Episode 28 – Quality Excellence: Wings Liang
A few months ago we had an initial look at how to manage and implement change in our conversation with Caspar Jans (in Episode 16) and we are continuing that series with an excellent conversation with Wings Liang about Quality Excellence and how organizations need to “shift left” and can gain competitive advantage by changing their perspective. Wings helps […]

Episode 27 – BPM & EA Maturity
Welcome to another episode of our podcast. Today’s topic is about growing the practice by assessing and developing the maturity of your BPM or EA Maturity. In this episode of the podcast we are talking about: What is maturity and which three areas you should focus on (content, governance, adoption) Assessment of capabilities (5 big […]

Podcast – State of Process Automation guest appearance
This is a first – I was invited to be a guest on Christoph Pacher’s State of Process Automation podcast, and it was the first podcast that I did in German! We spoke about Process Mining and how this can fit into the Process / Solution Lifecycle, to ensure that processes are designed to be […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 / […]

Process Empathy – What’s Your Baseline Shorts 7
People. For better or worse, a lot of the topics in EA and BPM center around people. They are the reasons why we do things (customers who pay for our goods and services), who does the work (employees and partners), or why processes and architectures even exist in the first place. In this What’s Your […]

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 […]

What makes a good dashboard – What’s Your Baseline Shorts 6
Everyone wants to consume and understand large amounts of data. But how do you plan, design, and implement a good dashboard? In this What’s Your Baseline Shorts, J-M and Roland walk you through the process and the considerations at each step, so that the next time you create a dashboard (for example as part of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]