Best Matka Podcasts (2026)

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Ep. 104 - BPM Education: Daniel Matka 56:13

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We had episodes about BPM education on the show before, but this time we speak with someone who is from a different generation than your regular hosts. And our guest Daniel Matka is building a “Process Academy” to bring process management knowledge to the next generation. And while doing this, he's building modern ways of structuring content that w…

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Ep. 103 - Open-Source Automation: Dan Funk 56:06

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There has been a lot of consolidation in the process/architecture space in the last few years, mostly driven by PE firms. But why is that so, and why does it seem that there is no alternative to this business model? Back in the day there were foundations behind the companies, or they were privately held, and the only thing (besides a few smaller pl…

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Ep. 102 - Data Governance: Angelika Rinck 57:40

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To implement AI (and processes) correctly, you need good data. But what does that mean? Well, firstly it means that you can define your data product and to achieve that you need good data governance. But are we now in a super-nerdy topic? No, this is what we all do in some form or another … but in different fidelities and maturities. To shed some l…

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Ep. 101 - Lightweight EA: Eetu Niemi 57:03

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In this episode, we welcome Finnish enterprise architect and author Eetu Niemi to explore what it means to make enterprise architecture (EA) “lightweight”—practical, collaborative, and relevant in the real world. From frameworks to fiction writing, from ivory towers to coffee-fueled collaboration, this conversation dives into how to make EA actuall…

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Ep. 100 - A Special Occasion With Friends 1:09:12

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Welcome to a very special episode of What’s Your Baseline? — where we demystify enterprise architecture and business process management. In this milestone 100th episode, we are joined by fellow BPM podcasters from Prozess Philosophen and BPM360 to celebrate, reflect, and talk about the wild ride of creating content in this niche space. In this epis…

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Ep. 99 1/2 - BPMN 3(?) - Part 2 Ideas for Improvements 48:50

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Last week we took a deep(-er) look at what BPMN is today and pointed out the scope, difficulties, and misconceptions in the current specification. But what are ideas for improvements? I am glad that you asked, because this episode is exactly about this (with a slight twist to the business side of things). In this episode of the podcast, we talk abo…

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Ep. 99 - BPMN 3(?) ... Pt. 1 Definition, History, and Complaints 32:02

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BPMN—”the” standard for process modeling and also the foundation for process automation using BPMS tools—is currently in its version 2.02, and that version was published in early 2014. Since then? Crickets. So, why haven't we seen an update of the standard? That is a big question and since we had such a blast talking about this topic we went wayyyy…

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Ep. 98 - Decisions, Decisions ... with Tony Phillips 52:39

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There is a thing that I have not seen managed well in today's organizations: business rules. Typically, they are an “afterthought” in implementations (because you have to feed the business rules engine and control the process flow). But how many organizations rationalize the underlying business rules on a larger scale? When was the last time the ma…

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Ep. 97 - Successful Process Mining Projects 1:04:38

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Process Mining—a technology and technique that Gartner just called “early mainstream” in one of their last reports. But many people still don’t know exactly how to approach this thing. They listen to the vendors talking about technical integrations and all the fancy features, which—to be honest—can be pretty overwhelming for someone who is just loo…

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Ep. 96 - Integrated Management System: Vassilik Spentzou 55:28

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We are hundreds of years into thinking about how we do work (insert your philosopher of choice here: Smith, Marx, Plato, etc.), but I get the impression that the most common style is “muddling through.” But why is that? Why has the concept of an Integrated Management System (IMS) not taken hold in many organizations? Is it too complicated? Too much…

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Ep. 95 - Green BPM: Katharina Paulick 51:51

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Having lived in two cultures, it is so interesting to see how people cope with big problems. Climate change and sustainability are some of the biggest issues that we have to deal with in our lifetimes, and I see reactions from denial to aimless “do-gooder” activity. But how do you improve this situation and solve the problem to get to more sustaina…

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Ep. 94 - AI Hype: Maxwell Smith 1:06:19

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We are back with our first episode of the brand-new season 9 of the podcast—and we are starting right into the topic of these days: AI … well, the AI hype that is out there. And we are discussing what you can do to avoid falling into the trap of falling for that hype. Our guest today is Maxwell Smith, who I had the pleasure of working with in a pas…

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Season 9 Trailer 0:59

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Soooooo … We're a grown-up adult podcast now, and we're approaching our season 9. (Oh, so you claim.) If season 8 was great, will season 9 just be fine? More than fine. The world might be in chaos, but we are a safe harbor. Come join us, full of good friends, good cheer, and excellence in BPM and EA. And of course, even we are changing. So we resis…

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Second Chance: APQC visualized - What's Your Baseline Shorts 10 16:30

6M ago16:30

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Today we have our last “What's Your Baseline?” short during our little summer break. And this time we're looking at something special. This is a Shorts about APQC and we had a long episode with Moritz Berger about what that framework is and all of those things. Moritz put in the APQC reference framework into a tool called The Brain. What I really l…

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Second Chance: Simulation — What's Your Baseline Shorts 3 16:01

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This week we release another What's Your Baseline? Shorts for you just to lighten up our summer break a bit. The topic is why simulation should not be in your process mining tool. And I'm fully aware that this is a controversial thing because people might think, “Well, it's convenient to have it in your process mining tool to do some what-ifs and m…

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Second Chance: What Makes A Good Dashboard - What's Your Baseline? Shorts 6 17:38

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Today, we are re-releasing a “What's Your Baseline?” short from about two and a half years ago. And the topic of today is how to create good dashboards. And I do not think about how to do this mechanically with your tool of choice. I'm thinking about what is the thinking behind it. That might be because I'm currently writing on the chapter about da…

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Second Chance: EPC vs. BPMN - What's Your Baseline? Shorts 1 15:17

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We are off for a few weeks, but instead of leaving you without your regular What's Your Baseline? fix , we decided to do something different this summer. Since we started the podcast almost four years ago, we have grown quite a bit, and back in Season 2 we did a little "side show" and produced the "What's Your Baseline? Shorts" - 15 minutes, one to…

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Ep. 93 - Solution Architecture 57:50

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The world is changing faster than one might think, or at least it appears this way … and nobody seems to do solution architecture anymore. And plenty of organizations seem to have given up on planning what they are doing and changing in their system landscape, organizations, processes, etc. But that is wrong. You need to describe the changes so tha…

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Ep. 92 - Emotional Intelligence: Steve Ponting 50:42

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Some folks go to work and are drained before they even turn on their computer, and they cannot figure out why that is when all the aspects of the job seem to be fine — the tasks, the title, the money. What they don't see is that the managers might be the reason, and that the managers miss emotional intelligence — the ability to “read the room” — an…

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Ep. 91 - Leading Effective Change: Neelesh Harmalker 55:27

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Have you noticed transformation fatigue in your organization? The feeling that you run faster and faster, and have to do more with less, while you don't accomplish the results of the changes that you were out for? Well, one aspect of that might be that you haven't “picked up” the folks in your organization where they are, and now they are working s…

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Ep. 90 - Legacy Modernization: Kastin Deal 44:56

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In many minds, legacy is “everything that works”. And even if that is not always true, many organizations look at their legacy systems and get a headache. How do you replace or update a set of systems that have served you so well over years or decades? That is why we are speaking with our guest Kastin Deal about legacy modernization in this episode…

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Ep. 89 - Business Process Management Trends: Zbigniew Misiak 48:20

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Having the “Oracle of BPM” on the show? Yes, please. Even though our guest, Zbigniew Misiak, denies that, the role he is playing is an important one for our little industry. He is one of the few who bring together the different ideas and trends that are hot every year. We were genuinely interested in speaking with him about what he learned over the…

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Ep. 88 - AI-Driven Task Mining: Tuhin Chakraborty⁠ 47:08

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We have spoken about Task Mining in the podcast before (see the “Additional information” section in the full show notes), but I haven't seen a lot of adoption of this technology in organizations — for multiple reasons that we will discuss. However, when we got into contact with Tuhin Chakraborty from Mimica, we could not say “no” to speaking with h…

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Ep. 87 - Process Management Education: Matúš Mala 1:04:43

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BPM is important because everything that we do in organizations are processes. So, why don't we agree on a common nomenclature, and educate people with a standardized curriculum? Oh, it is because the players have a vested interested in coming up with “the next best thing” and selling it to your customers? But there is the need for a basic training…

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Ep. 86 - Successful Architecture Implementation (Roland wrote a book) 1:01:45

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We are trying something new here at What's Your Baseline? — J-M turns his focus on investigative journalism and starts asking the “hard questions” (and not just the softballs that I get from him at other times) :-) But in all seriousness — this episode of the podcast is a conversation between the two of us, while I play the guest role and did not c…

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Ep. 85 - OKRs: Ben Lamorte 54:55

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I was late to the game when I got exposed to the concept of OKRs a few years ago. Before that, I thought that it was just another term for setting objectives, and you can dump a million of those onto your people. But there is a different approach, a much gentler approach to OKRs, that makes more sense to me now. And because I found that mental chan…

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Ep. 84 - Unleashed Enterprise Architecture: Leslie Robinet 55:30

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One misconception that many people have is that EA is just “that IT stuff”. Nothing is more false than that. If you *really* look at an enterprise, you will see that a full architecture encompasses all layers from strategy through business (processes, risks, orgs, etc.) to data, apps, and technology. But the real benefit is that you can create a li…

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Ep. 83 - Process Community: Hanneke Loefs-Mos 46:34

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Why are so many organizations out there that have not discovered BPM (and in extension “architecture”) as something that can help their business problems, and also set the foundation for future growth? Some reasons might lie in the niche characteristics (to avoid saying “nerdy”) of BPM and the lack of shared community and branding. That is why we i…

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Ep. 82 - Process Analysis 59:48

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Welcome back to a new year and Season 8 of the What's Your Baseline Podcast, and we are starting with an episode that closes the loop with two other episodes (links below): “Process Mining Analysis” and “Lean and Process Mining”. Today we are talking about Process Analysis in general, and we are thinking of the new business analyst especially, who …

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Season 8 Trailer 0:56

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Hey, this is Roland from the What's Your Baseline? Podcast and J.M. was also happy to be here. Yeah. We're looking forward to our next season, season eight of the What's Your Baseline podcast. Who believes that? So, J.M. Tell me, what's in stock for season eight? Well, we've listened to you. You've left us amazing feedback all over the internet, an…

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Ep. 81 - 2024 in Review 1:12:23

1y ago1:12:23

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The end is near … no, not what you are thinking. 2024 comes to a close in about two weeks, and we also end Season 7 of the podcast. And a lot has happened — in the industry, with tools, changes in companies and the life of people in our small community. Tune in to learn about our thoughts about what we’ve seen in the last year and an outlook for 20…

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Ep. 80 - Execution-Aligned Strategy: Dan Marquez and Craig Overmars 55:19

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How do you bridge the gaps between Strategy and Execution, and how do you evolve execution as strategy pivots? That are the questions that are the topic of our podcast this week - the first of two episodes of a collaboration with the "Strateg-ish" podcast, run by our friends Craig Overmars and Dan Marquez, who has been a guest on our show before. T…

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Ep. 79 - GRC From a Process Perspective: Michael Schank 49:55

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GRC — three letters that scare a lot of people. So much that they like to avoid thinking of risks and compliance at all. But don’t be afraid (quite the opposite), GRC can not only be an addition to your artifacts to make them better, they can also benefit to your program by “having the ear” of influential people in your organization … who, by coinc…

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Ep. 78 - EA Use Cases 55:47

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I know that this might be a cultural issue, but I don't see a lot of planning when it comes to projects anymore. Everything is "Agile" and I don't see that things are seen through that often. Which is bad, because one of the promises of EA (and BPM) is that someone understands how things are wired up and what to change, so that you accomplish your …

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Ep. 77 - Mergers & Acquisitions: Luca de Risi and Nick Reed 54:56

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There was a big splash in the Enterprise Architecture tool market a few weeks ago - BizzDesign announced that they will merge with Mega and an unnamed third party (which we will learn about in Q4 soon, but cannot name here at this time). But why these two (three) players and why now? Since we know some people in the industry, I reached out to Luca …

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Ep. 76 - BPM/EA Misconceptions: Caspar Jans & Russell Gomersall 1:02:09

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Oh, why do I need a special EA/BPM tool? I am managing my apps in a spreadsheet just fine. That is one of the misconceptions that I have heard over the last twenty-something years of me helping clients to stand up practices and increase their EA/BPM maturity. And there are tons more of those ... Well, our first guest doesn't need an introduction si…

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Ep. 75 - Business Architecture For A New Product: Mike DeCamp 51:13

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Do you need Business Architects when creating a new product? Isn't that a bit redundant when you have highly-paid Product Managers already? Or is there an overlap between the two that will create a better product for the end users, but also for the organization because they can better support it and it is aligned with the underlying process. Our gu…

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Ep. 74 - Process Mining Readiness: Olaf Geyer 42:29

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A lot of folks who are beginning with Process Mining see this as a technical or academic exercise and just want to know “how things works”. But what is that worth? You need to be able to implement changes based on your analysis. Otherwise, the exercise has no value IMHO (besides if it is a Proof-of-Concept in a sales situation, but even then you sh…

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Ep. 73 - Leading High-Performance Architecture Teams: Amy Levine 51:01

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Some organizations seem to perform better, create results faster, and the people in those organizations seem to have fun on top if this? But how can that be when you are currently stretched in all directions and don't know how to get stuff done? In this episode we are talking with Amy Levine, who is an expert in neuroscience and how it impacts high…

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Season 7 Trailer 0:56

1+ y ago0:56

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Hey J-M, what do think when you hear the word “seven”? Well, maybe the seven wonders of the world? Seven rings? Seven deadly sins? My favourite song by Ariana Grande? Hmm, these are all good ideas, but how about a Season 7 of the What’s Your Baseline podcast? No way, what do we have in store for this season? A mix of interviews and topic shows, jus…

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Ep. 72 - The Retirement Challenge: Peggy McCann 55:33

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Some organizations are like a ticking time bomb when it comes to their processes and (IT) architecture. "The old guard" is about to leave the organization in masses (and sometimes not voluntarily) and a lot of knowledge about how things are wired up - which is what architecture is all about, right? - will leave as well. And not too many organizatio…

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Ep. 71 - Business Architecture Implementation - A User Story: Breanne Casteel 1:00:49

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How do I get started? What is the first thing that I look at? Who will be my allies? What do I need to put in place? When you are tasked to build a brand new Business Architecture practice in an organization that has not had one before is a challenging task. When you have to do this in a 60-year old organization in a field that is relatively unique…

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Ep. 70 - BPM Use Cases 1:10:47

1+ y ago1:10:47

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"I just bought your tool, now you have to tell me what I can do with it". No kidding, that is what one client to said to me once. Well, here is a starter for you - in our latest episodes we are talking about the use cases for Business Process Management (not all of them, because we have that self-imposed limit of an hour-ish length for each episode…

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Ep. 69 - Building Community: Heather Wendt 1:04:31

1+ y ago1:04:31

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Why do some applications have a large following and their revenues soar, while others are struggling with making a sale and are virtually unknown? Or why do you struggle with building internal acceptance for your program? One reason might be that the former companies were able to build a community that includes not only users (and ends up being a g…

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Ep. 68 - AI and BPM: Scott Armstrong 1:01:32

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AI is *the* hot thing these days and you cannot pass any tool that does not have these two characters attached to it. That is also true for the BPM space, and this week we have the pleasure to speak with a person who is working in this space for over 20 years and his tool has built in AI already, while other vendors are still thinking about how to …

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Ep. 67: Low-Code/No-Code Automation: Maximilian Neumaier 1:03:18

1+ y ago1:03:18

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The age old question: how do you make your processes "evergreen". Well, one way is to update your models on a regular basis (for example to comply with regulations), but is that really "the process" or is it just a picture of it? Your processes come to life when someone performs them and for this you need to be able measure them. To support the pro…

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Ep. 66 - BPM Adoption Framework: Caspar Jans 1:06:30

2y ago1:06:30

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You have chosen to start your BPM journey and are now asking yourself the question "how *DO* I get started?". Well, one way is to look at a BPM Adoption Framework, the other is to ask someone who has done that before. We are lucky to speak with someone who fulfills both criteria - our guest today is Caspar Jans, who also already has been a guest in…

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Ep. 65 - Data Modeling 1:00:48

2y ago1:00:48

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This episode closes out the mini series about data, and this time we talk about data modeling. Data models are some of the things that I have seen the least often in projects over the last two decades. Why is that? Is it because it is too geeky, or not interesting enough compared to, say, a process model in BPMN? But being clear about data is impor…

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Ep. 64 - Data Projects: Wiebke Apitzsch 58:21

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A lot of projects are just looking at processes and applications. One thing that typically does not get the limelight is the data that is needed to empower these two things. But why is that? Is it because data is "invisible" and cannot be touched or felt? Our guest today is Wiebke Apitzsch, who is working in "data" for over 15 years with companies …

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Ep. 63 - Process Mining Data: Lotte Vugs 57:18

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As we all know, the majority of time in a process mining project is in some form or fashion related to data preparation and a significant lower share of time is spent on the actual analysis. There are multiple ways of getting you data into shape (SQL, visual data modeling tools, etc.), but our guest today has developed an approach and a tool to fli…