After some busy weeks I found the time to finish the 3rd article in my series of Business Process Experts. The document's title is BPX Part 3 – What Are the Skills and Tools? and (hopefully) holds what it promises. It gives you a list of
Basics
Soft Skills
Hard Skills
of what you would need to advance in your career from being a geek or business professional to a Business Process Expert. This article - of course - can only be a guide, and skills and tools need to be added. At least I aim at giving you something to touch, to digg in and compare with your matrix of skills and knowledge.
Unfortunately, I cannot give you an easy way to go there, as much is based on job and project experience. You cannot simply take a training and BANG you are a Business Process Expert. Beside the obvious tool and modeling knowledge, I also mention the knowledge about your business and industry. Start with a basic end-to-end process like order-to-cash and look for the deviations in your business.
And finally, I mention some soft skills that many geeks feel freightened about and many business professionals think they have it like communication and leadership skills. I feel passionate about that, because many good ideas and projects fail because of overseeing or ignoring those things. A successful(!) BPX knows and masters them.
In addition to authoring the articles, I did something else: after writing them I ripped them apart and put them into the BPX WIKI, where I invite you to add tools, skills and whatever else you think I missed or said wrong.
