Interestingly enough, the product that Lombardi Blueprint most often replaces for process mapping is not some high-end tool but rather Visio. So to let Visio users know that there was a better way to document their processes we launched a PPC campaign on Friday. The campaign takes the user to a landing page on our…
It’s 2009 and most of us appreciate the power of the community. It has been what has driven the ascendancy of free and open source software. It is what helped propel our current President to the White House. Obama community in action. Source: Huffington Post “I’m in charge here” doesn’t work for a community Although…
Last month we held our company kick off where all 200+ of our employees from all around the world gathered here in Austin for meetings to get set for the upcoming year. One of the highlights of the three days was the 4th annual Lombardi Science Fair. Each year, people are given a couple of…
I came across a pretty funny article in last week’s Time magazine that explained the reason why all of a sudden my old classmates from high-school, college and business school are coming out of the woodwork and joining Facebook. The sub-title (which is missing from the online version) best sums up the phenomenon: It was…
The latest Blueprint update debuted this weekend. Being a cloud-based application we are able to push out a new Blueprint release every ~6 weeks and drive continuous improvement in the product. (In case you’re wondering about the picture to the left, each release comes with its own cheesy-band code name. As you can probably guess,…
When I was at the Computer History Museum last month to attend Cloud Connect, I came across a familiar name outside one of the doors. Turns out that Proffesor Richard Tedlow had recently set up shop as the museum’s first resident scholar. Although he wasn’t my proffessor I definitely remember the name from my time…
At the end of last year, Blueprint Product Manager Dave Marquard and I had a call with Forrester analyst Clay Richardson to brief him on Lombardi Blueprint. The result of that call and a considerable amount of further research was a 6-page report that debuted last Friday — “Vendor Snapshot: Lombardi Blueprint Bridges Gap Between…
Salesforce.com was one of the Platinum Sponsors at Cloud Connect. I stopped by their booth and had a quick chat with Kavindra from developer marketing, Ash, a Force.com evangelist and Ryan a technical marketer. To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that will appear on the bottom. Some of the…
Yesterday I chatted with Dr. Joyce Statz who has been teaching a course at St. Edwards University in its school of management and business. Her course, “Multiple project and portfolio management” is offered as part of the Masters of Science in Project Management degree, and teaches how to manage multiple portfolios of project work in…
When I was out at Cloud Connect, I met Dan Woods who writes the Jargon Spy column for Forbes.com. Turns out Dan has a particular soft spot in his heart for BPM and I was able to give him a quick demo of Lombardi Blueprint. The result was his piece that came out yesterday, “Stalking…
On the second day of Cloud Connect I caught up with Kevin Gough of Google. Kevin leads marketing efforts for Google Apps, website search, enterprise search and geospatial products and we chatted a bit about the evolution of the Google Apps team. To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that…
The week before last, the Cloud Connect event in Mountain View kicked off with an “Evening in the Cloud.” Representatives from Google, Amazon Web Services, and Force.com pitched heads of IT on why they should move all their IT to the cloud. (Not sure who convinced whom, but it was an interesting debate nonetheless 🙂…
Along with Sam Charrington of Appistry and Bob Sutor of IBM, Alistair Croll, a partner at BitCurrent made up the panel at Cloud Connect that tackled standards and data portability/lock-in. I grabbed some time (2:31) with Alistair after his panel to follow up on a comment he made during the session regarding meta-data in the…
The first full day of Cloud Connect last week in Mountain View began with a panel discussion on standards and the cloud. One of the panelist was Sam Charrington, the VP of product management and marketing at Appistry. I was able to grab a few minutes (2:37) with the affable Sam after his session and…
Last week at Cloud Connect I was able to grab a few minutes with my old boss from Sun, Ian Murdock. Ian, the founder of the Debian Linux distribution, came to Sun to lead the Open Solaris charge and after that tackled Developer relations. Turns out that with the latest Sun re-org Ian has now…
Ok well maybe its not live but here’s a short (3:34) video I shot yesterday with David Berlind, the man behind Cloud Connect. The conference kicked off Tuesday night and continues, as I type, until this evening. To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that will appear on the bottom….
Today’s the day that the former Punahou School student pictured below gets sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. A couple of weeks ago there was a great article in the Washington Post about Obama and Punahou. As the article mentions, at the end of the Obamas’ vacation in Hawaii last month,…
Last night when I was checking my Google Alerts, I came across a job description for a Process Modler/Analyst position. In the Requirements Section it stated: “Experience with Lombardi Blueprint a plus.” It looks like Blueprint has arrived 🙂 Blueprint recognized Across the Pond In other Blueprint related news, at the end of last year…
I have recently been tagged by the Sardinian Data Charmer, Giuseppe Maxia to reveal 7 facts about myself. Last time this request for self-truth (see rules at the bottom of page) went around the blogosphere I had yet to start my illustrious blogging career . Well this time I’m ready! Here we go: I was…
Over the the holiday break I chatted with Stacie Kenney, a Business Process Analyst with West Bend Mutual Insurance. West Bend is located in Wisconsin and has been around since 1894. They offer property/casualty insurance for businesses, homes, autos, and personal property through independent agencies in six states. Stacie and I discussed how she worked…