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Interesting checklist by Bob Glushko of "Berkeley". It is "a set of analysis and design phases that yield implementable models of business processes ". I was wondering if the order of the checklist mattered? E.g. shouldn't 'user types' be higher up than 'document types'? Well, Bob already posted a lengthy answer to my questions . Thanks Bob! Bob agrees with reorder of the checklist, but then it's not a nice acronym anymore (-- I understand, good reason). Bob explains the context of the checklist by telling about "the snake". It shows the change in order of the checklist. Nice model and I will "ride the snake"!

Yesterday I listened to two long and interesting podcasts by IT Conversations . One is an interview with John Newton , one of the founders of Documentum and now running Alfresco . The other is an interview with Robert Glushko about 'Document Engineering' . The interview with Newton is interesting for several reason. For one, Newton was at the beginning of content management software and gives a nice overview of the history of this world. Furthermore he also talks about the future of this market and why Alfresco (open source ECM) is and will be a player in that field. He also talks about "the end of enterprise software". Finally, not to mention more, he also gets into handling structured and unstructured information in a unified way (time: 59:00). Something that most vendors don't address. The talk with Glushko is interesting too. It's interesting to hear him talk about documents (12:00) and his shift from a technology approach to documents, to a more user/se...