Standards, Universal Standards, and More D*** Standards

July 27th, 2011 by Scott Francis

XKCD often hits the target squarely, and they’ve done so again with this little gem that everyone in the BPM / BPMN space can appreciate:

Sure, maybe there were only 3-4 BPM standards going to 5 when BPMN was introduced… but now there’s BPMN 2… and one gets the feeling that there will be more!

But Gosling has a fantastic repartee that even more closely nails it:

Tell me the BPMN 2 specification doesn’t feel like that…!

Related posts:

  1. Universal Translators, Open Source, and BPMN 2
  2. BPMN too Complex?
  3. Another take on Process Modeling… it’s a Process.
  4. A BPMN 2.0 Update from Bruce Silver
  5. Don’t Take My Word for it: Jakob Freund says BPMN Works!

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