{"id":221,"date":"2011-07-10T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T19:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2011-07-10T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T19:34:33","slug":"surviving-bpm-and-a-lesson-on-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Surviving BPM and a Lesson on Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The image is getting across the finish line in less-than-optimal conditions. As first-timer BPM projects go, let\u2019s think of engine smoke and a hopeful driver.<\/p>\n<p>I need to remind myself on this point: not everything lands in one piece when focused on winning. Vision is just about everything in this race. Parts wear out, pieces come unglued, bad stuff happens. There will be lots of failures along the way. As BPM does it most certainly will test your infrastructure &#8211; weakness points itself out by design and discoveries as painfully obvious as a flat tire and engine smoke\u2026 these will show themselves. There\u2019s no avoiding weakness on a BPM project. It\u2019s better to understand limitations both going into and during the race. These can be fixed. The end-goal however cannot be un-done. We either win or lose \u2013 never forget the vision. Winning may not be graceful but there\u2019s always a thousand reasons and rationalities for losing. Stay focused, save the apologies, and stow the complaints. We\u2019re in this race until it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically the race is between \u201cus\u201d on big, enterprise BPM projects. We only need to cross the finish line to win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image is getting across the finish line in less-than-optimal conditions. As first-timer BPM projects go, let\u2019s think of engine smoke and a hopeful driver. I need to remind myself on this point: not everything<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/?p=221\"> Read more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-process-management-bpm","category-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}