At Centrum Systems we were curious to see the response of the initial release of the Hudson/Jenkins build pipeline plugin by the community. We were pleased with the uptake and received some brilliant feedback including bugs and enhancement requests. Yesterday we published a minor update to the plugin that resolves the majority of the issues [...]

At Centrum we are often brought in by organisations that want to improve the quality of their software deliverables and remove some of the unwanted “excitement” from the delivery process.  We love engagements like this because it means that the client understands that there is a cost to neglecting to focus on quality and that [...]

I attended the Pega Business Process Symposium today in Melbourne, which had quite an impressive turnout considering it was the inaugural holding in Melbourne. The large turnout  –  there must have been close to 100 people there –  is indicative of the traction that Pega has made in recent times in the Australian market. Other than [...]

We are pleased to announce that we are donating the Centrum build pipeline plugin to the open source community.  This is a plugin developed for the popular Hudson and Jenkins Continuous Integration servers. This was developed to assist with the orchestrating the promotion of a version of software through quality gates and into production. By [...]

At Centrum we like to say we’re the folks our clients come to when there are some measures that haven’t been moving (and they want them to start moving and move in the right direction) We call this Moving the Measures and its a mantra we use to guide us in creating powerful and enduring [...]

Untested codeThere are many reasons and excuses why some applications are untested by automated tests, or at least not very tested.  It could be an older application, the application might have been hard to test, or people writing it simply did not have the habit of writing automated tests.  Having said that, most of us [...]

Last week I was casually flicking through the pages of a book called BPMN Method and Style and a passage in the introduction caught my attention… words to the effect that the clarity and effectiveness of BPMN models depends more on what’s not stated in the BPMN specification than what is stated in the specification [...]

Some not so good News Its around 4pm on a Tuesday, we have completed our Review at the end of the third iteration and we are about to start the Retrospective in what is now going to be a four rather than three-iteration Initial Release. Since starting the project – using Scrum for the first [...]

I recently saw the review of AWD 10 from Bruce Silver (http://www.awdbpm.com/bruce_silver_on_awd10_oct_2010.pdf), where he was outlining the virtues of AWD 10. Now to be open I have been bitten by AWD in the past and have some painful memories. These were not necessarily all the fault of AWD, but partially that we were trying to [...]

When reading the 2010 Forrester Wave Report for BPMS there were a couple of take aways for me, but the main one being the considerations for what is required in a BPMS. One titled ‘Next-Generation BPM Suites Empower Process Owners, Business Users, And Customers’ and the other on how to select a BPMS (‘Which BPM [...]