The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) is a coalition of organization in the area of workflow and business process management. See the WfMC Overview .

If you are interested in how this Wiki is to be used, please see Running WfMC Business on a Wiki for details.

Future Meetings

• WfMC Spring 2010 Meeting is Process.gov

Past Meetings:

• WfMC Meeting Dec 2008
• WfMC Meeting Sep 2008
• February Virtual Meeting
• WfMC Meeting, Mar 2009
• 2009 May Industry Brief on BPMN 2.0 webinar on May 19th by Robert Shapiro.
• 2009 June XPDL, Cambridge - the XPDL working group
• 2009 June WfMC, D.C. Not a member meeting.
• 2009 June WfMC, New York Stevens BPM Day Event
• 2009 Nov Thought Leader Summit, England - hosted by TIBCO

Technical Committee Working Groups

The technical committee of the WfMC does its work in working groups. Each group has a working group chairman and a specification editor. It is the goal of each working group to produce and maintain a specification on a particular topic. See the WfMC Technical Committee page.

Interface 1: Process Definition & Interchange ( BPMN & XPDL )

The work in this group centers on Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and XML Process Definition Language ( XPDL ). Check for progress on the XPDL2.2/BPMN2.0 Projects page.

Group: http://code.google.com/p/xpdl4bpmn/

Interface 2: Human Notification & Interaction ( Workcast )

A person is involved in a workflow process through a construct called a "Work Item" which appears on "Worklists". Interface 2 is about letting people konw about workitems, giving them access to the activity details, and ultimately to allow them to conclude the activity.

Group: http://groups.google.com/group/workcastprotocol?hl=en&lnk=

Interface 3: Service Invocation (SOAP & REST )

There are two efforts

Interface 4: Run-time Interoperability ( Wf-XML )

Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wfxml?hl=en

Interface 5: Administration and Monitoring ( BPAF )

External Relations Committee Working Groups

We have a couple of Special Interest Groups (SIG) for discussion and networking meetings.

BPMN Portability SIG

This group work together and inline with working group 1 in attempting to solve the problems with transporting a BPMN model from one point to another.

Model Preserving Strategy SIG

Clarifying the benefits of designing a workflow / BPM product around a single model which is created by a business person, and preserved through all phases of the lifecycle, even through to execution. See Model Preserving Strategy for more details.

Academic Program

See the WfMC Research Ideas page

Adaptive Case Management SIG

Not pre-determined BPM, but instead support for knowledge workers to create the procedures as they work. Manyof the same advantages as BPM, such as continual improvement of procedures, and quantitative measures of how effective they are, without the requirement that the procedures be programmed ahead of time. See Adaptive Case Management .

Steering Committee

See the WfMC Steering Committee page.

• http://www.wfmc.org/
• Workflow & BPM Wiki
• OGC
• Sept 10, 2008: Steering Committee Mini-Meeting
• Sept 24/25, 2008, WfMC Member Meeting
• Sept 26, 2008, BPM Bootcamp
• OGC OWS-6 Testbed
• Wf-XML-R
• http://s255844336.onlinehome.us/wfmc
• WebSite for WfMC
• Oct 7, 2008: BPM Standards Tutorial Paris
• Model Preserving Strategy
• Process Mining
• WfMC Steering Committee
• WfMC Technical Committee
• WfMC TeamSpeak
• ACM Book Project
• Email Hosting that supports Subaddressing