This is a presentation for people with a business background who want to implement Activiti. It tells the story on how I put Activiti in production with little technical background while walking the thin line between satisfying business users and tackling technical challenges. Presented at Activiti Community Meetup in Antwerp (march 2, 2016)

1. From Activiti rookie to
BPM rebel
By Yannick Spillemaeckers
inuits

2. Basic Toolkit
EL Expressions
ISO 8601

3. Job Executor
Asynchronous
continuations

4. 1.3 seconds 2.5 seconds 0.4 seconds
What is taking so long? :(

5. Fixed :p

6. Something Broken?

7. Service Tomcat restart

8. Job Executor

9. Next Problem!

11. Asynchronous
continuations

12. Async=”true”

13. Async=”true”

14. Rollbacks

15. Business Process Mgmt

16. Understand the
organisation
Mission
Strategy
CultureDecision
Making
Existing IT
toolkit

17. People
SUPER
IMPORTANT
Get to know
them
Talk about
their work
Ask about what
they do
Involve them
global vs
specific view

18. Analyse your data
Key Performance
Indicators
BI Tools
Business Analytics
Visualisation
Ad Hoc reporting

19. (people don't like)
Change
Show the data
Tell them why
Celebrate Success
Keep some things
like before?
Decision makers
vs end users

20. Toolkit
EL Expressions
ISO 8601
Insight in your
organisation
People
Change
Management
BI Tools
Mission
Statement
Business
Analytics

21. Questions?
inuits
Yannick Spillemaeckers
@yannickspille