MWD advisors is running a survey on their blog (see "Is there room for architects and architecture in BPM?") exploring their audience's views on the role of IT architects and architecture in BPM. We plan to take the survey and encourage others to do this, as we are interested in seeing the results.
We feel that BPM exists as a discipline outside of any particular IT strategy, but as we have often mentioned in this blog, BPM can be a major driver of service-orientation, as well as governance and quality initiatives.
As the MWD blog points out, there is a lot of talk within the BPM technology vendor community about enabling customers to "scale up" their BPM initiatives. So they rightly suggest that IT architect involvement is likely to be a key factor in shaping how that happens in practice.
They have recently built relationship with the not-for-profit International Association of Software Architects (IASA), and asked them if they would help explore this question. This also want broader input, so we encourage you to participate in this survey and look forward to the results.
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