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By John Matthews, Fast Company, 2009
If you stepped into a Fortune 500 boardroom in the early 2000s, you’d hear a new set of buzzwords ricocheting off the mahogany: workflow, integration, orchestration, BPM. Business Process Management was no longer a back-office concern. Suddenly, it was the engine of digital transformation—and the hottest ticket in enterprise IT.
By Alex Ivanov, Application Support Engineer, 2007
Working in first-line support for program-trading platforms in a corporate bank is both a privilege and a stress test for any engineer. Our clients — corporate traders using custom-built order management systems — expect speed, clarity, and no-nonsense solutions. When I joined the team, support was handled mainly via shared inboxes, spreadsheets, and the occasional hallway shout. As ticket volumes and system complexity grew, it became clear: we needed real incident management.
Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most influential movements in enterprise efficiency over the last decade. As companies around the world strive for agility and operational excellence, BPM systems are making headlines for their role in transforming previously rigid, paper-heavy operations into nimble digital workflows.
By Alexey Smirnov, Software Engineer, Novosoft, 2003
When I first hear about Extreme Programming (XP), honestly, I think, "Sounds crazy, maybe some new American hype." But in our company in Novosibirsk, my manager says, "Let’s try! If we fail, we learn something anyway."
So, our team starts real XP experiment.