Comments on: IBM produces Serious Game to promote BPM http://www.bpmn.info/2009/03/31/ibm-produces-serious-game-to-promote-bpm/ world's sexiest process models Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:37:17 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alan Crean http://www.bpmn.info/2009/03/31/ibm-produces-serious-game-to-promote-bpm/comment-page-1/#comment-10219 Alan Crean Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:03:00 +0000 http://www.bpmn.info/?p=87#comment-10219 I liked the video - its very well produced - even though <a href="http://www.processmaster.com/Training-Videos/ProcessPad-Quick-Start-Guide.html" rel="nofollow">this one</a> is not as well produced by me, its a bit more usefull I liked the video – its very well produced – even though this one is not as well produced by me, its a bit more usefull

]]> By: alex.grosskopf http://www.bpmn.info/2009/03/31/ibm-produces-serious-game-to-promote-bpm/comment-page-1/#comment-8693 alex.grosskopf Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:34:00 +0000 http://www.bpmn.info/?p=87#comment-8693 Thanks for the hint to your review. It's indeed helpful to get an impression. Let's see what version 2.0 can do. Thanks for the hint to your review. It’s indeed helpful to get an impression. Let’s see what version 2.0 can do.

]]> By: Thomas Allweyer http://www.bpmn.info/2009/03/31/ibm-produces-serious-game-to-promote-bpm/comment-page-1/#comment-8649 Thomas Allweyer Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:58:00 +0000 http://www.bpmn.info/?p=87#comment-8649 Innov8 would be a very nice and usefule serious game - if the "save" button worked. For the current version you need at least 2 hours to finish the game. If you want to use it in a university course, in which you usually have 1.5 hours lessons, you need to be able to save the game in order to continue next time. The user forum is full of complaints of lecturers who would love to use the game for teaching, but who can't because of the saving problem. Apparently, no one from IBM has looked into the user forum for years. I cannot understand why IBM puts lots of work into developing that game, and then doesn't care about fixing a minor bug, nor reading and answering posts in the game's forum. Hopefully the next version of the game will be better in that respect. My experiences with Innov8 are described in http://kurze-prozesse.de/?p=60 (German). P.S.: The BPMN novel is a good idea. Innov8 would be a very nice and usefule serious game – if the “save” button worked.

For the current version you need at least 2 hours to finish the game. If you want to use it in a university course, in which you usually have 1.5 hours lessons, you need to be able to save the game in order to continue next time. The user forum is full of complaints of lecturers who would love to use the game for teaching, but who can’t because of the saving problem. Apparently, no one from IBM has looked into the user forum for years.

I cannot understand why IBM puts lots of work into developing that game, and then doesn’t care about fixing a minor bug, nor reading and answering posts in the game’s forum.

Hopefully the next version of the game will be better in that respect.

My experiences with Innov8 are described in http://kurze-prozesse.de/?p=60 (German).

P.S.: The BPMN novel is a good idea.

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