Ep. 34 - Process Automation: Bernd Rücker

<p>Being the reasonable adult seems to be the parallel topic of this week's episode - even though the main topic is process automation. We were just so excited in our conversation that we got carried away&nbsp;</p> <p>In this episode of the <a href="//whatsyourbaseline.com/podcast" target="_blank">What's Your Baseline podcast</a> we speak with Bernd Rücker. He is a software developer at heart who has been innovating process automation deployed in highly scalable and agile environments of industry leaders such as T-Mobile, Lufthansa, ING, and Atlassian. Bernd contributed to various open-source workflow engines for more than 15 years and is the Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of Camunda – an open-source software company reinventing process automation.&nbsp;</p> <p>Bernd is also the author of "Practical Process Automation" and co-author of "Real-Life BPMN". Additionally, he's a regular speaker at conferences around the world and a frequent contributor to several technology publications. He focusses on new process automation paradigms that fit into modern architectures around distributed systems, microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and reactive systems.</p> <p>We are talking about these topics:</p> <ul> <li>Bernd's background and why he never had a 'proper job', and how Consulting influenced the product development</li> <li>The difference between process orchestration and process (task) automation</li> <li>How to use BPMN for orchestration and how the orchestration engine, well, orchestrates automation at the end points</li> <li>Automation with code and other means (RPA, low code/no code)</li> <li>Client examples and what to do or not to do</li> </ul> <p>You can find Bernd on LinkedIn here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernd-ruecker/">Bernd Ruecker | LinkedIn</a> or send an email to <a href="mailto:bernd.ruecker@camunda.com">bernd.ruecker@camunda.com</a>. His personal website is <a href="https://berndruecker.io/" target="_blank">https://berndruecker.io/</a>.</p> <p>The fu