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The suite also includes application development and content management tools, said Mark Treat, who was director of the state's project management office until he left last month for a post at Science Applications International Corp.
At the time it adopted the BPM tools, the state also standardized on the agile software development methodology, Treat said.
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Treat, who spoke about Rhode Island's BPM project last month at BrainStorm Group Inc.'s BPM conference in Virginia, said in a later interview that the new tool suite and methodology have allowed what was "a great '80s Cobol shop" to improve its development processes.
Treat did acknowledge that the move to the FileNet suite and the agile programming method produced technical and cultural challenges for state workers.