A Box Analogy Technique (BoAT) for Agile-based Modelling of Business Processes

Silva, Carlos Eduardo da; Medeiros, Leisia; Justino, Yan; Gomes, Eduardo Luiz

doi:10.1109/re54965.2022.00029

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“…Da Silva et al (2022) presents an experience report on an agile-based approach to extract business process models as part of the requirements elicitation phase, the reverse of our approach in this study. The authors state that their approach can provide a complement for requirements gathering based on agile practices for process modelling combined with a cognitive-visual analogy focused on business view.…”

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Business Process Modeling Supporting the Requirements Elicitation of an Audit System

Canedo

Bandeira

Gonçalves

et al. 2023

International Journal of Electronic Government Research

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Requirements elicitation is a highly relevant part of the software development process. Due to the several techniques that exist to perform it, it is necessary to understand the complexity of this activity for it to be well performed, thus ensuring the quality of the final product. In addition, it is also worth emphasizing that the existence of well-defined processes is essential for the stakeholders' needs to be correctly identified in the initial stages of the software development process. This paper presents an experience report of the requirements elicitation and business process modeling teams. The teams used the best practices and reference frameworks to understand, model, and perform business process enhancements to the Brazilian Unified Health System General Audit Office (AUDSUS) audit system by using the business process model and notation (BPMN). Thus, all software requirements were specified based on the modeled business processes, providing a faster software development process and a more efficient information flow between stakeholders and the teams involved.

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Section: Oliveira Et Al (2013) Presented the Requirements Elicitation...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Business Process Modeling Supporting the Requirements Elicitation of an Audit System

Canedo

Bandeira

Gonçalves

et al. 2023

International Journal of Electronic Government Research

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“…The usefulness of an intermediate, visible and tangible model that is informal enough to be understood without time-consuming training but expressive and clear enough to be later transformed into a formal model has been shown in several studies (Da Silva et al, 2022;Fleischmann, 2015;Kirchner and Ne skovi c, 2012;Luebbe and Weske, 2012;Stirna et al, 2007). In particular, Grosskopf et al (2010) reported that in structured interviews, they received little response to their last question: What else?…”

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Patterns for modeling process variability in a healthcare context

Kirchner,

Laue,

Edwards

et al. 2023

BPMJ

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PurposeMedical diagnosis and treatment processes exhibit a high degree of variability, as during the process execution, healthcare professionals can decide on additional steps, change the execution order or skip a task. Process models can help to document and to discuss such processes. However, depicting variability in graphical process models using standardized languages, such as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), can lead to large and complicated diagrams that medical staff who do not have formal training in modeling languages have difficulty understanding. This study proposes a pattern-based process visualization that medical doctors can understand without extensive training. The process descriptions using this pattern-based visualization can later be transformed into formal business process models in languages such as BPMN.Design/methodology/approachThe authors derived patterns for expressing variability in healthcare processes from the literature and medical guidelines. Then, the authors evaluated and revised these patterns based on interviews with physicians in a Danish hospital.FindingsA set of business process variability patterns was proposed to express situations with variability in hospital treatment and diagnosis processes. The interviewed medical doctors could translate the patterns into their daily work practice, and the patterns were used to model a hospital process.Practical implicationsWhen communicating with medical personnel, the patterns can be used as building blocks for documenting and discussing variable processes.Originality/valueThe patterns can reduce complexity in process visualization. This study provides the first validation of these patterns in a hospital.

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BPM2DDD: A Systematic Process for Identifying Domains from Business Processes Models

Silva

Gomes²,

Basu

2022

Software

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Domain-driven design is one of the most used approaches for identifying microservice architectures, which should be built around business capabilities. There are a number of documentation with principles and patterns for its application. However, despite its increasing use there is still a lack of systematic approaches for creating the context maps that will be used to design the microservices. This article presents BPM2DDD, a systematic approach for identification of bounded contexts and their relationships based on the analysis of business processes models, which provide a business view of an organisation. We present an example of its application in a real business process, which has also be used to perform a comparative application with external analysts. The technique has been applied to a real project in the department of transport of a Brazilian state capital, and has been incorporated into the software development process employed by them to develop their new system.

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A Box Analogy Technique (BoAT) for Agile-based Modelling of Business Processes

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Business Process Modeling Supporting the Requirements Elicitation of an Audit System

Business Process Modeling Supporting the Requirements Elicitation of an Audit System

Patterns for modeling process variability in a healthcare context

BPM2DDD: A Systematic Process for Identifying Domains from Business Processes Models

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