ColD SPA: a tool for collaborative process model development

Lee, J.D.; Hickey, Ann M.; Zhang, Dongsong; Santanen, Eric L.; Zhou, Lina

doi:10.1109/hicss.2000.926588

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“…BPM forms part of the field of business process management and is a major step in the business process life cycle. In order for BPM to be successful, it often needs to be undertaken in a collaborative environment in which all the required stakeholders are present [1,2,3]. This collaborative nature of BPM can pose several challenges.…”

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confidence: 99%

The usability of collaborative tools

Scholtz¹,

Calitz²,

Snyman³

2013

Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference

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Modelling the business processes of an organisation offers benefits such as improved communication, increased understanding of processes, support for change management and gaining of competitive advantage over other organisations. However, Business Process Modelling (BPM) in large projects often needs to be carried out collaboratively in a team environment. The benefits of collaborative modelling are a reduced workload for modellers and improved quality, readability and accuracy of models.The result is also increased understanding of the processes amongst team members. Traditional technologies and BPM tools have several usability problems and often do not allow for effective collaboration and integration of business process models.Touchscreens are becoming the standardised modality of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet PCs. This paper investigates the use of collaborative business process modelling (CBPM) software and hardware for improving the usability of CBPM projects. A field study comprised of two assignments was carried out to evaluate the difficulties of CBPM with traditional BPM tools running on desktop PCs. A BPM software prototype was then designed which allows the drawing of business process (BP) models using touch and also enables the synchronous display of the process model on multiple tablet PCs.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The usability of collaborative tools

Scholtz¹,

Calitz²,

Snyman³

2013

Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference

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“…Third, an Air Force base, depot, headquarters, and project managers located in five different states collaborated asynchronously using data and telephone exchanges to verify the process model created in the second study (Lee, Hickey, Zhang, Santanen, & Zhou, 2000). Researchers (Adkins, Reinig, Kruse, Nunamaker, & Mittleman, 1999;Lowry, Albrecht, Nunamaker, and Lee forthcoming) report on the develop of and use of a distributed groupwriting tool used with the U.S. Army to develop regulations and field manuals.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Researchers have engaged in a number of distributed collaboration field studies (Adkins, Shearer, Nunamaker, Simcox, 1997;Adkins, Shearer, Nunamaker, Simcox, & Romero, 1998;Lee, Hickey, Zhang, Santanen, & Zhou, 2000) with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army. In general, three types of field studies have been done.…”

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confidence: 98%

Information technology augmentation of the skilled facilitator approach

Adkins

Younger

Schwarz

2003

36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of The

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Work in the new millennium requires globally distributed organizational members to collaborate in groups and make decisions. In general, research has shown that groups that use facilitators and group support systems make high quality decisions in less time. The Skilled Facilitator approach is a values-based systemic methodology that helps facilitators and groups interact successfully. Today's facilitators are being asked to work with groups that range in size from ten to five thousand, meet twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, and are located around the globe. Clearly no facilitator could be available to the group for this period of time much less effective. This paper proposes an operational view of an information technology system based on current state of the art natural language processing technologies that will augment the Skilled Facilitator approach and a allow effective facilitation of large distributed meetings twenty-four hours a day seven days a week.

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“…ColD SPA -The Tool for Collaborative Process Model Development (Lee et al, 2000): ColD SPA provides a collaborative modelling support through a web browser. This tool does not enables collaborators to change models in real-time and simultaneously.…”

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Supporting collaborative modelling in UML class diagrams

Neto

Farias

Bischoff

et al. 2019

RBCA

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Background. Modeling architectural aspects of the system is an essential activity in software development. Inthis context, developers work in parallel, and collaborate to define application software models, such as classdiagrams. Problem. Although many software modeling tools have been proposed, there is a lack of distributed collaboration features. Solution. This study proposes C-SAMT, a web tool for collaborative modeling of UML class diagrams. Developers can benefit from using C-SAMT when performing modeling tasks, such as creating domain models in parallel, and collaboratively. Evaluation. We recruited 20 industry professionals to perform a qualitative evaluation of the tool through a questionnaire. Results. Majority of Industry professionals (85%, 17/20) reported that totally agree that the communication channel of the tool worked properly, they also (80%, 16/20) totally agreed the models generated collaboratively with C-SAMT had small numbers of conflicts, and they also (90%, 18/20) perceived improved productivity gains using the proposed tool. Conclusion. C-SAMT provided a collaborative environment, which were positively evaluated by developers, who reported that C-SAMT had a good communication channel between team members.

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ColD SPA: a tool for collaborative process model development

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

The usability of collaborative tools

The usability of collaborative tools

Information technology augmentation of the skilled facilitator approach

Supporting collaborative modelling in UML class diagrams

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