Managing Process Model Complexity Via Abstract Syntax Modifications

Rosa, Marcello La; Wohed, Petia; Mendling, Jan; Hofstede, Arthur H. M. ter; Reijers, Hajo A.; Aalst, Wil M. P. van der

doi:10.1109/tii.2011.2166795

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“…Fortunately, several guidelines have been researched (Mendling et al, 2010;La Rosa et al, 2011a;La Rosa et al, 2011b;Becker et al, 2000) that can help organizations to use process modeling in simple, understandable ways to create shared meaning -through reduction of complexity (Recker, 2013), coloring , labeling (Mendling et al, 2010), modularization and other mechanisms.…”

Section: Principle Of Joint Understandingmentioning

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Ten principles of good business process management

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Recker

Trkman

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Business Process Mgmt Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to foster a common understanding of business process management (BPM) by proposing a set of ten principles that characterize BPM as a research domain and guide its successful use in organizational practice.Design/methodology/approach -The identification and discussion of the principles reflects our viewpoint, which was informed by extant literature and focus groups, including 20 BPM experts from academia and practice.Findings -We identify ten principles which represent a set of capabilities essential for mastering contemporary and future challenges in BPM. Their antonyms signify potential roadblocks and bad practices in BPM. We also identify a set of open research questions that can guide future BPM research.Research limitation/implication -Our findings suggest several areas of research regarding each of the identified principles of good BPM. Also, the principles themselves should be systematically and empirically examined in future studies.Practical implications -Our findings allow practitioners to comprehensively scope their BPM initiatives and provide a general guidance for BPM implementation. Moreover, the principles may also serve to tackle contemporary issues in other management areas.Originality/value -This is the first paper that distills principles of BPM in the sense of both good and bad practice recommendations. The value of the principles lies in providing normative advice to practitioners as well as in identifying open research areas for academia, thereby extending the reach and richness of BPM beyond its traditional frontiers.

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Section: Principle Of Joint Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ten principles of good business process management

Schmiedel

Recker

Trkman

et al. 2014

Business Process Mgmt Journal

182

229

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“…In the following, we summarize work on refactoring the structure of a process model and its activity labels. Frameworks for categorizing refactorings have been proposed in [49,19,51].…”

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Managing Structural and Textual Quality of Business Process Models

Mendling

2013

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Business process models are increasingly used for capturing business operations of companies. Such models play an important role in the requirements elicitation phase of to-be-created information systems and in as-is analysis of business efficiency. Many process modeling initiatives have grown considerably big in size involving dozens of modelers with varying expertise creating and maintaining hundreds, sometimes thousands of models. One of the roadblocks towards a more effective usage of these process models is the often insufficient provision of quality assurance. The aim of this paper is to give an overview on how empirical research informs structural and textual quality assurance of process models. We present selected findings and show how they can be utilized as a foundation for novel automatic analysis techniques.

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“…In turn, reading a data element is expressed through an edge pointing from this data element to the activity. We presume that process models are well-structured [13,14], i.e., sequences, branchings (of different semantics), and loops are specified as blocks with welldefined start and end nodes having the same gateway type. These blocks, also known as SESE (single-entry-single-exit) blocks, may be nested, but are not allowed to overlap (cf.…”

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Creating and Updating Personalized and Verbalized Business Process Descriptions

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Leopold

Mendling

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Abstract. The increasing adoption of process-aware information systems (PAISs) has resulted in large process model collections. To support users having different perspectives on complex processes and related data, a PAIS should enable personalized process views, i.e., user-specific abstractions of process models. Despite the abstraction achieved through views of the graphical process models, many end users still struggle with understanding these graphical models and their details. For selected user groups, therefore, a PAIS should provide verbalized process descriptions describing their role in the process. Existing PAISs neither provide mechanisms for managing process views nor verbalized process descriptions. While process views have been used as visual abstractions for large process models, so far no work exists on how to provide both personalized and verbalized process descriptions based on respective views. This paper presents an approach for creating such personalized and verbalized process descriptions based on process views. Furthermore, textual changes of a personalized and verbalized process description are correctly mapped to corresponding updates of the underlying process model. In this context, all other views and process descriptions related to this process model are migrated to the new version of the process model as well. Overall, our approach enables end users to understand and evolve large process models based on personalized and verbalized process descriptions.

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Managing Process Model Complexity Via Abstract Syntax Modifications

Cited by 93 publications

References 86 publications

Ten principles of good business process management

Ten principles of good business process management

Managing Structural and Textual Quality of Business Process Models

Creating and Updating Personalized and Verbalized Business Process Descriptions

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