Modelling the Co-Evolution of Business Processes and IT Systems

Process Support for Evolving Active Architectures

“…This can be particularly severe if the required evolution depends on the current state of the process being evolved. For example, ProcessWeb [PWeb01,WKR+99] has distinct reflective facilities for dealing with code and data [GBK+01]. For code the reflective facilities can provide a copy of the current source, edit this to produce new source, and apply this new code.…”

‘Teamwork’: A Combined Methodological and Technological Solution for E- Working Environments

“…A major success factor in the transformation from goal trees into TeamWork-based processes is to set the right priorities for the organisation (Warboys, B., Kawalek, P., Robertson, I., & Greenwood, M. (1999)). In real business cases, unlike the BESTREGIT research, it is often not possible to model all work scenarios, often due to time demands and limited resources.…”

“…Whilst the idea of a role based system is not new (Warboys, B., Kawalek, P., Robertson, I., & Greenwood, M. (1999)) it is readily apparent that more research is needed in order to understand the information processing dynamics associated with this approach. This is especially true for technologically mediated groups which operate in virtual settings, especially where those technologies are developed according to a combinatory role/scenario model.…”

Software Process Technology

“…Two-way translation is important when we consider the wider context of observing enactment state, perhaps to debug it, and reusing code and data within a PSS. We will illustrate our argument using details from the ProcessWeb [PWeb,War99a] system with which we are most familiar. We believe that ProcessWeb is a reasonable representative of the state of the art, and our argument does not depend on the specific details of how various facilities are provided in ProcessWeb.…”