Workflow Modeling
Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
Published on 28. February 2001
Book
Hardback
202 pages
978-1-58053-021-7 (ISBN)
Description
Providing proven techniques for identifying, modelling and redesigning business processes, and explaining how to implement workflow improvement, this book aims to help define requirements for systems development or systems acquisition.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Norwood
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-58053-021-7 (9781580530217)
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Patrick McDermott | Alec Sharp
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Applications, Second Edition
Tools for Process Improvement and Applications
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06/2008
Artech House Publishers
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Content
Part 1 Process thinking: recent history and state of the art; where are we going - overview of the approach. Part 2 Getting started: just what are our processes anyway?; getting started on a project - framing the process; conducting the initial assessment; examples; introducing "process workflow modelling"; applying WPM - modelling the "as is" process; information gathering techniques; assessing the "as is " process. Part 3 Designing the new process: characterizing the "to be" process (conceptual process design); designing the "to be" process (detailed process design); designing interactions (use cases); specifying inputs, outputs, transactions. Part 4 Wrap up: the seven deadly sins of process modelling; related models and when to use them; the messy business of implementation - what's next for the process?; the messy business of self-improvement - what's next for you?