Business Process Management and Flexibility

This is to inform you that today class December 14th, 2017, is the last class before Christmas. Lessons of January 9th and 11th 2018, are confirmed.
This is to inform you that today class December 5th, 2017, will be suspended. Lesson of December 7th, 2017, is confirmed.
This is to inform you that the lessons of November 2nd, 2017, will be suspended. Lesson of November 7th, 2017, is confirmed.
This is to inform you that the lessons of October 12th, 2017, will be suspended. Lesson of October 17th, 2017, is confirmed.
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Lessons Start: 3 October, see you in class!!!

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The course presents essential notions behind Business Process Management focusing on the different phases of business process life-cycle.
The course introduces relevant principles for process modelling using the BPMN language, and it focuses on techniques for process analysis (i.e. formal verification).
The course presents the importance of modelling techniques in enabling process flexibility (i.e. process configuration, exception handling, ad-hoc process changes).
The course focus on the so-called “process-aware” information systems to better understand the impact of business process modelling both in static and dynamic environment i.e., instead of constructing/code these systems by scratch they are assembled, configured or generated using a model-driven approaches.

Understand the importance of Business Process and Business Process Management
Gain some familiarity with business process terminology
Be able to model business processes in static and dynamic environment and to apply the most common techniques for Business Process analysis
Be familiar with process execution and process-aware information systems

Introduction to Business Process Management

Business Process Modelling

Business Process Analysis

Process-Aware Information Systems

Slides are available in the following:

Modelling Environment - APROMORE @UniCam * http://apromore.unicam.it/

WoPeD (Workflow Petri Net Designer) * http://woped.dhbw-karlsruhe.de/woped/

Modelling and Verification (exercise)

Using the s3 tool the students should model at least 10 collaboration including the following elements (start, end, task, subprocess, exclusive g., parallel g., inclusive g., pool, and messages. Resulting models should be first manually checked according to safeness and soundness and than via the tool. Results should be stored in the Excels file, one sheet per students and the .bpmn file should be included in the shared folder.
Tool - http://pros.unicam.it:8080/S3/modeler/
Shared Excels - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CbNGbP-WeF0_Nl2_By9J6cV6TxnD_lUMxCZ7l8UrpfM/edit#gid=0
Shared Folder - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1x26HSEQwqB1dmzr6BELs7U_pCM0ScLnR

Reference Textbooks

Business Process Management. Concepts, Languages, Architectures. Weske, Mathias 2007, XIV, 368 p. 265 illus.. ISBN: 9780321155559.
- Chapter 1 – Introduction
- Chapter 4 – Process Orchestrations (4.1 Control Flow Patterns - 4.2 Petri Nets - 4.7 Business Process Modeling Notation)
- Chapter 5 - Process Choreographies
Dumas, Marlon, et al. Fundamentals of business process management. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.
- Capitolo 1 - Introduction to Business Process Management
- Capitolo 3 - Essential Process Modeling
- Capitolo 4 - Advanced Process Modeling.
Reichert, Manfred, and Barbara Weber. Enabling flexibility in process-aware information systems: challenges, methods, technologies. Springer, 2012.
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 4 Process Modeling and Flexibility-byDesign
- Chapter 5 - Process Configuration Support
- Chapter 10 - Business Process Compliance

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