Business Process Management and Flexibility

Lecture:

• Barbara Re

Lessons Scheduling:

• 42 h - lecture and exercise sessions
• Tuesday: 14:00 pm – 16:00 pm
• Thursday: 09:00 am – 11:00 am

To book an appointment:

• Please send and e-mail.

• 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

• Process Everywhere
• Business Process Model and Instances
• Business Process Life-Cycle
• Classification of Business Process

Business Process Modelling

• Conceptual models and abstraction mechanisms
• Control Flow Patterns
• Business Process Modelling Notation 2.0
• Modelling Understandability Guidelines

Business Process Analysis

• BPMN formalization(s)
• Safeness and Soundness
• Data Flow Correctness
• Process Compliance
• Verification into practice

Process-Aware Information Systems

• Perspectives on a Process-Aware Information System
• Pre-specified vs. Knowledge-Intensive Processes
• Variability, Looseness, Adaptation, Evolution
• Flexibility-by-Design

Slides are available in the following:

• Course Introduction - Slide
• Introduction BPM and BP definitions - Slide
• Business Process Patterns - Slide
• BPMN Modelling
  • Manifesto
  • Slide
  • Modelling Exercise - Description
  • Subprocess Modelling Exercise - Description
  • OMG BPMN Specification - Link
  • OMG BPMN by Example - link
  • Signavio tool (for registration use the following link, it is a dedicate space for UniCam students: Link)
• BPMN Modelling Guidelines - pdf
• BPMN Choreography Diagram - pdf
• Process Verification (Mapping) - pdf
• Process Verification (Compliance) - pdf
• Flexibility in Business Process
• Modelling BPFM
• Exam Simulation

Modelling Environment * https://ap.visual-paradigm.com/universita-di-camerino

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

S3 * http://pros.unicam.it:8080/S3/modeler/ * (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.
• Dumas, Marlon, et al. Fundamentals of business process management. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.
• Reichert, Manfred, and Barbara Weber. Enabling flexibility in process-aware information systems: challenges, methods, technologies. Springer, 2012.

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Dates A.A. 2016/2017 (see: https://didattica.unicam.it/Home.do)

Exams Rules:

• Writing Examination on the topics of the syllabus
• Open or multiple-choice questions + Exercise
• 2 h

Exam Results

• N/A