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Enterprise Business Process Modeling

News

  • October 1st, 2020: Lessons will start!!! Enjoying … :)

General Information

Lecture:

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Lessons Scheduling (Tentative):

  • 42 h - lecture and exercise sessions
  • Monday: 11:00 am– 13:00 am
  • Thursday: 11:00 am – 13:00 am

To book an appointment:

  • Please send and e-mail.

Course Objective

This course focuses on modelling activity that allows abstracting and reasoning on how an enterprise is organized and how the work is structured within complex organizations. In particular, business process models represent blueprints that can serve different purposes for a variety of stakeholder. For example, business analysts can use these models to better understand how the organization works; employees playing a role in the process can use them to learn the tasks that they are supposed to perform; software analysts/developers can refer to the models to understand the system-as-is before designing the system-to-be.

Given the variety of stakeholders that need to interpret these models, and considering the pivotal function that models play within organizations, models quality becomes fundamental.

Learning Outcome

  • The students will gain some familiarity with enterprise and business process terminology, with different frameworks, models and languages for the representation of enterprise and business processes.
  • The students will be able to model business processes in static and dynamic environment and to apply the most common techniques for Business Process analysis
  • The students will also be familiar with some process modelling tools

Syllabus

Introduction to Business Process Management

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

Process Identification

  • Definition of the process architecture
  • Process Selection

Business Process Modelling

  • Conceptual models and abstraction mechanisms.
  • Business Process Modelling Notation 2.0 (collaboration and choreography diagram).
  • From basic elements to advance the management of multi-instance and data.

Introduction to Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Modelling.

  • Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: Alter, Zachman.
  • Modelling Enterprise Architecture with ArchiMate.

Study Material

Video Recording

Course Slides

Reference Textbooks

  • Dumas M, La Rosa M, Mendling J., Reijers H: Fundamentals of Business Process Management, Springer 2018. (From chapter 1 to 5)

Reference Textbooks

Study Materials (previous accademic year)

  • BPMN pdf
    • BPMN Manifesto - pdf
    • Modelling Exercise - Description
    • Subprocess Modelling Exercise - Description
    • OMG BPMN Specification - Link
    • OMG BPMN by Example - link
    • Exercise on Modelling - doc
    • What is wrong? Pdf
    • The interplay between data, instance and messages - pdf - MIDA TOOL doc
  • Choreography Modelling - pdf
    • From Choreography to Collaboration and viceversa - Reading pdf
    • Walking Through the Semantics of Exclusive and Event-Based Gateways in BPMN Choreographies Reading pdf

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

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

Assessment

Dates available at https://didattica.unicam.it/Home.do

Exams Rules:

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