Business Process Modelling

Business Process Modelling

overall understanding of the concepts and technologies relevant in business process

management

improving organizational efficiency and quality

'mapping' and 'workflow'

quality management tool

Business Process Modelling

Business Process Modelling

Main subdomains:
modelling
functions,
processes, data,
organization,
and operation

Business processes
consist of activities
whose coordinated
execution realizes some
business goal. These
activities can be system
activities, user
interaction activities, or
manual activities.

Horizontal abstraction

traditional abstraction concept in computer science is the separation of modelling levels, from
instance level to model level to metamodel level

Models associated with notations, often of a

graphical nature

a set of similar entities at the instance level

instance level reflects the concrete entities that

are involved in business processes

Vertical Abstraction

In order to follow the divide-and-conquer approach, these subdomains need to be represented

separately

Process modelling
defines the glue
between the
subdomains

From Business Functions to Business Processes

To provide a more detailed view, these top-level business functions are broken down to functions of smaller
granularity and, ultimately, to activities of operational business processes

business function
functions
Activities

Activity Models and Activity Instances

Activities can be found in the leaves of the functional decomposition

Each activity instance during its lifetime is in different states. These states and the respective state transitions
can be represented by a state transition diagram

- the states of most activity instances in business processes, in real-world

settings, activity instances are likely to expose a more complex behaviour.