Abstract
The paper is a reflection on the nature of business processes and the way which their nature necessarily manifests itself in business process modeling methodologies and languages. Respecting the nature of business processes is an essential condition for the meaningfulness of a process model. The importance of this topic is also emphasized with the fact that not all methodologies nor languages respect the nature of business processes sufficiently. The paper briefly summarizes main facts about and principles of business process management and points out the main natural features of business processes which have to be necessarily respected in modeling methodologies and languages. Then their main resulting features are analyzed in mutual relationships by examples from MMABP methodology. In occasional contexts the paper also contains some critical reflection of current process modeling approaches and BPMN language.
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Technical Consequences of the Nature of Business Processes
The paper is a reflection on the nature of business processes and the way which their nature necessarily manifests itself in business process modeling methodologies and languages. Respecting the nature of business processes is an essential condition for the meaningfulness of a process model. The importance of this topic is also emphasized with the fact that not all methodologies nor languages respect the nature of business processes sufficiently. The paper briefly summarizes main facts about and principles of business process management and points out the main natural features of business processes which have to be necessarily respected in modeling methodologies and languages. Then their main resulting features are analyzed in mutual relationships by examples from MMABP methodology. In occasional contexts the paper also contains some critical reflection of current process modeling approaches and BPMN language.
Recommended Citation
Řepa, V. (2016). Technical Consequences of the Nature of Business Processes. In J. Gołuchowski, M. Pańkowska, C. Barry, M. Lang, H. Linger, & C. Schneider (Eds.), Information Systems Development: Complexity in Information Systems Development (ISD2016 Proceedings). Katowice, Poland: University of Economics in Katowice. ISBN: 978-83-7875-307-0. http://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2016/ISDMethodologies/10.