Workflow modeling : tools for process improvement and applications development

This extensively revised second edition of the acclaimed and bestselling book, Workflow Modeling, serves as a complete guide to discovering, scoping, assessing, modeling, and redesigning business processes. Providing proven techniques for identifying, modeling, and redesigning business processes, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Sharp, Alec
Other Authors McDermott, Patrick
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston : Artech House, ©2009.
Edition2nd ed.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781596931930
1596931930
9781523117727
1523117729
9781596931923
1596931922
Physical Description1 online resource (xx, 449 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Business processes--more important than ever
  • A brief history--how the enterprise came to be process oriented
  • Business processes--what are they, anyway?
  • The approach in a nutshell
  • Discover business processes
  • Establish process scope and contexts
  • Conduct initial as-is process assessment
  • Process workflow models: the essentials
  • Process workflow models--managing progressive detail
  • Process workflow models--the finer points
  • Develop as-is process workflow model
  • Conduct final as-is process
  • Determine to-be process characteristics and workflow
  • Business-oriented data modeling
  • Requirements modeling with use cases and services.