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Authors:
Justus Holler
Keywords: Business Process Modeling Tool; Versioning; Comments; Awareness; Modeling Efficiency.
Abstract:
Business process modeling interpreted as a collaborative act requires resource intense communication and coordination between domain and modeling experts. Therefore, modern web-based business process modeling tools need to provide a shared workspace. Tool users can check and validate the progress of the business process modeling project and coordinate their work. This paper proposes a concept for workspace awareness, which combines version management with a commenting functionality in order to increase the groups modeling efficiency. The process model versions in the workspace from draft to final are documented with the help of a history-in-parent approach. Comments for each model version and comments within the models allow the tool users to collaborate asynchronously, which decreases the need for several workshop and interview iterations for process recording and refinement.
Pages: 9 to 16
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015
Publication date: February 22, 2015
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4375
ISBN: 978-1-61208-386-5
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015