Presentation made jointly with Prof. Michael zur Muehlen at Architecture + Process in Washington, D.C., April 23rd 2008.

1. Business Process Modeling What is Possible vs What is Useful

4. Diagramming Modeling Model with a Purpose If your goal is: Aim to be: Informative Imparting knowledge, Instructing, Interpreting, Enlightening Descriptive Serving to describe or characterize by description, Supports interpretation Prescriptive Giving instructions, Being directive (Flexible guidance vs Strict enforcement) Visualizing Call for actions, Interaction & commitment, Customized view Structuring / Analyzing Structuring the process, Allocating resources, Estimating, Improving, Optimizing Enacting / Automating Monitoring commitment, Assessing progress, Controlling compliance Unique Semantic Uniform Interpretation

5. Model in Context Modeling in the small Modeling in the large Green Field Modeling Brown Field Modeling Integration Standardization Predefined Architecture Emerging Architecture Operational Strategy Scope Reuse Architecture

8. Workflow Patterns Control Resources Temporal Data Exceptions Process Model of the process Perspectives of the process

12. The Business Process Modeling Notation What is Possible vs What is Useful

14. What is possible Control Resources Temporal Data Exceptions Process - Subjective interpretation of the results presented at http://www.workflowpatterns.com/evaluations/standard/index.php And in -Gagné, D .and Trudel, A. ”The Temporal Perspective: Expressing Temporal Constraints and Dependencies in Process Models.” In 2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook. Very Strong Weak Strong Moderate Weak

15. Visualizing Call for actions, Interaction & commitment, Customized view What is useful If your goal is: Structuring / Analyzing Structuring the process, Estimating, Improving, Allocating resources, Optimizing Enacting / Automating Monitoring commitment, Assessing progress, Controlling compliance Is: Diagramming Modeling Excellent at Visualizing Real Good at structuring Good for analyzing depending or your needs Good for enacting depending on granularity Reasonable for automating