| Creators: |
Hallerbach, Alena and Bauer, Thomas and Reichert, Manfred |
| Title: |
Managing Process Variants in the Process Life Cycle |
| Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item |
| Event Title: |
(Proceedings of the) 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) ; Vol. 2 |
| Event Location: |
Barcelona, Spain |
| Event Dates: |
June 12-16, 2008 |
| Page Range: |
pp. 154-161 |
| Date: |
June 2008 |
| Divisions: |
Informationsmanagement |
| Abstract (ENG): |
When designing process-aware information systems, often variants of the same process have to be specified. Each variant then constitutes an adjustment of a particular process to specific requirements building the process context. Current Business Process Management (BPM) tools do not adequately support the management of process variants. Usually, the variants have to be kept in separate process models. This leads to huge modeling and maintenance efforts. In particular, more fundamental process changes (e.g., changes of legal regulations) often require the adjustment of all process variants derived from the same process; i.e., the variants have to be adapted separately to meet the new requirements. This redundancy in modeling and adapting process variants is both time consuming and error-prone. This paper presents the Provop approach, which provides a more flexible solution for managing process variants in the process life cycle. In particular, process variants can be configured out of a basic process following an operational approach; i.e., a specific variant is derived from the basic process by applying a set of well-defined change operations to it. Provop provides full process life cycle support and allows for flexible process configuration resulting in a maintainable collection of process variants. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
German |
| Link eMedia: |
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| Citation: |
Hallerbach, Alena and Bauer, Thomas and Reichert, Manfred
(2008)
Managing Process Variants in the Process Life Cycle.
In: (Proceedings of the) 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) ; Vol. 2, June 12-16, 2008, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 154-161.
ISBN 9789898111388
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