Process Discovery(ch5) - Answer -the act of gathering information about an existing process and
organizing it in terms of an "as-is" process model
Process Discovery - Answer -1. Defining the setting: assembling a team in a company that will be
responsible for working on the process.
2. Gathering information: building an understanding of the process (we'll discuss different discovery
methods to acquire information on a process.)
3. Conducting the modeling task: mapping out the process in a systematic way.
4. Assuring process model quality: make sure that the resulting process models meet different quality
criteria.
Parties Involved - Answer -Domain Expert
Process Analyst
Challenges - Answer -1. Fragmented Process Knowledge
2. Domain Experts think on Instance Level
3. Knowledge of process modeling is rare
Process Discovery Techniques - Answer -1.Evidence-based
,Document analysis*
Observation
Process mining
2.Interview-based*
3.Workshop-based
Document Analysis - Answer -Documents point to existing roles, activities and business objects
EX:
Formal documentation in terms of
Website
Organizational chart
Internal policies
Glossaries and handbooks
Etc.
Observation - Answer -Observe what people do at their workplace
Trace business objects in the course of their life cycle
Inspect the work environment
Process Mining - Answer -A.k.a. "automatic process discovery"
Make use of event logs, or data captured by various information systems
Interviews - Answer -Semi-structured format
May need to involve many domain experts if process knowledge is fragmented (it usually is!)
Workshops - Answer -Gather all key stakeholders together
One process analyst, multiple domain experts
Participants interact to create shared understanding
, Often: software-supported, a model is directly created during the workshop (separate role)
Model is reference point for discussions
Organizing the Gathered Material - Answer -1. Identify the process boundaries
2. Identify activities and events
3. Identify resources and their handovers
4. Identify the control flow
5. Identify additional elements.
Process Boundaries - Answer -How do you name the process of interest?
Under which condition does the process start?
With which result, or results, does it end?
Quality Assurance - Answer -1.Syntactic Quality
2.Semantic Quality
3.Pragmatic Quality
Syntactic Quality: Verification - Answer -Need to make sure that the content of the model complies with
the syntax, as defined by the process modeling language in use
Semantic Quality: Validation - Answer -Need to compare your model with the real-world business
process
Check for correctness and completeness
Pragmatic Quality: Certification/Graphical Layout - Answer -The goal is create a process model of good
usability, which includes several aspects:
Understandability
Maintainability
Size
Structural complexity
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