When building a model to represent business processes, the following essential features of them should be taken into consideration:
A business process may stretch over a long period of time, some processes may take years to complete.
A business process often requires human participation.
Several people may participate in the same process. Some are engaged simultaneously, others will be working on the process at different times.
The same person normally participate in many business processes simultaneously.
A comprehensive business process model, especially an object-oriented one, should be able to answer the following questions:
What is a process (in the model, e.g., an object, a set of objects, etc.) ?
What is an objective (aim, goal) of the process?
In what state is the process now?
How long is it to the goal?
What was done in the frame of the process in the past? Who did what?
What is planned for the process in the future? Who will do what?
Etc.
What is the role of human beings in the process ?
Execution of activities/tasks?
Decision making?
Planning?
Etc.
How to distribute limited resources (human and non-human) between different processes, and different activities/tasks in the frame of the same process?
What is personal calendar?
What is resource booking?
Etc.
Etc.
Analyzing the submitted papers, we discovered that not all the topics listed above got equal attention. Therefore we decided to break our workshop into two sections:
Submitted Presentations – Morning session
Brain Storming – Afternoon session
We suggest everybody to keep their presentations as short as possible leaving the rest to the brainstorming discussions around the topics listed above. We, as organizes, decided to abstain from giving our own presentations to leave more time for discussions.
Attention: the list is open, everybody is invited to put new questions instead of etc.