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Assessing Business Process Modeling Languages Using a Generic Quality Framework

Assessing Business Process Modeling Languages Using a Generic Quality Framework. Anna Gunhild Nysetvold* John Krogstie *, § IDI, NTNU * and SINTEF § Norway. Overview of presentation. Quality of models and modeling languages Objectives of business process models

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Assessing Business Process Modeling Languages Using a Generic Quality Framework

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  1. Assessing Business Process Modeling Languages Using a Generic Quality Framework Anna Gunhild Nysetvold* John Krogstie *,§ IDI, NTNU * and SINTEF§ Norway

  2. Overview of presentation • Quality of models and modeling languages • Objectives of business process models • Description of case - Vital • Evaluation results • Concluding remarks

  3. Framework for quality of models

  4. Quality of modeling languages

  5. Different objectives of business process modeling • Human-sense making and communication • Computer-assisted analysis/simulation • Business Process Management • Gives the context for a traditional system development project • Model deployment and activation : • Through people guided by process 'maps', • Automatically, as in most workflow engines. • Interactively, where the computer and the users co-operate

  6. Description of case-study environment • Vital: One of Norway’s largest insurance companies • Large number of life insurance and pension insurance customers • Going from a functionally oriented architecture to a process/service oriented architecture • Need to support complete business processes in the architecture • Main usage area of process models: Context for system development (but human sense-making and communication is also important)

  7. Approach to evaluation • Identified main criteria based on Vital experiences and the quality framework • approx. 70 requirements derived from the general framework, evaluated according to relevance to Vital • 32 requirements found sufficiently relevant to use in the evaluation • Identify short-list of languages to evaluate • Evaluate languages based on identified criteria • Analytically • Empirically (based on modeling of cases using the same independent modeling tool (METIS)) • Getting feedback from Vital on evaluations as we went along • Evaluations on a 0-3 scale on each criteria

  8. Short-list of languages • BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notations) • UML Activity diagrams • EEML (Extended Enterprise Modeling Language)

  9. BPMN - BPD

  10. UML Activity diagrams

  11. EEML

  12. Overall results

  13. Concluding remarks • The framework found useful after specializing it to specific goals of the organization • Overly simplistic valuation ? • Weighting of importance (base more on metrics for e.g. complexity) • Weighting between expressiveness, learnability, comprehension, technical and organizational appropriateness • On later uses • use several valuation schemes in parallel • Also include evaluation of the meta-model and notation guides as models • Useful to first focus on the language, but language quality is only a mean to achieve model quality. Through including organizational appropriateness, tool-support and appropriate techniques to support the development of high-quality models on all levels is partly included also at this level

  14. Assessing Business Process Modeling Languages Using a Generic Quality Framework Anna Gunhild Nysetvold* John Krogstie *,§ IDI, NTNU * and SINTEF§ Norway

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