Business process lines and decision tables driving flexibility by selection

  • Authors:
  • Nicola Boffoli;Danilo Caivano;Daniela Castelluccia;Giuseppe Visaggio

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy;Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy;Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy;Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

  • Venue:
  • SC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Software Composition
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A major challenge faced by organizations is to better capture business strategies into products and services at an ever-increasing pace as the business environment constantly evolves. We propose a novel methodology base on a Business Process Line (BPL) engineering approach to inject flexibility into process modeling phase and promote reuse and flexibility by selection. Moreover we suggest a decision-table (DT) formalism for eliciting, tracking and managing the relationships among business needs, environmental changes and process tasks. In a real case study we practiced the proposed methodology by leveraging the synergy of feature models, variability mechanisms and decision tables. The application of DT-based BPL engineering approach proves that the Business Process Line benefits from fundamental concepts like composition, reusability and adaptability and satisfies the requirements for process definition flexibility.