Theses in Process

Agility and Business Process Modeling - A Critical Review of Models, Methods and Applications

Type:
Bachelor Thesis Business Information Systems
    Status:
    in process
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    Abstract

    Agility and being agile is considered to be a core imperative for enterprises’ success. Being agile is considered to increasingly depend on enterprise’s ability to set up new business processes or to modify existing ones in a dynamic manner, and rapidly adapt its information systems to these process changes. Taking into account the characteristics of agile methods it seems reasonable to assume that agile principles might be useful in Business Process Modeling, too. Thus, the main aim of this thesis is to investigate the eligibility of agile principles and agile methods in the business process modeling field based on the critical analysis of the literature and analysis of available application scenarios. Among others, a question should be answered when the application of agile methods in business process modelling makes sense, as well as what are the resulting benefits and challenges. Also the available tool support should be considered.

    Literature:

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    • Meziani, R., Magalhaes, R. (2009) Proposals for an Agile Business Process Management Methodology. In: First International Workshop on Organizational Design and Engineering, Lisbon.
    • Erickson, John; Lyytinen, Kalle; Siau, Keng (2005). Agile Modeling, Agile Software Development, and Extreme Programming: The State of Research. Journal of Database Management; Hershey 16.4 (Oct-Dec 2005): 88-100.
    • Dumas, M., La Rosa, M., Mendling, J., Reijers, H.A. (2013) Fundamentals of Business Process Management. Springer, Heidelberg. (pp. I-XXVII)
    • Thiemich, C., Puhlmann, F. (2013) An agile BPM project methodology. In: Daniel, F., Wang, J., Weber, B. (eds.) BPM 2013. LNCS, vol. 8094, pp. 291-306. Springer, Heidelberg.
    • Weißbach, R., Kirchner, K., Reher, F., and Heinrich, R. (2017). Challenges in Business Processes Modeling - Is Agile BPM a Solution?. In: Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2016 International Workshops, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 19, 2016, Revised Papers, Springer International Publishing, pp. 57-167.