Article: Flexibility-based selection of paradigms and tools for BP modelling and execution Journal: International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM) 2024 Vol.11 No.3 pp.165 - 178 Abstract: The last decades have witnessed several changes at the level of the development and the adoption of several business process management approaches, methodologies, tools and paradigms. These latter support all stages of the business process management life-cycle. Due to the continuous, increasing and rapid changes in the context or environment in which organisations operate, flexibility of business processes ranks high on the list of priorities of organisations. Hence, organisations must be able to respond promptly and effectively to these changes and unexpected turbulence. This research presents a generic approach for guiding business process engineers to choose paradigms and tools, for modelling and executing their business process, in the sense of taking into account their flexibility requirements. A case study is conducted considering the well-known Scrum framework as a business process for which the approach is applied. Business processes are analysed in terms of flexibility needs, and then our approach guides process engineers on the modelling paradigm and tools they can use accordingly. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Flexibility-based selection of paradigms and tools for BP modelling and execution

Authors: Asma Mejri; Sonia Ayachi Ghannouchi; Ricardo Martinho

Addresses: RIADI Laboratory, Mannouba, Tunisia; Higher Institute of Computer Science and Communication Technologies of Hammam Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia ' High Institute on Management of Sousse, Tunisia; RIADI Laboratory, Mannouba, Tunisia ' INESCC-DL, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal

Abstract: The last decades have witnessed several changes at the level of the development and the adoption of several business process management approaches, methodologies, tools and paradigms. These latter support all stages of the business process management life-cycle. Due to the continuous, increasing and rapid changes in the context or environment in which organisations operate, flexibility of business processes ranks high on the list of priorities of organisations. Hence, organisations must be able to respond promptly and effectively to these changes and unexpected turbulence. This research presents a generic approach for guiding business process engineers to choose paradigms and tools, for modelling and executing their business process, in the sense of taking into account their flexibility requirements. A case study is conducted considering the well-known Scrum framework as a business process for which the approach is applied. Business processes are analysed in terms of flexibility needs, and then our approach guides process engineers on the modelling paradigm and tools they can use accordingly.

Keywords: flexibility; business process management; BPM; paradigms; business process management systems; BPMS; guidance; scrum framework.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2024.140140

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2024 Vol.11 No.3, pp.165 - 178

Received: 13 Jul 2020
Accepted: 29 Dec 2020
Published online: 25 Jul 2024 *

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