View Manual: Business Process Model

To inform stakeholders regarding the workflow (and information flow) that is needed to produce a product or render a service.

A model that defines the business processes of the enterprise, in the form of events, activities, rules and responsibilities.

Guidelines for the modelling requirements

• Name and Description must be completed for all classes shown
• If no additional slots are indicated, then just name and description are required
• Mandatory slots are shown in red, these are required for the view to work
• Mandatory slots with an option, i.e. Individual Role OR Group Role, are shown in green, these are required for the view to work
• Optional slots are shown in black. The report will work without these but there may be some blank fields.
• The "classified as" slot is automatically completed except where noted

Top Level

Navigation	Essential Class	Additional Slots
Business/Logical	Product Type	Produced by Business Process (See Note 2)
Business/Logical	Business Process	Business Process Performed by Business Roles
		Defining Business Process Flow
Business Logical	Business Role Individual OR Group
Business/Logical	Business Process Flow (See Note 1)	Start
		End
		Process/Activity
		Initiating Event
		Raised Event
Business/Logical	Business Event Time Based or External

Note 1:

• If the Business Process Flow has already been defined simply link it.
• If not create one by:-
  • Dragging the relevant boxes onto the diagram – Start, process(s), Activity(ies), Initiating Events(s), Raised Event(s) and End.
  • Double click to add the Business Process/Task and Initiating/Raised Event details (don’t forget to give them a display name).
  • Add the dependencies by clicking and dragging from one object to another. This creates the ‘occurs before’ relationship.
  • You can double click on each arrow and complete the ‘Process Information Passed’ field, if required.

Note 2

• The initial screen will provide a table detailing the Product Types (Business Services) with a description and the Business Processes that produce the Product Types. Further details of the process can be accessed by clicking on the relevant process.
• If the Business Process is not linked to a Product Type (Business Service) it will not appear in the list.