IT and Business Process Modelling
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Abstract
The students will learn techniques for identifying and modelling flexible and efficient business processes and workflows.
Description
Digitalization of business processes and workflows supported by so-called BPM and process-aware information systems is being pushed forward both in public and private businesses as a means to improve both efficiency and quality of services offered to citizens and customers.
This course will introduce the discipline of identifying, modeling, analyzing, improving, automating and monitoring business processes and workflows.
The course will cover:
- Understanding Business Processes and their context
- Process discovery, identification and elicitation
- Basic Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)
- Conducting Process Analysis
- Success Factors of Business Process Management Maturity
After the course, the student should be able to:
- Identify and elicit information about business processes
- Apply IT and business process modelling techniques to create models that are formally correct and meet the purpose of modelling in specific situations
- Reflect on the implications of specific IT and business process modelling choices in specific situations.
Formal prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites, but basic algebra and some knowledge of basic mathematical equations and logic will be necessary.
Intended learning outcomes
After the course, the student should be able to:
- Identify and elicit information about business processes
- Apply IT and business process modelling techniques to create models that are formally correct and meet the purpose of modelling in specific situations
- Reflect on the implications of specific IT and business process modelling choices in specific situations.
Learning activities
The course will take a hands-on approach to preparing and engaging students in the following learning activities:
- Process identification
- Process elicitation and data collection
- Process analysis
Course literature
Dumas, M., La Rosa, M., Mendling, J., & Reijers, H. A. (2018). Fundamentals of business process management (Second edition). Heidelberg: Springer.
More literature will be made available on LearnIT.
Student Activity Budget
Estimated distribution of learning activities for the typical student- Preparation for lectures and exercises: 25%
- Lectures: 15%
- Exercises: 15%
- Project work, supervision included: 40%
- Exam with preparation: 5%
Ordinary exam
Exam type:D: Submission of written work with following oral, External (7-point scale)
Exam variation:
D2G: Submission for groups with following oral exam supplemented by the submission. Shared responsibility for the report.
Group report.
The report is expected to be 10-15 pages
At the oral exam the group first gives a 10 minutes presentation of the report. After this, each student is examined individually for 10 minutes where the student gets questions to the project, the programme specific intended learning outcomes and the curriculum in general
Group
- Group size: 3-6
20 minutes
Mixed exam 2 : Joint student presentation followed by an individual dialogue. The group makes their presentations together and afterwards the students participate in the dialogue individually while the rest of the group is outside the room.