Business Process Modeling and Implementation - A 3-Year Teaching Experience

Daniela Giordano, Francesco Maiorana

2013

Abstract

In this work we describe a three-year teaching experience in an Information Systems course for a Management Engineering Master degree, where the course's focus was on business process modeling and on the technical aspects related to process implementation in a commercial software suite. In particular, we underwent a modeling shift from a Petri Nets description of concurrent processes to a full, business-process oriented methodology as proposed by Sharp and Mc Dermott (Sharp and McDermott, 2001) (Sharp and McDermott, 2008). This latter methodology was extended with additional data models, such Entity Life History, dealing with entities life cycle and dynamics. The students engaged in modeling the business processes of a real Small Medium Enterprise operating in the local area. The model was implemented using Microsoft Share Point, which affords a tight integration with databases such as Access or Microsoft SQL Server. A comparison of the adopted modeling strategies is presented, as well as common student errors in the design and implementation phase, together with some lessons learnt.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Giordano D. and Maiorana F. (2013). Business Process Modeling and Implementation - A 3-Year Teaching Experience . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2, pages 429-436. DOI: 10.5220/0004387604290436

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu13,
author={Daniela Giordano and Francesco Maiorana},
title={Business Process Modeling and Implementation - A 3-Year Teaching Experience},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2013},
pages={429-436},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004387604290436},
isbn={978-989-8565-53-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Business Process Modeling and Implementation - A 3-Year Teaching Experience
SN - 978-989-8565-53-2
AU - Giordano D.
AU - Maiorana F.
PY - 2013
SP - 429
EP - 436
DO - 10.5220/0004387604290436