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Lifecycle Management of Business Process Variants

In: Handbook on Business Process Management 1

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  • Manfred Reichert

    (University of Ulm)

  • Alena Hallerbach
  • Thomas Bauer

    (Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences)

Abstract

This chapter deals with advanced concepts for the configuration and management of business process variants. Typically, for a particular business process, different variants exist. Each of them constitutes an adjustment of a master process (e.g., a reference process) to specific requirements building the process context. Contemporary Business Process Management tools do not adequately support the modeling and management of such process variants. Either the variants have to be specified in separate process models or they are expressed in terms of conditional branches within the same process model. Both methods can result in high model redundancies, which make model adaptations a time-consuming and error-prone task. In this chapter, we discuss advanced concepts of our Provop approach, which provides a flexible and powerful solution for managing business process variants along their lifecycle. Such variant support will foster more systematic process configuration as well as process maintenance.

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  • Manfred Reichert & Alena Hallerbach & Thomas Bauer, 2015. "Lifecycle Management of Business Process Variants," International Handbooks on Information Systems, in: Jan vom Brocke & Michael Rosemann (ed.), Handbook on Business Process Management 1, edition 2, pages 251-278, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ihichp:978-3-642-45100-3_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45100-3_11
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    1. Ulrich Matthias König & Alexander Linhart & Maximilian Röglinger, 2019. "Why do business processes deviate? Results from a Delphi study," Business Research, Springer;German Academic Association for Business Research, vol. 12(2), pages 425-453, December.
    2. Patrick Afflerbach & Manuel Bolsinger & Maximilian Röglinger, 2016. "An economic decision model for determining the appropriate level of business process standardization," Business Research, Springer;German Academic Association for Business Research, vol. 9(2), pages 335-375, August.

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