Comments on: Choose Your Process Discovery Method: Model or Measure http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/05/26/choose-your-process-discovery-method-model-or-measure/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:21:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Tapping into Better Practices by Watching Knowledge Workers http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/05/26/choose-your-process-discovery-method-model-or-measure/comment-page-1/#comment-4388 Tapping into Better Practices by Watching Knowledge Workers Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:40:57 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/05/26/choose-your-process-discovery-method-model-or-measure/#comment-4388 [...] http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/05/26/choose-your-process-discovery-method-model-or-measure/ [...] [...] http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/05/26/choose-your-process-discovery-method-model-or-measure/ [...]

]]> By: Jacob Ukelson http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/05/26/choose-your-process-discovery-method-model-or-measure/comment-page-1/#comment-1486 Jacob Ukelson Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:38:02 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/05/26/choose-your-process-discovery-method-model-or-measure/#comment-1486 Jim, Another way to start understanding existing processes is to look at existing unstructured processes in the organization. The problem is that most of these are done via email and documents in an ad-hoc fashion - making automated discovery very difficult, if not impossible. One way to move forward is to put a simple amount of structure around those existing unstructured, ad-hoc,human processes that woudl allow for automated discovery -but still let people work as before. If anyone is interested, I have written some posts about this in the past in our blog: http://blog.actionbase.com/in-situ-process-discovery and http://blog.actionbase.com/actionbases-third-way-using-an-hpm-to-easily-turn-an-organizations-practical-intelligence-to-explicit-knowledge Jim,
Another way to start understanding existing processes is to look at existing unstructured processes in the organization. The problem is that most of these are done via email and documents in an ad-hoc fashion – making automated discovery very difficult, if not impossible.
One way to move forward is to put a simple amount of structure around those existing unstructured, ad-hoc,human processes that woudl allow for automated discovery -but still let people work as before.
If anyone is interested, I have written some posts about this in the past in our blog:
http://blog.actionbase.com/in-situ-process-discovery
and
http://blog.actionbase.com/actionbases-third-way-using-an-hpm-to-easily-turn-an-organizations-practical-intelligence-to-explicit-knowledge

]]> By: Robert Shapiro http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/05/26/choose-your-process-discovery-method-model-or-measure/comment-page-1/#comment-1473 Robert Shapiro Wed, 27 May 2009 18:30:54 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/05/26/choose-your-process-discovery-method-model-or-measure/#comment-1473 In respect to process modeling I suggest that anyone who plans to do it should check out the new Book by Bruce Silver: BPMN Method and Style, www.bpmnstyle.com. Bruce has a very different take on explaining BPMN based on teaching thousands and thinking hard about how to be clear and concise in modeling business processes. For analytics and process discovery take a look at the work being done at Einhoven University on the ProM framework, an open source project with a lot of tools in support of process discovery and analysis. In respect to process modeling I suggest that anyone who plans to do it should check out the new Book by Bruce Silver: BPMN Method and Style, http://www.bpmnstyle.com. Bruce has a very different take on explaining BPMN based on teaching thousands and thinking hard about how to be clear and concise in modeling business processes.

For analytics and process discovery take a look at the work being done at Einhoven University on the ProM framework, an open source project with a lot of tools in support of process discovery and analysis.

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