A collaborative mobile approach for business process elicitation

Baloian, Nelson; Zurita, Gustavo; Santoro, Flávia Maria; Araújo, Renata Mendes de; Wolfgan, Sean; Machado, D.G.; Pino, José A.

doi:10.1109/cscwd.2011.5960115

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“…Business processes elicitation is now considered a very useful tool not only for BPM adoption projects, but for any project aiming at improving business processes, redefining business strategies and requirements [13]. There are platforms using process models as the basis for the development of information systems to support business processes, such as Oracle or IBM BPM.…”

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Mobile Collaboration for Business Process Elicitation from an Agile Development Methodology Viewpoint

Baloian

Pino

Reveco

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2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on E-Business Engineering

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Business Process Modeling is an important activity in organizations that document processes currently being performed or it may represent a design of a new process that should be implemented. Process models are used to analyze processes in order to improve, implement or just register them in order to document the process for new staff which should learn how to perform them. As in software engineering, there are methodologies guiding the business process elicitation activity. Accordingly, there have been also works proposing agile and lightweight methodologies for carrying out this activity. In this paper we present a tool which was especially developed for supporting an agile business process elicitation. It is based on requirements which can be derived from the description of the agile methodologies described in the literature. Two important characteristics of this tool are mobility and collaboration. We also report about an initial testing of the tool which has shown further advantages of using mobile technology in this scenario.

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“…A fundamental part of BPM is business processes elicitation, which starts with understanding the activities involved and then identify its inputs, outputs, flow of activities, decision points, parallelisms and convergences [13]. In order to bring this to a model, it is necessary to use some kind of notation.…”

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Mobile Collaboration for Business Process Elicitation from an Agile Development Methodology Viewpoint

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Reveco

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2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on E-Business Engineering

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“…In the process modeling domain, students can use commercial desktop or tools available online (Redondo et al, 2014) that enable communication and collaboration. There is a variety of online digital tools can be used in e-tivities like conducting interviews for the purpose of requirements elicitation (De Freitas & Borges, 2003) process model sketch elaboration (Baloian & Zurita, 2011) or for collaborative modeling (Recker et al, 2013;Holenko Dlab et al, 2017).…”

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Formative Assessment Activities to Advance Education: A Case Study

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Aim/Purpose: During the education of future engineers and experts in the field of computer science and information communication technology, the achievement of learning outcomes related to different levels of cognitive ability and knowledge dimensions can be a challenge. Background: Teachers need to design an appropriate set of activities for students and combine theory-based knowledge acquisition with practical training in technical skills. Including various activities for formative assessment during the course can positively affect students’ motivation for learning and ensure appropriate and timely feedback that will guide students in further learning. Methodology: The aim of the research presented in this paper is to propose an approach for course delivery in the field of software engineering and to determine whether the use of the approach increases student’s academic achievement. Using the proposed approach, the course Process Modeling for undergraduate students was redesigned and experimental study was conducted. Course results of the students (N=82) who took the new version of the course (experimental group) were compared to the results of the students from the control group (N=66). Contribution: An approach for a blended learning course in the field of software engineering was developed. This approach is based on the formative assessment activities that promote collaboration and the use of digital tools. Newly designed activities are used to encourage a greater level of acquired theoretical content and enhance the acquisition of subject-specific skills needed for practical tasks. Findings: The results showed that students who participated in the formative assessment activities achieved significantly better results. They had significantly higher scores in the main components of assessment compared to the students from the control group. In addition, students from the experimental group expressed positive views about the effectiveness of the used approach. Recommendations for Practitioners: The proposed approach has potential to increase students’ motivation and academic achievements so practitioners should consider to apply it in their own context. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers are encouraged to conduct additional studies to explore the effectiveness of the approach with different courses and participants as well as to provide further insights regarding its applicability and acceptance by students. Impact on Society: The paper provides an approach and an example of good practice that may be beneficial for the university teachers in the field of computer science, information-communication technology, and engineering. Future Research: In the future, face-to-face activities will be adapted for performance in an online environment. Future work will also include a research on the possibilities of personalization of activities in accordance with the students’ characteristics.

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“…There are several tools that support collaborative modelling [19] on mobile devices. For example, NetSketcher [1] is a tool to create BPMN models on mobile devices, and it can be used for collaborating in synchronous and asynchronous ways. FlexiSketch [38] is a sketching mobile tool for requirements modelling.…”

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“…Otherwise, these models may need to be defined with pen and paper on-place and then transferred into a computer at the working place. For these reasons, several tools have emerged to tackle this challenge, like NetSketcher [1], CEL [16], HoloFlow [24] or DSL-comet [32].…”

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Towards access control for collaborative modelling apps

Brunschwig

Guerra

Lara

2020

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedi

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Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are small languages tailored to narrow domains. Their purpose is to cope with the needs of domain experts, who might not have a software engineering background. In previous work, we proposed the novel notion of Active DSLs, which are graphical DSLs extended to benefit from mobility using geolocation and interactions with external services and devices. Active DSLs are the central component of a mobile collaborative appl called DSL-comet. Modelling using DSLs can be done collaboratively by a group of stakeholders, and the levels of required confidentiality and integrity may vary across modelling artefacts. While preventing the access to protected data has been tackled for DSLs used on static environments like laptops and desktop computers, it has not been envisioned for modelling on mobile devices. The latter poses further challenges as access permissions may depend not just on user profiles but also on conditions that only make sense in mobility, such as geolocation or information retrieved from nearby sensors. Embracing the approach of Active DSLs, we propose an annotation meta-model to provide fine-grained role-based access control to any domain meta-model, hence enabling model element protection when collaborating in mobility. The paper describes our current implementation and our envisioned low-code solution, which includes a cloud-based textual editor to define role hierarchies and permissions for the domain meta-models. CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering → Domain specific languages.

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A collaborative mobile approach for business process elicitation

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Mobile Collaboration for Business Process Elicitation from an Agile Development Methodology Viewpoint

Mobile Collaboration for Business Process Elicitation from an Agile Development Methodology Viewpoint

Formative Assessment Activities to Advance Education: A Case Study

Towards access control for collaborative modelling apps

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