Business Process on Information System, another IT Education

Overview

A related group of steps or activities in which people use information and other resources to create value for internal or external customer [Information System, Alter].

The origins of BPM principles can be traced back as far as Adam Smith's idea of the division of labour in manufacturing (1776). Originally, one person would make one item from beginning to end in a cottage industry situation. Adam Smith argued that breaking up the whole process and creating specialised tasks would simplify and speed up the whole process.Time motion study by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) the US engineer and Lillian Gilbreth (early US theorists on productivity and workplace science)

Process Model

Process for Businees Phase are :

• Documenting business process
• A business process that involved naming business process and subdividing them into their basic elements so that they can be understood and improved
• Process Modeling is essential part of IS development

Modelling Techniques

• Flowchart : are technique for representing the flow of process 
• Data Flow Diagram : show how process depends on storage and flow of data
• Structure English : show the details of process
• Use Case Diagram

Flowchart

Diagram expressing the sequence and logic of procedures using standardized symbols to represent input/output, processing and data storage.

Data Flow Diagram (DFD)

• Focus the analysis on flow of data between subprocess
• Symbols : process, data flow, data store, entity
• No symbol for flow of material

• DFD do not include the symbols for expressing decision points and sequences of operation

Structure English

A way to represent the precise logic of procedure by writing out that logic using a few limited form such us sequence, iteration, selection format. Also known as pseudocode.