Title
A Process Variant Modeling Method Comparison: Experience Report.
Abstract
Various process variant modeling methods have been introduced in the literature to manage process diversity in a business context. In industrial settings, it is difficult to select a method suitable for the needs and limitations of the organization due to the limited number of examples and guidelines. In this paper, we report our experiences on variant modeling in a process management consultancy company. The company experienced difficulties in maintaining and reusing process definitions of their customers and decided to evaluate variant modeling methods as a solution. We selected two methods, the Decomposition Driven and the Provop, to develop variant models of seven software project management processes from five customers. We evaluated the results together with company experts. This study contributes to the field by providing real-life examples of two variant modeling methods, a comparison of the results with these methods and a guideline for choosing a method under comparable conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-39429-9_18
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Business process modeling,Process variant modeling,Decomposition driven method,Provop
Business context,Engineering management,Reuse,Computer science,Process modeling,Knowledge management,Software project management,Business process modeling
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
248
1865-1348
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Banu Aysolmaz1398.67
Ali Yaldiz210.35
Hajo A. Reijers33424193.65