Statistics: (3503 Views) (0 Comments) Print Posted: Monday, June 30, 2008 Categories: Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA), Business Process Management (BPM), Requirements Management and Communication (BABOK KA), Process Improvement (CMMI, Six Sigma, SPICE, etc.)

When developing or changing a process, and all its related assets, often the process engineers have to face an important issue: how defining an integrated set of processes so that each process element is designed taking in consideration its relationships with all the other interfacing elements. Together with this issue, we also have the need to ensure that all the relevant requirements for the processes and their process assets are fully understood and correctly managed. These objectives are even more difficult to achieve when more persons are working in parallel to the improvement of different process areas. The approach described in the following paper, leverages a defined process architecture and a documented specification of process requirements to ensure integration among the process elements. All the examples are referred to a CMMI® based process definition but the most of the concepts are applicable also when adopting process models other than CMMI®.

Author: Filippo Vitiello, method park Software AG