A BPMN 2.0 Extension to Define the Resource Perspective of Business Process Models

STROPPI, LUIS; CHIOTTI, OMAR; DAVID VILLARREAL, PABLO

Conferencia; CIbSE 2011; 2011

One of the primary motivations of BPMN is to provide an easy to understand standard way to define and visualize business process models. This goal is addressed with respect to the control flow perspective. However, the support it provides to the resource perspective is poor. This work presents an extension to the BPMN 2.0 metamodel and notation to support the modeling and visualization of resource perspective requirements. It considers three aspects of the resource perspective: resource structure, authorization and work distribution. This extension is validated against the Workflow Resource Patterns that define recurrent requirements regarding this perspective. The aim of this BPMN extension is to improve the communication of the resource perspective requirements between business analysts and technical developers.