seven forms of bpm – after read
use case 1:bpm as a disciplinerefers to the analysis, documentation and improvement of the procedures thatdescribe how people and systems work together in an organization.In the context of BPM as a discipline, we believe that a process modelfrom a non technical business analyst can never be translated into an [...]
Workflow建模和传统建模的区别
其实无论是什么样的系统都可以看作是数据的处理,系统的功能在于如何收集数据,修改数据,显示数据,改变数据状态.在没有使用workflow引擎做系统建模时,最常见的做法是数据有n种状态,在进行数据处理是根据这n种状态的组合来决定当前数据状态,和改变数据状态如果数据状态很复杂时,这个数据状态矩阵会变的很复杂很抽象.不利于管理.
而workflow得侧重点在于流程建模,也就是数据都是有他的生命周期的,这个生命周期就是flow.将数据的状态抽离于数据本身,独立为flow.
举个例子:假设有一个很简单的面试流程,一共三轮.
传统的做法是在candidate表上加三个状态来表示某个candidate的面试进程,比如
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|name|age|1st round|2nd round | 3rd round |
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|andy|21 | Fail | | |
|bill|27 | Pass |In progress | [...]
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