Survey, Analysis and Validation of Information for Business Process Modeling

Business processes modeling became a fundamental task for organizations. To model business processes is necessary to know all the activities as well as consumed and produced informational resources. From this knowledge, abstractions are constructed, which allow elaborating a highlevel business process model. This modeling process, which goes from the survey of the activities of the organizational units to the construction of a business model, follows a bottom-up approach. However, the majority of the existing business processes modeling tools follow a top-down approach, more adjusted to the To Be modeling, what makes the development of the As Is modeling more difficult. These tools start from the high-level business processes models, which became detailed to a more granular level through the decomposition in activities, the opposite of the necessary for the As Is modeling. This document establishes a methodology for the survey, analysis and validation of the information necessary for As Is business processes modeling, conjugating top-down and bottom-up approaches, in an iterative and articulated way.