A bi-directional integration between i* and BPMN models in the context of business process management: A position paper

Business Process Management (BPM) involves identifying, modeling, understanding, rethinking and redesigning business processes so that they can achieve the organization’s goals. Using a goal oriented approach to model business process, such as i*, can systematically guide the alignment of the business processes with the strategic goals of the organization. In fact, there are more popular techniques to model business process that are focused on capturing the process activities flow, such as BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation). However, these techniques don't capture the strategic goals of the organization and, therefore, they don't make explicit the alignment (misalignment) between the processes and fulfillment of these goals. We argue in favor of using both models (i* and BPMN) in a complementary way. This paper proposes a model driven approach to obtain BPMN models from i* models and vice-versa. This bi-directional approach can be useful for practitioners of i* and for practitioners of BPMN in the context of BPM.