The Process Checklist – Simple Enactment of Human-driven Processes Transforming Business Processes to Process Checklists

In traditional approaches business processes are executed on top of IT-based Workflow-Management Systems (WfMSs). However, when dealing with human-driven workflows, conventional WfMSs may turn out to be too restrictive. Especially, the only way to handle exceptions is to bypass the system. If users are forced to bypass WfMSs frequently, the system is more an obstacle than an asset. In order to diminish the dependency from IT-based process management systems, we propose a cheap and fast installable alternative way of supporting workflow execution that is especially suitable for human-driven processes. We introduce the so-called Process Checklist representation where M. Baumann Databases and Information Systems University of Bayreuth Tel.: +49-921-55-7625 Fax: +49-921-55-7622 E-mail: [email protected] S. Schönig Databases and Information Systems University of Bayreuth Tel.: +49-921-55-7627 Fax: +49-921-55-7622 E-mail: [email protected] M. H. Baumann Applied Mathematics University of Bayreuth Tel.: +49-921-55-3280 Fax: +49-921-55-5361 E-mail: [email protected] S. Jablonski Databases and Information Systems University of Bayreuth Tel.: +49-921-55-7620 Fax: +49-921-55-7622 E-mail: [email protected] pr ep ri nt 2 Michaela Baumann et al. processes are described as a paper-based step-by-step instruction handbook. Process Checklists can either be set up directly for the desired process or be derived from an already existing process model. A transformation from BPMN models to Process Checklists is given as well as implementation instructions with an underlying meta-model. Furthermore, evaluations in the academic as well as in the business domain have been performed to evaluate the approach.