TY  - JOUR
A1  - Günther, Oliver
A1  - Leopold, Henrik
A1  - Mendling, Jan
T1  - Learning from quality issues of BPMN models from industry
T2  - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
N2  - Many organizations use business process models for documenting their business operations. In recent years, the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) evolved into the leading standard for process modeling. However, BPMN is complex: The specification offers a huge variety of different elements and often several representational choices for the same semantics. This raises the question of how well modelers can deal with these choices. Empirical insights into BPMN usage from the perspective of practitioners are still missing. We close this gap by analyzing a large set of BPMN 2.0 process models from practice. We found that particularly representational choices for splits and joins, the correct use of message flow, the proper decomposition of models, and the consistent labeling appear to be connected with quality issues. Based on our findings we give five recommendations how these issues can be avoided in the future. The work summarized in this extended abstract has been published in [LMG16].
KW  - BPMN modeling guidelines
KW  - Modeling recommendations
KW  - Process model quality
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41587
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84996503810&origin=inward&txGid=98101b239363e3f806d7fadf22f788e2
SN  - 1613-0073
VL  - 1701
SP  - 36
EP  - 38
ER  -