Business Process Syllable
Business Process Syllable
Business Process Syllable
P/
S
SW/F
W
TOTAL
CREDIT
UNITS
Course Objectives:
The course addresses the methods and techniques required to analyze, design, implement, automate, and evaluate business processes.
Structured along the phases of the Business Process Management (BPM) life cycle, students learn to analyze organizational performance from a
process perspective, redesign processes using value-focused techniques, design workflows and implement them in BPM systems. Upon
completion of this course participants will be able to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization from a process perspective,
conduct process improvement projects, and determine the role of technology in supporting corporate processes.
Prerequisites:
A conceptual knowledge of management perspectives of business processes, databases and algorithms
20 %
Weightage
Descriptors/Topics
Module II
20%
Weightage
Descriptors/Topics
Business Process Management Life Cycle
Implementation of Business Process Life Cycle. Business Modeling,
Process Design, and Optimization. BPM best practices
Descriptors/Topics
Methodology, tools and techniques. Systems Modeling, Logical and
Physical Models, Data Modeling, Types of Data Modelling, Entity
relationship Diagram, Entity, Types of Entities, Attributes, Types of
Attributes, Domain
20 %
Weightage
20 %
Weightage
Descriptors/Topics
Methodology, tools and techniques, process and concepts Decomposition, Decomposition Diagram, Logical Process and
conventions, Structured English, Decision Table, Event
Decompositions
Diagram,
Developing
DFD,
information
engineering, Prototyping, Rapid Application Development model
driven development.
8
BPM trends
Module V: Introduction to Object Oriented Analysis & Modeling
20%
Weightage
Descriptors/Topics
Reading and interpreting an object model, describing object
modeling in the context of systems analysis with the help of class
diagram, state diagram and event diagram.
Lab/Practical/Studio (%)
100
NA
70
End Term
Examination
Mid-Term
Exam
Project
Viva
Attendance
10%
10%
5%
5%
Weightage (%)
70%
Text:
Harmon, Paul: Business Process Change. A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals. 2nd Edition, Morgan
Kaufmann, San Francisco, ISBN-10: 0123741521 ISBN-13: 978-0123741523.
Metters, King-Metters, Pullman, Walton (2007) Business Process Management.
Davis, R.: An Introduction to Business Process Modeling: getting started with BPM, (1st ed.) Springer, New York, 2007.
Dumas, M.; van der Aalst, W.M.P. and A.H.M. ter Hofstede (eds.): Process-Aware Information Systems. Bridging People and Software
Through Process Technology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005
Jeston, John; Nelis, Johan: Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations. Butterworth-Heinemann,
2006, pp. 464, ISBN 0750669217
Jeffery L. Whitten, Systems Analysis & Design Methods, Tata McGraw Hill
Awad, Systems Analysis & Design Methods, Galgotia Publications
Hoffer, Systems Analysis & Design Methods, Tata Mc Graw Hill