Business Process Management

Objectives

Business processes are a core asset of corporations as they directly impact the products and services success and perceived value. Business processes set tasks, roles and responsibilities thus shaping every employee’s functions. This course aims at developing knowledge and skills related to business process management. It is an introduction and overview of BPM. The concepts, fundamentals, methods, and strategies required for managing holistic end-to-end business processes are introduced. It focuses on the application of conceptual methods and software tools to design, analyze, transform, monitor, and control business processes and improve their performance using information technology in organization from private and public sector.

General characterization

Code

200014

Credits

7.5

Responsible teacher

Frederico Miguel Campos Cruz Ribeiro de Jesus

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

Prerequisites

NA

Bibliography

  • Dumas, M., Rosa, M. L., Mendling, J., & Reijers, H. A. (2013). Fundamentals of Business Process Management. Springer Berlin Heidelberg;
  • Dumas, M., Rosa, M. L., Mendling, J., & Reijers, H. A. (2018). Fundamentals of Business Process Management 2 nd Edition. Springer Berlin Heidelberg;
  • Wil van der Aalst (2016). Process Mining: Data Science in Action 2 nd Edition. Springer Berlin Heidelberg;
  • Michael Glykas (Ed.) (2013). Business Process Management: Theory and Applications. Springer Berlin Heidelberg;
  • vom Brocke, J., & Mending, J. (Ed.) (2018). Business Process Management Cases: Digital Innovation and Business Transformation in Practice. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Teaching method

Teaching is based on lectures and practical classes. The lectures are, in essence, for expository sessions, which serve to introduce the fundamental concepts of BPM associated with each of the topics. The practical classes are based on the analysis, design and implementation of theoretical concepts, using the computers and software.

Teaching Methods

  • Expository and interrogative teaching: lectures and discussions
  • Declarative: tutorials tools
  • Active and participative: case studies, participation in project teams, use of BPM systems and technologies

Evaluation method

1 st Term: Exam* (50%) + Practical Assignment (10%) + Group Project* (40%)

2 nd Term: Exam* (60%) + Group Project* (40%)

* - Minimum grade for exam and group project is eight out of 20 points.

** - Assuming exams will be made face-to-face; One extra point will also be given to students who complete the Celonis’ “Process Mining Fundamentals Certification Program” (around 20 hours duration).

Subject matter

1. Introduction to Business Process Management

  1. Processes Everywhere
  2. What is a Business Process?
  3. Historic Perspective of BPM
  4. The BPM Lifecycle

2. Process Identification

  1. Designation phase
  2. Evaluation stage

3. Process Modeling

  1. Introduction to BPMN
  2. Branching and Merging
  3. Information Artifacts
  4. Resources
  5. Advanced Process Modeling

4. Process Discovery

  1. The Setting of Process Discovery
  2. Discovery Methods
  3. Modeling Methods
  4. Quality Assurance

5. Process Analysis

  1. Qualitative Process Analysis
  2. Quantitative Process Analysis

6. Process Redesign

  1. The Essence of Process Redesign
  2. Heuristic Process Redesign

7. Introduction to Process Mining

  1. From event logs to process models
  2. The α algorithm
  3. Process discovery
  4. Conformance checking
  5. Lasagna and spaghetti processes