NAs your organization’s systems analyst, senior management has asked you to brief the organization’s End User Applications Development Committee on business process modeling methodologies.
Specifically, the Committee is interested in knowing more about the following:
ebXML
Event-Driven Process Chains (EPC) method
IDEF is family of methods for enterprise modeling and analysis
Petri nets
Resource Event Agent (REA)
Role Activity Diagrams (RAD)
The Architectural Modeling Box for Enterprise Redesign (AMBER)
The Business Process Modeling Language (BPML)
Tasks:
Select ONE (1) methodology from the above list.
Develop a graduate-level paper of NOT LESS THAN three (3) pages that provides the Committee with answers to the following questions, with respect to your selection:
What is the industry/working definition of the selected methodology? (e.g., provide some background information)
Where and under what conditions, would the selected methodology be best suited, used or applied?
Why should this methodology be approved for use by the organization for system development projects going forward?
What are the strengths of this selected methodology?
What are the weaknesses of this selected methodology?
Please remember that any and all secondary, third-party sources used in developing your response MUST BE (a) used to supplement your own thoughts and ideas NOT replace them; and (b) accurately and completely cited.
Please remember the DIFFERENCE between a reference and a citation!
