Teaching and Learning Activity: Suggested Solutions

Module: Workflow Management 3 (HWFM300-1)

Week number (Date): 3 (02 September 2021)
Unit covered: Lesson 2 and Lesson 3

1 Discuss the importance of the following diagrams that are related to designing
business processing workflow diagrams

A. Data Flow Diagrams

The data inputs and data outputs from a Data Flow Diagram, indicate formal
parameters. These parameters are used in the business process and sub FBPM
processes. The data stores indicate permanent repositories of data that exist Chapter
beyond the life of individual process instances. 3

B. Activity Diagrams
The swimlanes in the activity diagrams, provide a means of grouping elements
within a process. A pool identifies participants in a collaboration, and provides a
means of partitioning specific acitivities from other pools.

C. UML Diagrams
These provide a means of describing the operation of a process. An action
corresponds to a single step in an activity in a business process. The nodes are
constructs that link actions in a process and clarify the specific details associated
with control and data flow. The paths signify the flow of objects, data elements,
tokens and signals in a process. The containment elements provide various FBPM
mechanisims for grouping nodes withina process model for specific purposes. Page 18

2. You have just been employed by ABC Bakery. ABC has recently started
manufacturing chocolate as a secondary product. Explain whether if the business
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workflow has to be changed from processing perspective.
Study
Business process workflows provide a point for analysis of the business,
preventing bottlenecks and ensures conformance. One way allows business Guide
process workflows change is when the process definition is extended (e.g. by Page 79
adding new tasks to cover process extensions). The addition of chocolate
manufacturing to ABC Bakery adds new tasks to the manufacturing process.

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 Process extensions have to be done for administration, monitoring, and workflow
processes.

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