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This unique book is the first to provide a comprehensive method for implementing and maintaining business processes that help IT professionals and software engineers improve software quality, reduce time-to-market, quickly respond to changes in requirements, and more precisely specify the reuse of software components. The business process implementation approach detailed here utilizes the industry's hottest concepts, including metadata repositories, scenarios, roles, business rules, data modeling, component reuse, and workflow.
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Business Process Implementation for IT Professionals by Robert B. Walford ISBN: 0890064806 Artech House © 1999 (599 pages) An all-inclusive roadmap to help you convert business practices into applications to facilitate those same business practices. Table of Contents Business Process Implementation for IT Professionals and Managers Foreword Preface Chapter 1 - Introduction Part I - Automation asset management Chapter 2 - Automation asset system Chapter 3 - Life cycle management Chapter 4 - Repository utilization Chapter 5 - Business rules Chapter 6 - Financial management Chapter 7 - Planning and strategy Part II - Automation assets Chapter 8 - Process modeling Chapter 9 - Scenario modeling Chapter 10 - Role modeling Chapter 11 - Information modeling Chapter 12 - Client/server modeling Chapter 13 - Dialog and action modeling Chapter 14 - Software component modeling Chapter 15 - Workflow modeling Part III - Automation methodology Chapter 16 - Overview of process implementation methodology Chapter 17 - Spirals Chapter 18 - Step 1: Define/refine process map Chapter 19 - Step 2: Identify dialogs Chapter 20 - Step 3: Specify act