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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