Collaborative Activities Inside Pools

Choreographies and Conversations, introduced with BPMN 2.0, will make mode-ers able to describe interactions among different Participants as well as messages exchange. Often enough different Participants have to accomplish the same task. This can be now easily and clearly represented using BPMN 2.0. BPMN 2.0 does not specify the usage of Lanes neither their meaning. However, Lanes are some-times used to specify internal roles or departments. In this context it could happen that modelers want to represent an Activity per-formed by different roles or offices together (e.g., attending the same meeting, collaborative writing of a document). Such situation has been modeled so far by using merging Gateways placed before the activities, but this patch does not solve a related problem. BPMN forces to draw elements within Lanes boundaries. This means that, at least conceptually, one Activity is lead by the subject which the containing Lane is linked to, which is not necessarily true. Some experiments revealed how much the means to model such inner collaboration is a desirable feature.

CHINOSI Michele; 

2016-03-01

Future Strategies Inc.

JRC67361

978-0-9819870-3-3,   

http://bpmnhandbook.com/06_digital_edition.html,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC67361,