please do not use handwriting

Objective: To demonstrate the understanding of the concepts and techniques learned in the course and to show an appreciation of business process modelling.

Assignment Description:

This project involves you to think of a business you are very familiar with its business processes, and do the following:

Tasks:

Task 1. Design its process architecture as follow [3 points]:

1. Identify the core, support, and management processes. Organize the processes within appropriate process groups in a process landscape.

2. Identify the value chains for sourcing and renting the equipment

Task 2. Model the as-is business process as follow [4points]:

Using BMPN, model the as-is business process and make sure to show events, activities, message flows, pools, swim lanes and other artifacts where needed.

Note: Use the concept of a Black box where needed.

Task 3. Explain what is happening step by step [3 points].

1. There should be a detailed description of the model. Name the participants, and explain what is happening, step-by-step.

2. Indicate what triggers n(Starts) the process, explain input and outputs.

Procedure:

1. Combine both parts into a single document with a cover page and submit in Blackboard by the due date. Please do your diagramming using a BPMN drawing tool and paste the BPMN Diagram into a Word doc.

2. Please include at the beginning of the submission, the course name, the assignment number, your name(s), and id.

3. Ten percent of the grade is the professional presentation of your results.

Guidelines for the model should be:

1. It needs at least 2 pools, and at least 4 swim lanes (could be 3+1, or 2+2 or more).

2. There should be some communication among the pools.

3. There need to be several activities and gateways among the lanes.

4. The example cannot be taken from any of the articles on our examples in Lecture notes, pervious assignments, or from the book.