Thursday, 11 November 2010

summery of: Risk Management in the BPM Lifecycle


Title: Risk Management in the BPM Lifecycle
Authors: Michael zur Muehlen and Danny Ting-Yi Ho.
Published: 2006

This paper provided an overview of risks associated with BPM projects along the phases of the BPM lifecycle.

The paper started by trying to define BPM, providing different definitions by different researchers, and finally defining BPM as creating “alignment among the individual process components input, output, resources, process structure, and process goals”.

Then it went in to defining risk and risk management; it explains that risk management composed of 3 main phases: identification, analysis, and control of risk. And explained 4 of the management strategies; mitigation, avoidance, transfer, and acceptance.


Then in section 4 went into “risks specific to BPM projects”, and listed common risks encountered in and between BPM lifecycle phases;


This paper focused more on risks that can occur during BPM lifecycle and not on integrating risk to BPM or producing a risk-aware BPM.

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