Reviewing customized processes

This topic discusses the review of customized processes.

Roles
- Business users
- Business analyst
- Key stakeholders
Input
- Customized business processes
- Activity description documents
Deliverables: signed off business processes

The processes produced during the initial customization must be reviewed in the light of business requirements and stated organizational strategy before finalization. Verify that the modeled processes:

Meet project business objectives
Observe good engineering principles
Capture business requirements

Verifying business requirements
By matching the customized business processes with the stated requirements and strategic objectives, determine that these requirements and objectives have been correctly and fully captured. Make sure the requirements captured within the processes are clear and unambiguous. Definitions must be complete and without ambiguity in the stated purpose or scope of business activities.
Scope completeness
It is possible that the reviewed processes accurately and completely capture the requirements within their scope, but additional processes are required to cover the full project scope.
Nonfunctional requirements
The customized processes must be reviewed in the light of nonfunctional requirements.
Process sign-off
This topic discusses process sign-off.
Stabilizing processes
The customized and finalized processes for the project form the backbone for the subsequent key analysis areas in the project lifecycle.
Simulating business processes
In addition to a first pass of service candidate identification, a phase of simulation and costing can be included as part of the final review of the customized processes. Certain process modeling tools support the evaluation of time and cost measures for a business process through simulation and optimization. During this phase of analysis, additional changes can be made to the overall business process to enhance scalability and performance.

Parent topic: Customizing the Analysis Process Model