Business Processing

Question 1

What is the business process?

Answer 1

Network of activities, repositories, roles, resources, and data flows that interact to accomplish business function

Question 2

What are activities?

Answer 2

Collections of related tasks that receive inputs and produce outputs

Question 3

What is a repository?

Answer 3

A collection of something, such as an inventory is a physical repository and a database is a data repository

Question 4

What are roles?

Answer 4

Collection of activities

Question 5

What are resources?

Answer 5

People or computer apps assigned to roles.

Question 6

What is data flow?

Answer 6

Movement of Data between one activity to another or activity to repository.

Question 7

What is the scope?

Answer 7

Who what when where why.
1. Start point: where it begins and what starts it
2. What is being done or what needs to be done
3. When it needs to be done
4. Who is doing it
5. Which data does it use
6. From where does it get data
7. Where does it send data
8. When does it end? Stopping Point.

Question 8

What are the basic shapes and symbols needed?

Answer 8

Circle for start to end
Diamond for gateway and decision
Arrow for connector
Square for activity or process
Cylinder for data store
Swim lanes are rectangles through the whole thing