Lecture 9: Business Process Compliance by

Question 1

Business Process Correctness

Answer 1

• 1st: is your businessprocess syntactically correct? (does it have start,end etc.)
• 2nd: is it sound? Reachability? Does it contain path from start to end? Does it contain deadlocks/livelocks?
• 3rd: Is it compliant? Doesit adhere to Laws and bylaws, Security, Standards, and best practices?
• As a manager you are focusing on business goals, however these might not align with Laws and bylaws, Security, Standards, and best practices => balancing act

Question 2

Business Process Compliance

Answer 2

Compliance = formal alignment between laws andprocesses

• Requires you to:
• Have a formal language that describes the law
• Check that the obligations established in the law are exerted in the process and thatthe rights in the law are achievable
• Involves studying the process at multipledimensions: control flow, data, organizational, time

Question 3

Compliance and Business Process Lifecycle

Answer 3

Compliance mustbe ensured in all stages of the business process lifecycle:-Design (compliance checking

• Execution (compliance monitoring)
• Post-mortem (compliance audit)
• change

Question 4

Alignment in BPMN

Answer 4

Need different language to express formal policies (linear temporal logic)

Question 5

Alignment in DCR

Answer 5

Both laws and processes are declarative, no need for further languages