AN ESTIMATION PROCEDURE TO DETERMINE THE EFFORT REQUIRED TO MODEL BUSINESS PROCESSES

Claudia Cappelli, Flavia Maria Santoro, Vanessa Nunes, Marcio de O. Barros, José Roberto Dutra

2010

Abstract

Business processes modeling projects are increasingly widespread in organizations. Companies have several processes to be identified and modeled. They usually invest much in hiring expert consultants to do such job. However, they still find no guidelines to help them estimate how much a process modeling project will cost or how long this will take. We propose an approach to estimate the effort required to conduct a BPM project and discuss results obtained from over 50 projects in a large Brazilian company.

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Cappelli C., Maria Santoro F., Nunes V., de O. Barros M. and Dutra J. (2010). AN ESTIMATION PROCEDURE TO DETERMINE THE EFFORT REQUIRED TO MODEL BUSINESS PROCESSES . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-06-5, pages 178-184. DOI: 10.5220/0002884201780184


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={Claudia Cappelli and Flavia Maria Santoro and Vanessa Nunes and Marcio de O. Barros and José Roberto Dutra},
title={AN ESTIMATION PROCEDURE TO DETERMINE THE EFFORT REQUIRED TO MODEL BUSINESS PROCESSES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={178-184},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002884201780184},
isbn={978-989-8425-06-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - AN ESTIMATION PROCEDURE TO DETERMINE THE EFFORT REQUIRED TO MODEL BUSINESS PROCESSES
SN - 978-989-8425-06-5
AU - Cappelli C.
AU - Maria Santoro F.
AU - Nunes V.
AU - de O. Barros M.
AU - Dutra J.
PY - 2010
SP - 178
EP - 184
DO - 10.5220/0002884201780184