Evaluation of process architecture design methods

Abstract

Process Architecture has become a recently emerged discipline. Although several methods have been established to design process architectures, there is a lack of available studies comparing these methods. There is also little consensus on the technical and no technical issues that a method must address and which is most suitable for a particular situation. Four process architectures design methods of different authors and disciplines were selected. This paper provides an overview and comparative analysis of these methods according to a framework devised as part of our analysis. The framework considers the following criteria: context, stakeholder, contents, quality and validation. Comparison revealed different ideologies between the methods. Some methods considered the attribute of reuse at the product quality level. Furthermore, several methods have been validated in the academy and they are considered in this paper as a starting point for validation. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.