ITEC _ Vera Werneck

ITEC 4030 Business Process Management Systems

(Formerly IT Strategies)

Intensive Course at York University

Winter 2011

Course Logistics

Class Information: Monday and Wednesday from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Professor: Vera Werneck, Ph.D.

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:30 to 3:30

Email: vera@ime.uerj.br

Required material: 1. El Sawy, O.: Redesigning Enterprise Processes for E-Business,

McGraw-Hill, 2001 (On 2-hour reserve at Steacie Library)

2. Workflow-BPR process modeling software (included in El Sawy's text)

Reference Texts: 1. Khan, R.N.: Business Process Management: A Practical Guide, Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2004

• Havey, M.: Essential of Business Process Modeling, O'Reilly, 2005

Course website: http://www.ime.uerj.br/~vera /ITEC4030

Course Syllabus: Syllabus-Vwerneck-novo.rtf

Important Dates

January 12^th : No workshop but all hours in lectures
January 17^th : Submission of team rosters (number of students per team TBA)
January 24^th : Submission of proposal (Phase 1 of 3)
January 24^th : Last day to drop the course without receiving a grade
February 2^nd : Submission of business process report (Phase 2 of 3)
February 9^th : In-lab assignment (can not be made up !)
February 14^th :Submission of the IT solution report (Phase 3 of 3)
TBA: Final exam - February 14^th from 4 to 7 PM
Peer Evaluation February 14yh (Form)

Schedule For Lectures and Workshops

Date	Topic(s)	Readings
Jan 12	(L) Course introduction and overview (L) Key issues around BPR for e-business (W) No workshop	Ch1 Ch 2
Jan 17	(L) Principles and tactics of BPR for e-business (W) A first step towards the selection of a topic for the project	Ch 3
Jan 19	(L) Scoping an enterprise process (W) A tour on how to use Workflow-BPR	Ch 4
Jan 24	(L) Foundations of business process modeling (W) Process modeling	Ch 5
Jan 26	(L) Analysis and redesign of an enterprise process	Ch 6
	(W) Process analysis
Jan 31	(L) IT solutions enabling the redesigned	Ch 7 + Handout
	(W) BPR problem # 1
Feb7	(L) Foundations of business integration	Handout
	(W) Process Simulation
Feb 9	(W) In-lab assignment (L) IT solutions enabling IT integration: ERP and SOA	Ch 8 + Handout
Feb 9	Project presentations (CANCELLED)
Feb 14	Final Exam

(L) = Lecture; (W) = Workshop

Jan 12