RE: eBTWG BPSS Project Proposal

["Welsh, David" <David.Welsh@nordstrom.com>]

> 
> Maarten Steen
> > Sometimes, I get the feeling there is a hidden
> > agenda in some of the project proposals (like the one on monitored
> committments) to come
> > up with a completely new language for business process analysis.
> 
> Not really.  The monitored commitments project wants to move
> in the direction of enabling business users to define 
> business processes
> declaratively.  The declarations will need to map to one or more
> implementation
> languages, via predefined analysis components (for example, 
> commitment-
> fulfillment relationships, which is the example of the idea 
> that the project
> will focus on).
> 

Maarten,
The notion of 'commitment' and the concept of 'monitored commitments' really came up in the original ebXML BP work, atleast a  good half a year ago. (and other work such as Open-edi talks about 'commitment' too).

'commitment' is the desired business effect I think we're shooting to have from a technical B2B relationship, but the formalized structure of the context of a business commitment if it's only centered on a document payload falls far short of what's needed.

As far as I can see, 'monitored commitments' is one of the main payback reasons why I'm willing to take what limited business time I have to formally model a business process; ie. so I can directly run the business process model against the actual business operation - and stop doing the same thing
manually ! 

BPSS started looking at things like REA, but due to lack of time (to complete the level of necessary detailed work) and an un-natural amount of design churn towards the end of the project, it was dropped from that final deliverable.

This is really a continuation of that concept and work. 

-Dave




> The idea is for business people to be able to say "I want to 
> use the XYZ
> order-fulfillment pattern" with maybe a little customization, 
> rather than
> needing to muck about with transitions, forks, joins, etc.  
> The patterns
> could be implemented in different languages, as in current software
> design patterns.
> 
> Clear enough?  There are examples of patterns at the business 
> transaction
> level in the UN/CEFACT UMM documents, for example, offer-acceptance.
> We're just taking the idea up a level to longer business 
> collaborations.
> 
> -Bob Haugen
> 
> 
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