Hi there,
Is there anybody who is modeling with BPMN?
What do you write in the lane?
We understand it as follows:
A lane indicates the role of the person(s) who are responsible for the task in the lane.
A role is not equal to the organizational unit, but the role should be connected with the organizational unit.
A master catalog of the roles is preferred to keep it lean and avoid duplicates.
If someone does it the same way, how have you defined the roles and connected them to the organizational unit?
Kind regards,
Tetiana
Klemens Hauk on
Hi Tetiana,
your approach is a good way to handle lanes.
Be aware that BPMN is very flexible using lanes. The BPMN specification says:
"Lanes are used to organize and categorize Activities within a Pool. The meaning of the Lanes is up to the modeler.
BPMN does not specify the usage of Lanes. Lanes are often used for such things as internal roles (e.g., Manager,
Associate), systems (e.g., an enterprise application), an internal department (e.g., shipping, finance), etc."
You are free to use it as you (or your organization) like. Indeed I also often use lanes for positions (to stay with the ARIS naming conventions with the differentiation between "position" and "role", where role is the type of the position). It sometimes depends on the kind of process (if more technical oriented then a lane also can be an IT-System) or the level of modeling. When I am on a higher level I also use organizational units as lane. To realize a connection between organizational units (departments) and positions you can use the BPMN functionality that lanes can be nested. You can have an organizational unit lane that is diveded in several position lanes.
Regards
Klemens