Using Agility in Building Business Process Management Solutions

In turbulent modern economy, the companies need to properly manage their business processes. Well-defined and stable business processes ensure security of crucial data and applications, and provide a quality product or service to the end customer. On the other side, constant changes on the market, new regulatory provisions, and emerging new technologies require the need of issuing prompt and effective changes of business process. In this article, we explore the use of agile principles in working with business process management (BPM) solutions. We deal with difficulties in BPM development cycle, review the benefits of using agility, and choose the basic agile principles that ensure the success of a BPM project.

Authors:

• Krešimir Fertalj
• Mladen Matejaš

Keywords:

• Agile development
• BPM environment
• Kanban
• SCRUM
• XP.

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