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We all agree it is important to monitor, track and report on the ‘common theme’ that runs through IT projects – such as implementing or developing a new system from initiation stage to rollout and implementation phase. In this article, we discuss how the requirements and artefacts – use cases, functional specifications, technical specifications and prototypes – can be managed effectively during the project’s life cycle.

IT applications contribute to the support of business processes, or other applications, thanks to the execution of IT software. Directly or indirectly, IT applications have one main purpose: supporting the business in the most efficient way. They can be considered as an asset of the enterprise.

Creating a process management culture is a difficult and daunting task. We are never looking to make inconsequential change to unimportant processes. We look to change not just some abstract notion of activity sequence, we seek also to change the way that individuals and groups think about those activities and how we measure their success.

For many organizations, a gap persists between their aspirations for process-based management and the reality of what is achieved. They strive to get traction with the ideas of BPM, but progress is slow. Creating an Office of BPM (OBPM) can galvanize interest and action and provide a mechanism for effective control and support of the many process initiatives.

ARIS is recognized as being one of the leading enterprise architecture tools by all the analysts, in addition to supporting in excess of 150 modelling methods it is also infinitely customizable. A powerful attribute of the tool is that configuring ARIS customized requirements is fast, easy and requires no coding meaning you can adapt modelling use to support almost any scenario. However to harness this power you need some knowledge about what not to do and some creative thinking.