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without exception; best-practice process models like project management procedures
are to be seen as recommendations.
The process modeling technique of CoIN-IQ is structured text, which is due to
several reasons: Zero effort training, straightforward modeling, and perpetuation in
industrial strength applications. Zero effort has to be spent on training, since any IESE
member can read structured text without previous training. Furthermore,
straightforward modeling means that any IESE members can model processes using
structured text, if supported by guidelines and the CoIN team. This aspect is
additionally fortified by the experience in scientific publishing of most IESE
members.
4.2.2
Content of CoIN-IQ
To achieve these objectives, the following information is captured within CoIN-IQ.
Each of those information objects can be linked to other objects according to Figure
4:
•
Process Descriptions
: Process descriptions describe the activities captured within
CoIN (e.g., project management). Complex processes are structured into a
hierarchy of super- and sub-processes.
•
Role Descriptions
: Role descriptions describe the roles that are involved in the
execution of processes.
•
Agent Descriptions
: Agent Descriptions are used within role descriptions to name
roles that are performed by a specific IESE member.
•
Product Representations
: A Product Representation represents a document to be
used during process execution.
Overviews
: Overviews structure the other objects within CoIN-IQ to facilitate
browsing.
1:n
= hierarchic
relation
Overview
(Processes, R oles,
C hanges...)
≈
# 25
1:n
1:n
1:n
n:m
Process
D escription
Role
D escription
≈
# 100
≈
# 60
n:m
n:m
Product
R epresentation
Agent
D escription
≈
# 80
≈
# 60
Fig. 4.
Simplified structure of objects in CoIN-IQ. Arrows show how objects are linked. The
relations are to be read according to the direction of the arrows (e.g., one overview can refer to
n other overviews, role descriptions or process descriptions). Italics denominate the number of
elements of the respective type of objects within CoIN-IQ.
