Reverse Engineering of Enterprise Business Processes - Enterprise Information Systems Design, Implementation and Management: Organizational Applications - page 106

Figure 6. The process of reverse-engineering

phase consists of several steps detailed below.
Each step is illustrated with an example extracted
from the academic web application.

with details in the introduction and they are clas-
sified in 4 categories:

• Enhance process comprehension and

communication. identifying Modeling context

• Facilitate process management.

In the first phase “Identifying modeling context” ,
the modeler must specify the modeling context:
the motivation for reverse-engineering and its
scope, i.e., the set of global processes that must
be modeled.

• Facilitate process execution.

• Adapt easily processes with their

environment.

For example the objective of the reverse-
engineering of academic the web application is
to provide understandable process models by the
managers of the application in the university insti-
tutions. Thus the objective is to enhance process
comprehension and communication.

Identifying Motivations

Several motivations may enhance the leaders of
organizations to adopt a reverse-engineering ap-
proach for their business processes. These reasons
result from the need to change or reformulate
the vision of the enterprise. Generally reverse
engineering is followed by a phase of reengineer-
ing. Therefore, considering reverse-engineering
motivations should allow flexible models to be
constructed. These motivations were described

Identifying The Business Scope

In most cases the modeling scope is determined
by the leaders of the organizations that specify
the global processes to be studied. But sometimes
the scope should be extended to include other
processes and other structures of the enterprise