Lessons Learned

This section highlights the lessons learned from our process definition study. The lessons learned in the preliminary phase of the study were validated in the second and third phases. More detail on our lessons learned, particularly with respect to each of the notations, can be found in [15][6].

• Benefits of Process Definition
  • Facilitate Human Understanding and Communication
  • Support Process Improvement
  • Support Process Management
  • Provide Automated Guidance in Performing process
  • Provide Automated Execution Support
• Costs of Process Definition
  • Process Definition is Time Consuming
  • Creating Process Definitions is Difficult
  • Process Experts Are Useful
  • Learning Curve is Nontrivial
  • MVP-L and APPL/A are Research Prototypes
• Suitability of the Process Notations.
• Recommendations
  • Process Definition Training is Necessary.
  • Conventional Life Cycle.
  • Process Definition Feedback and Reuse