Chapter 4 Building an Analysis Business Process Model

Displaying a committee process

A committee process is a decomposed process whose sub-processes are managed by several organization units designed as swimlanes.

To do so, you must select the Committee Process value in the Organization Unit box of the decomposed process property sheet. This value is not available for atomic processes, or decomposed processes turned into atomic. When you select the Committee Process value, the decomposed process symbol is allowed to cover several swimlane organization units in order to show their links with sub-processes.

The background of the decomposed process symbol becomes lighter and hatched when it covers:

• An organization unit that does not manage a sub-process
• An organization unit that does not have a symbol in the sub-process diagram

Note that this display does not appear in composite view mode.

In the following example, all sub-processes of Payment are managed in the Accountancy organization unit. The symbol background of the committee process is lighter and hatched on Sales and Delivery that do not manage any sub-process and do not appear in the sub-process diagram.

To manage the display of a committee process:

1. Open the property sheet of a decomposed process.
2. Select <Committee Process> from the Organization Unit list.
3. Click OK.
4. In the diagram, move the decomposed process on the swimlane organization units and resize the process symbol in order to cover all the swimlanes.
   
   The symbol background color changes on the swimlanes corresponding to organization units that do not manage any sub-process.

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