Scaling BPM Adoption: From Project to Program with IBM Business Process Manager

Process discovery

The IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) methodology advocates an iterative approach to discover, implement, deploy, and manage a business process for continuous improvement. This chapter provides an in-depth explanation of the activities (stages) of process discovery. At each transition within process discovery from process identification to the planning of a new release, there must be ample evidence and a business value proposition to justify the effort to begin the next stage in the lifecycle.

Each stage in the discovery phase ...