OMSAR organized two BPR and UML training workshops

OMSAR organized two training workshops, the first on Business Process Reegineering (BPR) v3.0 and the second on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) v3.0.

The workshops took place between April 7th and June 10th 2011 in OMSAR’s main conference room and were given by Mr. Akram Najjar. Attendees included OMSAR staff and inspectors from Research and guidance at the Civil Service Board.

The BPR workshop met the following objectives:

• To understand the difference between Departmental or Functionally driven and Process Driven organizations.
• To understand the meaning of “process” and to differentiate the term from procedures, workflows, etc.
• To arrive at a method of identifying processes
• To allow participants to recognize the weaknesses or sicknesses of processes
• To expose the different types of process improvements: incremental improvements using TQM principles and BPR resorting to dramatic and fundamental changes in the processes
• To present the participants with a set of techniques that are currently used by BPR practitioners

The BPR workshop presented a generic framework for BPR projects made up of several activity blocks one of which covered modeling of the AS IS processes and another which covered the modeling of the processes TO BE.

The UML workshop met the following objectives:

• To understand why traditional modeling techniques have failed and are still failing
• To understand the difference between a modeling language and a modeling method
• To understand the design principles or criteria for a proper modeling language
• To chart the development of the UML hence showing that it meets the above criteria
• To chart the areas where the UML can be used: current system modeling, reengineered process modeling, simple process documentation, development of training manuals, development of software applications, development of test scripts and scenarios, etc.
• To present in general form the 13 models of the UML 
• To expose the activity block (used in the BPR framework) that defines the method for using the UML in a BPR or other projects 
• To understand how to identify Business Processes in an Organization 
• UML’s Use Cases 
• UML’s Class Diagram (Business Objects)
• UML’s Activity Diagram for Modeling Use Cases and Objects 
• UML’s State Machine Diagram for Modeling Object Lifecycles 
• UML’s Sequence/Communications Diagrams for Modeling Use Cases 
• UML’s Implementation Diagrams 
• UML’s Interaction Overview Diagram