Towards an Approach for Estimating Impact of Changes on Business Processes

A business process needs to be constantly reviewedto accommodate new business requirements and regulations.To this end, it is important to manage the impact of this reviewon a process by determining which parts are affected and morecritically estimating the overall cost of this review. In thispaper we present an approach to manage the changes in aprocess. We model a process as a set of business rules that arestructured using the ECAPE formalism standing for Event,Condition, Action, Post–condition, and post-Event Thisformalism allows translating a process into a graph of rulesthat is used for two types of analysis: business processes agilityand cost of changes. This cost is based on our Rule ChangeCost Model (R2CM).