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SharePoint
..as a Workflow Management System
ANDREAS ASCHAUER, ALEGRI INTERNATIONAL

SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS 2013
ZAGREB, NOVEMBER 27-28 2013
sponsors
About..

Andreas Aschauer

Alegri International Austria
Head of Consulting

Software Engineering
SharePoint
Trainer / Consultant
Agenda

The road to ’13
From Coding to Modelling

BPM and Process Orientation

“We are having a baby”

Motivations for BPM

A quintessential sample

Procedures vs. Practices

(some of you can relate to)
Why am I telling you this ?

SharePoint has a strong background in
Workflow Management
Why am I telling you this ?

Business Process Management (BPM) is one of
the key drivers for SharePoint investments
Why am I telling you this ?

Workflow Management in SharePoint has
come a long way and changed a lot
Why am I telling you this ?

You can do so much wrong with
Workflow Management / BPM
THE ROAD TO `13
Workflows with SharePoint 2010

Visio 2010
SharePoint Designer 2010

Visual Studio 2010

3rd Party
Process
Visio 2010
SharePoint Designer 2010
Visual Studio

+
Impedance Mismatch
High Project Risk
Volatile Cost of Ownership
No common model or language for business and technology
Workflows with SharePoint 2013

Visio 2013
SharePoint Designer 2013

Visual Studio 2021
DECLARATIVE MODEL

3rd Party
Visio 2013 – Process View
Visio 2013 – Workflow View
Visio 2013 – Workflow View
Visual Studio 2012
Key improvements - General

Model First

No Code in Workflows

Process Manager &
Workflow Designer
Key improvements - Technical

Architectural Changes

“Cloud Ready” Model

Reusable Workflow Actions
Reusable Designer Actions
Wrapping Up
SharePoint OOB Workflow Capabilities have matured
The tooling has matured
Business and technology have a common modelling base
Software architecture is modular and reusable (through Activities)
BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Key Motivations
Make implicit processes visible and manageable
Optimize processes continuously

Optimize existing resources
React to change
Broadening the view
Process Improvement Process

Optimization

(Re)-Design

Monitoring

Modelling

Execution
Procedures vs. Practices
Optional accessoiries
What you get..
Monitoring of (possibly) a large number of workflow instances
Reports on performance of workflows / stakeholders
Little impedance mismatch (depends on product)
Better EAI functionality
SharePoint Workflows

+

-

No further advance cost

Unpredictable future cost

Easy to use / Familiar tooling

Limited OOB functionality

Clean architecture

Complex expansion model

Supported by MS

Custom development needed
BPM Tools

+

-

Controllable Cost of Ownership

Advance cost

Rich modelling capabilities

Training effort

Large toolbox around BPM

(Possibly) proprietary notation

EAI functionality

Need
Workflows

BPM

Intra department processes

Inter department and
corporate processes

Little to no dependency on
external systems

System integration

Small number of workflows

Large number of workflows

.NET development knowledge

No development resources
DEMO: We‘re having a baby – process
• Stakeholders
•
•
•
•
•
•

Mother
Father
Grand mother
Friends of father
Doctor
..

• Systems
• Family
• Administration
• Hospital
B(aby)PM – scaling out the family
Adapt to changes in systems influencing the process
Dynamically re-assign stakeholders
Optimize the process
Report on performance of closed instances
Know the options

Do Governance planning

Calculate the risk and total cost of ownership
Have a baby..
questions?
LINKEDIN / XING / SHAREPOINTTRENCH.COM

@ASCHAUERA
thank you.
SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS 2013
ZAGREB, NOVEMBER 27-28 2013

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SharePoint 2013 as a Workflow Management System