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Deriving Business Object Definitions from User Work Process Models

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When software is developed to support user work processes (WPs) it’s purpose is to improve their quality by making them faster, cheaper, more accurate, reducing variance, etc. But across industry this purpose has not yet been met in any conspicuous manner for information workers [4].

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Butler, K.A., Esposito, C., Hebron, R. (1998). Deriving Business Object Definitions from User Work Process Models. In: Markopoulos, P., Johnson, P. (eds) Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems ’98. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3693-5_3

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