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Presented at CRIWG 2010 in Maastricht, Netherlands
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The Integration of Collaborative Process Modeling and Electronic Brainstorming in Co-Located Meetings
Thomas Herrmann, Alexander Nolte
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•Background and problem
•the case and derived requirements
•technical solution and employed procedure
•empirical results
Overview
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The goal to be achieved
• The design of new processes or process parts requires creativity
• Modeling and ideation (e.g. Brainstorming) can – but do not necessarily – benefit from collaboration
“an idea or product that deserves the label ‘creative’ arises from the synergy of many sources and not only from the mind of a single person”
[Csikszentmihalyi, 1996]
Modeling and ideation have to be integrated in a way that supports a seamless transfer of brainstorming results in to the process diagram
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Example of a typical process model
Case: electronic ordering and coordination of services for elderly people
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Detail – SeeMe – Semi-structured, socio-technical Modeling
RUBCase: electronic ordering and
coordination of services
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Customer
Service Agency
Checking of orders
communication
CoordinationQuality management
Improvement of services
Service Provider
Transferring dataelectronically
Forward bundledservice requests
Report andDocumentation
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Detail – SeeMe – Semi-structured, socio-technical Modeling
Brainstorming support
should be organized in a
way that it immediately
contributes to process modeling
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Limitations to be overcome
• Brainstorming tools and process modeling tools are mostly separated:– Most electronic brainstorming systems are text
based– Means for structuring - clustering, sorting, trees
(bubbl.us), mind mapping - are not aiming on process diagrams
• Creativity barriers: production blocking, evaluation apprehension, cognitive inertia, …
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Requirement: Combination of various collaboration modesParticipants …• think in solitude about their possible contributions to the
teamwork (individual user-interface)• take inspirations into account by observing what others
are contributing (shared user-interface, large screen)• intensively take part in (facilitated) communication• work on the process model as shared material
[Herrmann, 2010: Support of collaborative Creativity …]
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Types of Individual Brainstroming Contributions
Activity EntityRole Condition /Event
The participants can contribute simple process elements and their names
The need for differentiation between the types of elements may lead to production blockingA neutral element can be chosen
Benefit: notation elements can be easily combined to a process model by drag and dropProblem: short labels/names of notation elements can only be understood in the context of the process domain or of the process model as a whole
modifyingan order
evaluationform
relative bad weather
Confirma-tion call
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Work with contributed items in facilitated group discussions
• Unclear labels are explained• Brainstorming items are clustered and/or sorted (by the
facilitator or chauffeur)• Process structures (nesting, relations) are drafted (and
completed after the workshop)
Problems: People cannot have the complete process in mind but need to jump between different areas or phases of the process Linear walkthrough and facilitation causes production
blocking
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Solution
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Cycles of experience and requirements gathering
1. Drafting new processes within the socio-technical walkthrough
too linear
2. Using card based brainstorming
time consuming transfer
3. Using electronic brainstorming
structures are not compatible – constant re-orientation of participants is required
Developing a new solution
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Environment
WiFi-Network allows participants to use their own browser capable devices Low threshold
Interactive large screen
(4.8m x 1.2m)
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Webinterface
Webinterface
• Quick and easy to use• Supports element types according to the modeling notation• Green tick indicates that the contribution is captured
Modeling tool on large screen
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Modeling tool on large screen
• Integrates contributions directly into the model• Contributions appear as elements according to the
modeling notation• Supports awareness for others’ contributions
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Procedure of the case study
• Starting with prepared high-level model which serves as a frame for the brainstorming
• Inviting domain and process experts• Start with a warm-up to get used to the technology• Procedure for each part of the model:
Brainstorming, Clustering, Order chronologically
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Selected results – I
• Easy to use:
writing contributions did not interfere with ideation, people were not distracted by using the tool
11 participants contributed 129 brainstorming items in just 19 minutes
• Graphical elements vs. text-based brainstorming:
Gathering the contributions as graphical elements made the post-processing considerably easier
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Selected results – II
• Participants should be able to change / enhance own contributions:
Trade-off between short element description, which can be dragged and dropped – and need for explanation
• Possible solution:
comments which
can be hidden
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Selected results – III
• Production blocking avoided:
Participants can work in solitude and simultaneously
• Facilitator‘s interface at the large screen needs improvement:
clustering sorting, merging of contributions, elimination of redundancies, prepare brainstorming tables and prompts
• Process model as scaffold:
the already visible process structure and elements provides context and serves as an orientation
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Future work
• Commenting on or deletion of own contributions• Several brainstorming tables in parallel• Sequentially providing several prompts for each
brainstorming table
Provide a web-based facilitator interface for the preparation of brainstorming tables and prompts
[cf. Briggs, R., de Vreede, G.J., 2009: ThinkLets…]• Enhancing simultaneous work on the large screen• Flexible transitions between brainstorming, clustering and
modeling• Clustering and transfer into the process model structure
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Thank you for your kind attention
www.imtm-iaw.rub.de
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Examples for the integration brainstorming and modeling
• Usage of pre-specified modeling notation elements and / or transformation of neutral elements
• Process design by drag an drop from a brainstorming table
• Immediate insertion of contributions into existing super-elements
• Two levels:
short names of elements combined with comments