Wednesday, July 25, 2007

What is a Process Model?

A model is nothing by a reflection of a concept or a reference point. It provides a foundation for an organization to commence its activities. It reflects the benefit of a community's prior experiences and learning's and works as a common language and a shared vision.
Model helps in prioritizing actions within an organization since it provides the base and reference. It provides guidance for defining what "improvement" means to any organization.

Having said that, a process model is a collection of elements which describe the characteristics of effective processes. The processes that are deliberated and included in the model are those proven by experience to be effective. With a clear foundation and a method for deriving the approach it is easier for setting process improvement objectives and priorities for an organization without re-inventing the wheel on a trial and error method. Process models helps in ensuring that stable, capable and mature processes are defined and implemented across organizations. Be it project specific or organizational wide, the model provides guidance for continual improvements. Various monitoring aspects such as audits, asessments, appriasal methodologies help in assessing the state of improvement efforts within the organization and to take the necessary corrective or preventive actions.

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