I work for an organization which is geographically spread. Some locations are large, others are much smaller, but they do the same kind of work. Historically the locations had a high level of autonomy. IT is one of those areas where differences occur. Recently a reorganization of IT has taken place. The technical side was centralized and local IT departments (where I work) had to handle the 'functional' side. As one of the larger locations, my colleages and I tried to standardise and automate our internal processes. We hope that other locations will follow our initiative and (re)use the automated tasks, which are or will be written as Java classes. Although a majority of the individual tasks tend to be 'universal', the details, aggregation and sequence of these tasks in processes will differ in the locations. For instance, some locations will use task a and b, but not c, or maybe c is started before b. Looking at jBPM, I see an opportunity for realizing this scenario. A business analyst can describe a local process, and then a designer/programmer can decorate that process with automated functionality. Eventually a repository of processes will be created and gradually differences can be eliminated and improvements can be added. A positive side effect is that business requirements are not locked up in a monolitic application and that change is relatively ease to implement. What worries me somewhat is that I haven't read about such a use of a BPM product, where application flow is substituted by processes. Is this a valid use case in jBPM, or am I to ambitious? As I have to defend this solution to my management, could you give me your experiences or reasons, why this is not the way to use jBPM. Thanks in advance!
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