CS 477 Workflow Systems
Facilitator
Name: Muhammad Waseem Khan
Phone: 303 755 1094 (home/work)
303 883 5906 (mobile)
Email: mkhan@regis.edu
Course Companion Website
http://academic.regis.edu/mkhan
This web site will have all the material that will be used in the class.
Course Outcomes
At the end of the course, students will have a good theoretical and practical
understanding of:
 Workflow systems
 Process engineering
Grading Policy
Final
Assignments
Group Project
Class participation
40
20
30
10
Grading Range
A
93 – 100
C
73 – 76
A- 90 – 92
C- 70 – 72
B+ 87 - 89
D+ 67 – 69
B
83 – 86
D
63 – 66
B- 80 – 82
D- 60 – 62
C+ 77 - 79
F Below 60
Required Text
Leymann F. and Roller D. (2000) Production Workflow Concepts and Technique , Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-021753-0
Supplemental Text:
Smith, David E. (2000) Knowledge, Groupware and the Internet. Worburn, MA:
Butterworth-Heinemann.
ISBN 0-7506-7111-4
Khoshafian, Setrag & Buchiewicz, Marek (1995) Introduction to Groupware, Workflow,
and Workgroup Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN: 0-471-02946-7.
Schedule
Workshop
Readings
Administrative
1
Chapters 1, 2
Introductions, team building,
syllabus, roster etc.
2
Chapters 3, 4
Assignment 1 due
3
Class handouts
Assignment 2 due
4
Class handouts
Distribute midterm
5
Project presentations
Collect midterm
Written Project –. This is a real world team project selected from either your workplace
or from a text. The Project Team Paper will be submitted in the 5th week and should
include the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
As-is process model
Fit-gap analysis findings
To-be process model
Decision support for the selection of workflow software
High level project plan for implementation
Work Load and Attendance
This course will meet once a week for four hours. The highly accelerated pace requires
that students take a great deal of responsibility for their own learning. While in class,
students are required to actively participate in class and group activities. Outside the
class, students should expect a minimum of 15 hours per week of study.
Because of the accelerated nature of the course, attendance is very important. Two
missed classes will be allowed, after adequate in advance notification. If additional
absence is required, it will have to be made up. No more than a total of three classes can
be missed for successful completion of this course.