Slides of my presentation at TAProViz workshop at BPM conference, 3 September 2012, Tallinn, Estonia

1. Visualizing the Process of Process
Modeling with PPMCharts
Jan Claes, Irene Vanderfeesten, Jakob Pinggera,
Hajo A. Reijers, Barbara Weber, Geert Poels

2. The process of process modeling
Properties of Properties of Properties of Properties of
textual description modeler modeling process resulting model
RESEARCH
Modelers were asked to construct a process model of a
case based on a given informal textual description
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3. Cheetah Experiment platform
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4. Event Log
CREATE_XOR_GATEWAY
CREATE_ACTIVITY CREATE_EDGE
CREATE_START_EVENT CREATE_AND_GATEWAY
MOVE_ACTIVITY
DELETE_ACTIVITY
NAME_EDGE CREATE_EDGE_BENDPOINT
RENAME_ACTIVITY
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5. PPMChart plug-in in ProM
OPTIONS PPMCHART FILTERS
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6. PPMChart plug-in in ProM: PPMChart
Create activity
Create AND gateway
Create edge
Move activity
Rename activity
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7. PPMChart plug-in in ProM: Options
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8. PPMChart plug-in in ProM: Filters
Examples
 Hide all edges
 Hide all move actions
 Hide all deleted items
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9. Results
We used visualisation to discover patterns
 See next slides
We used visualisation as inspiration for
conjectures about relation between
modeling process and modeling result
 Claes, et al., “Tying Process Model Quality to the
Modeling Process: The Impact of
Structuring, Movement, and Speed”, BPM 2012
conference
 Join the presentation tomorrow! 
(room Grande, 4 Sept 2012, 11:00)
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10. PPMChart: examples
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11. PPMChart: examples
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12. PPMChart: examples
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13. PPMChart: examples
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14. PPMChart: examples
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15. PPMChart: examples
Create activity
Create AND gateway
Create edge
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16. Contact information
Jan Claes - jan.claes@ugent.be
Ghent University, Belgium
Irene Vanderfeesten - i.t.p.vanderfeesten@tue.nl
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Jakob Pinggera - jakob.pinggera@uibk.ac.at
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Jan Claes
Hajo A. Reijers - h.a.reijers@tue.nl jan.claes@ugent.be
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
http://www.janclaes.info
Barbara Weber - barbara.weber@uibk.ac.at Twitter: @janclaesbelgium
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Geert Poels - geert.poels@ugent.be
Ghent University, Belgium
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