Business Process based Initial Modeling at Software Development

The fundamental problem of high-level quality software development is the elaboration of well-designed and correct model of the developing system. The most critical phase is the "birth" of the model, the specification of the initial model. This paper describes the method to use the already existing Business Process Model to set up the initial model for the software to be developed. Especially Business Process Management systems can be well described by business processes using workflow. This paper makes recommendations how to incorporate workflow in the development process. The basic principle of the method to elaborate the initial model is that using the usually already existing workflow an UML action diagram can be worked out with the help of mapping that can be a useful additional source for further development processes.