Related Professional Practices
Keep in mind that the framework focuses on process management. It also integrates the overall management of business change. It isn’t a systems development methodology. It doesn’t show how policies and business rules should be documented. It won’t guide you through job design or organization development. It won’t develop training courses for you. It won’t tell you how to draw blueprints for the new building that you might need.
It will, however, make it easier to do all of these more quickly and to a higher quality level. You will invoke the methods of each area of professional practice under the umbrella of the Develop phase. Figure 5.13 shows a simplified example for the system development area. Treating the framework as an extension to information systems development can become a fatal mistake. These methods are separate yet tightly dependent on one another, passing critical knowledge among themselves. The Process Management Framework shown across the top interacts with the information systems development phases shown at the bottom. A number of deliverables flow back and forth, but the two professional practice areas aren’t parts of one another. They are complementary. The same is true of the other professional areas built as part of the Develop phase.
Figure 5.13. The relationship between process management methods and information systems development.
