Project: EAKAT

Class: Transition

Parent Class(es): 

  1. Documented_Item
  2. Export_Items
  3. Identified_Item
  4. Workflow

Instances:

  • None

Subclasses:

  • None

A Transition occurs within an Activity whenever some specified condition is true. Upon the truth of the condition, the transition may initiate other processes, or may loop back to the beginning of the current process. It is important that this concept not be abused. The goal is to identify technology, or the potential application of technology. The goal is not to fully model business processes.

Attribute Definitions
Name Documentation Type Values Allowed Number Allowed Assumed Value
Description 

A Documented Item is an item that requires descriptive text above and beyond what the reader may gain from looking at the other attributes individually.

 
String VTYPE   0:1   
Transitioned_To_Support_Process 

These are all of the Support Processes to which the Transition transitions.

 
Instance VTYPE Support_Process  0:*   
Conditions 

These are all of the conditions that must be true for the related item to execute.

 
Instance VTYPE Condition  0:*   
Name 

This is an item that readers can identify for one another by referring to a single word, or phrase.

 
String VTYPE   1:1   
Transitioned_From_Step 

These are all of the Transitional Activities for which this is a Transition.

 
Instance VTYPE Transitional_Activity  0:*   
Attributes
Name Documentation Type Value
Item_Source 

This is the source for the information in this item.

 
Instance 
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
 
Aliases 

These are all of the other names by which this item goes.

 
Instance 
Alternative
Branch
Fork
 
Modeling Value 

This is value of including this item in the Enterprise Architecture.

 
String 
Transitions have roughly the same value as Transitional Activities and that they help identify areas that draw in whole suites of technologies that may not have been acknowledged as supporting the process in which the transition occures.
 
Examples 

These are examples of instances of this class.

 
String