Alternative Interoperability Between BPMn and Project Management Tools

Abstract

This article presents the proof of concept of a proposed architecture that allows building an environment to automate the activities of planning, monitoring and controlling of a project, from the integration of workflow tools and scheduling of project. In order to validate the architecture, it was implemented on the Intalio tool as a workflow and Open Project as a scheduling tool, the first being a business process management platform allowed the coherent integration of the process tasks towards the updating of the scheduling tool in real time. The proposed integration allows to feed a knowledge base from which the system automatically proposes a new timetable for the pending activities, according to the real progress of the project. This makes it easier for the project manager to visualize the real progress of the work, the optimal management of the time resources and the timely making of decisions that leads to the fulfilment of objectives, which, having a knowledge management base, becomes a support for the administration of future related and/or similar projects.