Pool, Lane
The process participants are represented in the form of a (swimming) pool, and a pool can be divided into several (swim) lanes. Pools and lanes represent responsibilities for activities and can be processes, organizations, roles, or systems. You can also display several pools in one chart.
What or who is represented by a pool and how many pools are modeled in a diagram depends on the one hand on the type of process (private or public), on the other hand, whether it is a single process or the inter-organizational or inter-disciplinary interaction of several processes is.
To represent the flow of a single process that runs only within an organization (private business process), only a single pool is represented that represents that process (and therefore has to be labeled with the process name). The responsibilities for the individual process steps are represented within the pool by means of (nested) lanes.
If, on the other hand, a collaboration – that is, the coordinated interplay of two or more processes that are not subject to central control and communicate by means of message exchange – is displayed, two or more pools are modeled in which these processes take place. In cross-organizational collaboration, the pools represent the participating partners (e.g., companies, customers, suppliers) and are capable of labeling; In intra-organizational collaborations, the pools represent either private processes or technical systems. Often only the detailed processes of the own organization, but not those of the participating partners are known. Therefore, a pool can also be displayed in a closed state (black box).
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