Using an old technique in a new technology — A novel method for defining the scope of ISs in BPM projects

Nowadays, using business process management (BPM) systems is so prevalent through the world, so that deploying information systems (IS) based on this technology has become one of the application development methods in the new age of software engineering. Due to acquisition and using this technology in many organizations without awareness or program, that is the main reason which would fail this type of projects, we are looking for an efficient method in order to grain information systems, based on organization´s business processes for the sake of defining the scope of their related software development projects, in the shortest time and with the lowest cost. We have started our scientific researches on this field in a few projects with the nature of information technology (IT) planning and gained noteworthy results that one of them is described in this paper as a case study. This new method will be used as the first step in defining project portfolios according to BPM approach, and in some actions like enterprise architecture (EA) or IT/IS planning.