Index
T
Task assignment, 21, 54, 59–61, 72
in computer science, 80
Task dependencies, 102–103
Task Manager, 530
Task-resource dependencies, managing of, 91–96, 105
Taskscomposition of, 106
and coordination, 90–91
and managing dependencies among multiple tasks and resources, 96–102
dependencies between, 102–103
as developing shared understanding, 107–108
and resources, 52
Task-subtask dependencies, managing of, 57–58, 60, 72
TAXIS (modeling language), 157
Taxonomy(ies)of actions or verbs, 249–50
of commitment types, 428–29, 430
of components, 516
of conflict management meta-process, 457
of conflicts, 452–55
of coordination methods or mechanisms, 104, 106–107, 426–28
and design handbook of software interconnection, 122
of dependencies, 86, 104, 106, 113
and design handbook of software interconnection, 122
flow dependencies, 114–18
evaluation of, 107
of exception handlers, 432, 433
of exception types, 253, 256, 429, 431
genre, 466, 468–73, 492–93 (see also Genre taxonomy)knowledge base in, 426
or order processes, 150
Taxonomy(ies) (cont.)of organizational actions, 374
of organizations, 22
of processes, 450–51
of relationships, 88
of resources, 297–300
of software interconnection problems and solutions, 113–14
of specialization, 458
Team arrangements, 87
Team theory, 81
Technological structures, 201–202
Template-oriented component hierarchy, 516
Templates for describing activities, 26
Terminators, in dataflow diagram, 145
Textbook models, 242
Thank you note genre, 482
Theories, multiple, 190
Theory of organizational processes, development of, 189
Time, coordination aspects related to, 478–79
Time conflict management technique, 461
Timing, of genre/genre system, 482
Timing dependencies, 114, 294, 323–32, 505
Top-down approach, 31
Top-down goal decomposition, 57–58, 72
Total process aggregation, 147
Total quality management, 13, 285, 401–402
Total simulations, Boeing, 21, 388, 408
Trade-off matrix(ices), 18, 19, 365–66, 417
Trade-off table(s), 385, 387, 405, 406
in case example (business process redesign), 398
for [mockup how?] bundle, 451
in sample Handbook entry, 228–29
Trade Wave, 397
Transaction cost theory, 80
and resource allocation, 53
Transfer, management of, 55–56
Transfer dependencies, 182, 358
Transformationsabstracting, 137
for dataflow diagrams, 168–73
for state diagrams, 139
generalizing, 137, 161
process as, 179
refining, 137
for dataflow diagrams, 147–49, 168–73
for state diagrams, 139, 164–66
specializing, 136–38, 161
completeness of, 164
for dataflow diagrams, 147–49
and process specialization, 156
and SAP customization, 156
for state diagrams, 139–40, 166
Transient flows, 321
Transient memoryless events, 312
Transient prerequisites, 307, 311
Transportability of resources, 298
Transportation costs, effect of changes on, 66
Trust of information, and genres in electronic medium, 479
Typology. See Taxonomy(ies)