Work Distribution Patterns

Distributing work/tasks to employees in the most effective way is a central capability of TIBCO® BPM.

An exaustive list of business situations has been described by the Workflow Patterns initiative at  http://www.workflowpatterns.com/patterns/resource/index.php and should cover the requirements you may have to face with business when dealing with "sending" tasks to the "correct" people.

The following patterns are supported by TIBCO BPM work distribution:

WRP-01: Direct Distribution

WRP-02: Role-Based Distribution

WRP-03: Deferred Distribution

WRP-04: Authorization

WRP-05: Separation of Duties

WRP-06: Case Handling

WRP-07: Retain Familiar

WRP-08: Capability-Based Distribution

WRP-09: History-Based Distribution

WRP-10: Organisational Distribution

WRP-11: Automatic Execution

WRP-12: Distribution by Offer - Single Resource

WRP-13: Distribution by Offer - Multiple Resources

WRP-14: Distribution by Allocation - Single Resource

WRP-15: Random Allocation

WRP-16: Round Robin Allocation

WRP-17: Shortest Queue

WRP-19: Distribution on Enablement

WRP-20: Late Distribution

WRP-21: Resource-Initiated Allocation

WRP-22: Resource-Initiated Execution - Allocated Work Item

WRP-23: Resource-Initiated Execution - Offered Work Item

WRP-24: System-Determined Work Queue Content

WRP-25: Resource-Determined Work Queue Content

WRP-26: Selection Autonomy

WRP-27: Delegation

WRP-28: Escalation

WRP-29: Deallocation

WRP-30: Stateful Reallocation

WRP-31: Stateless Reallocation

WRP-32: Suspension/Resumption

WRP-33: Skip

WRP-34: ReDo

WRP-35: Pre-Do

WRP-36: Commencement on Creation

WRP-37: Commencement on Allocation

WRP-38: Piled Execution

WRP-39: Chained Execution

WRP-40: Configurable Unallocated Work Item Visibility

WRP-41: Configurable Allocated Work Item Visibility

WRP-42: Simultaneous Execution

WRP-43: Additional Resources