What we need is something that can give us the benefits without constraining the user to a fixed plan. CP is not concerned with how the processes are enacted, but rather how processes are discovered, designed in the first place, and subsequently updated. The graphical description then becomes a way to explain plans and status to others. Plans can be changed at any time and can be specialized for different groups. Plan binding allows a single process to be composed of a collection of plans each from different people.
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Collaborative Planning, a meta-process for work process evolution, might be an important ingredient in the success of Business Process technology. Keith Swenson is a software architect for Fujitsu Open Systems Solutions, Inc. in San Jose. He has 14 years of experience in developing group-oriented personal software. As head of the Regatta Project, he leads a team in a development of business process modeling and enactment software technology.