Work process

The AtlantisBPnet Method has established a process of identification and analysis of a project to guaranties the quality of projects proposed as study cases, and finally labelled as Best Practices.

First AtlantisBPnet and now, ObservatoriumBPnet, divides all their agents in four roles:

• Observer. Identifies IS projects and proposes them for being evaluated as Best Practices.
• Analyst. It analyses the projects according a list of indicators. Two analysts are assigned per project, according some selection criterion.
• Mediator. Another type of analyst, it mediates when two analysts disagree about a project.
• Validator. After its evaluation, it approves the final qualification of a project as “Information Society Best Practice”.

The process of work follows next scheme:

See the Chart of process of work

• An Observer identifies a project which corresponds to ObservatoriumBPnet understanding of Information Society Project. So, the Observer fills the Data template and sends the project to be evaluated by the ObservatoriumBPnet Network.
• ObservatoriumBPnet assigns automatically two independent analysts. If they accept the project, they analyse the project filling an online form. The Observatory Network saves partial evaluations and results.
• If both analysts agree that the project is a Best Practice, it is sent to a Validator to approve evaluations and update the project on Internet Data Base as Best Practices.
• If analyst disagrees about the project, a Mediator takes part and tries to achieve an agreement with analyst about final result. If finally both, the Mediator and partial analysts, think that the project is a Best Practice, this passes to Validator’s phase. In other case, the project is send to debugging.

So, the project is analysed and approved by at least two independent people, which provides a quality guarantee for evaluation.

Also, the process of work is managed automatically by a computer system. Anybody intervenes on analysis process. This provides an additional independence guarantee to the Method.