Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints
Assign tasks to resources based on constraints associated with the execution of tasks within the business process
Goel, K., Fehrer, T., Röglinger, M., & Wynn, M. T. (2023). Not Here, But There: Human Resource Allocation Patterns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 377–394).
Foundational free Patterns
Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
Order knock-outs by least effort and highest termination probability first.
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Avoid shared responsibilities for tasks by people from different functional units
Start implementing actions that can offset or counterbalance the environmental effects generated by business processes that cannot be changed.
Offer customers the possibility to serve themselves
Expertise-based task assignment
Match tasks to experts' specialized skills for efficiency
Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement
Workload-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload