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
Consider automating activities
Eliminate unnecessary activities
Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties
Form cross-department teams for end-to-end case handling.
Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow
Minimize numerical involvement
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Move activities to more appropriate places
Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Workload-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload