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Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

Assign tasks to people based on their workload, which refers to the number of task instances started but not yet completed by a person

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).

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Deploy extra resources

If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Parallelize activities

Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel

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Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

Workload-based task assignment

Allocate tasks based on individuals' incomplete workload

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

Department-based assignment

Distribute tasks by interdepartmental interactions to enable or restrict involvement

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Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

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