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
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Foundational free Patterns
Buffer external information and subscribe to updates
Let workers perform as many steps as possible for single cases
Elevate physical constraints by applying new technology
Delegate and optimize your operations
Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources
Offer a green alternative with the same outcome, utilizing different steps, resources, or partners, while retaining the previous existing process
Reassign tasks along the organisational hierarchy
Performance-based task assignment
Allocate tasks based on past performance: execution time and success
Delegate tasks according to resource cost
Constraint-based task assignment
Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints