Work Models

Grading: This assignment is worth 80 points total. I will be looking for accuracy, completeness, clarity, and good use of model elements. You may wish to consult the Guidelines for Assignments Containing Models. Include any breakdowns you find.  Remember that if you make any additional assumptions about the scenario, you should include them in your homework. Please be sure you follow the submission guidelines when you submit your assigments on the course Sakai site.

Scenario
This assignment is based on the SILS Travel Procedures. The scenario webpage includes

• a description of the procedures, 
• links to the 3 artifacts involved (Travel documentation, the SILS Conference or Professional Activity Leave and Travel Request Form (henceforth called the Request form), and the Travel Expense Reimbursement Form (henceforth called the Expense Form), and 
• interviews with the Assistant Dean for Administration (ADA) and the Contracts &Grants Specialist (C&GS).

This should be an overview model, meaning that you should represent actions, not all the very specific details. For example, you do not need to include a separate action for completing every line in the Request  Form. Instead, you can have a single action such as "Complete Request Form". Identify and annotate any breakdowns you observe in the process.
Hints:

• What happens if the traveler doesn't have enough funds for the estimated cost of the trip?
• Is there any process that has to be repeated?
• What signatures are required?

Presenting papers is very important. Lab members attending a conference to present a paper will always receive full funding for their travel. 

Attending workshops to learn about new research and discuss current policies or practices is somewhat important. Lab members attending a workshop at a conference held in the United States will receive full funding. They will receive full funding for a workshop at a conference held outside of the U.S. if they have only attended 0 or 1 conferences already in the current fiscal year (FY). Members who have attended more than 1 conference during the FY will receive partial support for a workshop outside the U.S. 

Participation in any other conference activities, including just listening, learning, and meeting people, is helpful, but isn't as high a funding priority.  Lab members will receive partial funding.

If someone is attending a conference for multiple purposes, he or she will be funded at the highest applicable funding level. For example, someone attending a non-US conference to attend a workshop and to participate in a committee meeting will be funded at the appropriate workshop level.

Recall the various types of annotation that can appear in an artifact model. Annotations may identify the purpose or intent of something in the artifact, may point out a confusion or breakdown, or may highlight useful or helpful aspects of the artifact.
Among other things, you may wish to consider:

• the purpose(s) of the artifact, and how well it supports them
• the workflow in which the artifact is embedded, and how well it supports it
• the source and destination of the artifact
• the flow and organization of the artifact
• ease of use of the artifact by all its users
• the automation boundary
• assumptions behind its use, e.g., what does the user need to know?
• responsibilities of those using the artifact
• relationships with associated artifacts and tasks
• the policies and customs the artifact expresses