20080313025 | Designed Process Testing Method - A method for identifying deficiencies in a new or improved designed process comprising the steps of collecting implementation data pertaining to agents, resources, environment and strategy associated with the designed process, identifying a historical event to serve as a context for evaluating the designed process, compiling historical event data for the historical event, including information pertaining to agents, resources, environment, strategy and outcomes associated with the historical event, defining a model space for a simulation based on the implementation data and the historical event data, defining a performance requirement for the simulation, and conducting the simulation within the model space. The model space definition comprises a plurality of roles each having a predefined character set. During the simulation, human role players perform acts and carry out steps or functions in accordance with the predefined character sets. Participants in or monitors of the simulation identify results in respect to achieving the performance requirement, as well as deficiencies that are at least in part responsible for the results. When there are multiple parties responsible for developing, managing and carrying out the newly designed process, the present invention produces consensus and shared understanding among those multiple parties and facilitates developing corrective actions for the identified deficiencies. | 12-18-2008 |