Alec Sharp

Senior BPM practitioner and facilitator; founder of Clariteq Systems Consulting (≈30 years in practice as of 2014). Co-author with Patrick McDermott of Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development (Artech House, 2nd ed. 2008/2009) — widely used as a university text and a field best-seller.

Best known for:

TRAC (Trigger / Result / Activities / Cases) scoping model and the Process Summary Chart — the practitioner-favoured "one-pager" for as-is process framing.
The Six Enablers diagnostic framework (workflow design · information systems · motivation & measurement · human resources & organization · policies & rules · facilities) — developed independently of but similar to Roger Burlton's hexagon.
The stakeholder-lens question packs for initial assessment (customer / performer / owner-manager).
The "90 minutes is the new day" principle — tight-facilitation sessions that produce a Process Summary Chart + issue/goal table in one session.
Regular columnist at BPTrends (≥10 "Practitioner's Perspective" columns).

Complements the academic BPM canon (Dumas, Rosemann, vom Brocke) with a consulting-floor focus: how to actually run a session with executives and stakeholders who do not think in BPMN.

In the wiki

sources/2014-sharp-using-scope-models — TRAC, Process Summary Chart, three analysis approaches (chart-alone, activity decomposition, enabler/stakeholder assessment).
sources/2014-sharp-whats-wrong-with-this-process — initial + final assessment methodology; stakeholder question packs; six-enablers diagnostic framework.
Referenced from syntheses/interview-structuring-for-process-models (stakeholder question packs), syntheses/qualitative-discovery-method-selection-matrix (scope-first principle), concepts/six-enablers-framework.

methods/process-discovery-methods — Sharp's scoping + facilitated-session approach is an alternative/complement to Dumas's workshop-based discovery.
concepts/process-model-quality — "Why we really do process mapping" (Sharp 2014 Nov): a fact-based view to organise enabler assessment, not to document excruciating detail.