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title: Alec Sharp
type: entity
tags: [bpm, practitioner, consultant, facilitation, process-modelling]
sources: ["[[sources/2014-sharp-using-scope-models]]", "[[sources/2014-sharp-whats-wrong-with-this-process]]"]
created: 2026-04-16
updated: 2026-04-16
---

# 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]].

## Related
- [[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.