A method for monitoring a business process, comprising modeling the business process to obtain a business process model including IT activities and non-IT activities; auto-defining an activity state dependency table for the non-IT activities; monitoring states of said IT activities; and monitoring, by referring to said activity state dependency table, states of said non-IT activities. By implementing the present invention, all the activities (including IT and non-IT activities) in the business process can be monitored, so that it is convenient for a user to know a status of the overall business process. In addition, the present invention utilizes visual text, icon, video and audio to display the activities and their states, which is helpful for the user to monitor and understand the status of the business process.