BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• Why BPMN matters
• Overview of the BPMN Specification
• Evolution of BPMN Versions
• The relationship between BPMN and Business Modeling
• Key questions for practitioners using BPMN

Levels of model description in BPMN

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

Types of BPD diagrams

• Private Process
• Public Process
• Collaboration

The role of events

• Start and End Events
• Start and End Events in descriptive modeling
• Timer Intermediate Event in standard flows
• Link Event (off-page connector)

Activities as work items

• Tasks and their descriptive sub-types

Controlling flow

• XOR gate in descriptive modeling
• AND gate in descriptive modeling
• Uncontrolled flow

Flows within the diagram

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Additional diagram objects

• Associations
• Artifacts

Process diagram limits and boundaries

• Participants
• Lanes

Practical process construction

• Simplest sequential structures
• Creating negative paths
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Loops within a process
• Communication between processes
• Indicating unconditional waits
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronization between independent processes
• Modeling situations where “at least one condition is true”
• Analysis of process scenarios
• Process interruption