BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The importance of understanding BPMN
• The BPMN Specification
• BPMN Versioning
• BPMN and Business Modeling
• Key questions for BPMN practitioners

Levels of Model Description in BPMN

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

BPD Diagram Types

• Private Process
• Public Process
• Collaboration

The Role of Events

• Start and End Events
• Start and End Events for Descriptive Modeling
• Timer Intermediate Event in Normal Flow
• Link Event (Off-page Connector)

Activity as Work

• Tasks for Descriptive Sub-type Modeling

Flow Control Management

• XOR Gate in Descriptive Modeling
• AND Gate in Descriptive Modeling
• Uncontrolled Flow

Flows in Diagrams

• Sequence Flow
• Message Flow

Additional Diagram Objects

• Association
• Artifacts

Process Diagram Limits and Boundaries

• Participant
• Lane

Practical Process Construction

• Simplest Sequence in a Process
• Creating a Negative Path
• Diagrams with and without Actors
• Looping within a Process
• Communication between Processes
• Indicating Unconditional Waiting
• Synchronizing Independent Paths within a Process
• Synchronizing between Independent Processes
• Modeling the Condition “at Least One Condition is True”
• Analyzing Process Scenarios
• Process Interruption