BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The value of understanding BPMN
• The BPMN Specification
• Evolution of BPMN versions
• Relationship between BPMN and Business Modeling
• Fundamental questions for practitioners using BPMN

Levels of description of a model in BPMN

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

BPD diagram types

• Private Process
• Public Process
• Collaboration

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)

Activity as work

• Tasks and their descriptive Sub-types in modeling

Controlling Flow Control

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

Flows in the diagram

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Additional objects in the diagram

• Association
• Artifacts

Limits and boundaries process diagram

• Participant
• Lane

Practical construction process

• Basic sequence within a process
• Constructing a negative path
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Implementing loops within a process
• Inter-process communication
• Indicating unconditional waiting
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing between independent processes
• Modeling the scenario “at least one condition is true”
• Analyzing process scenarios
• Handling process interruption