OCEB2 OMG Certified Expert in BPM - Business Intermediate Exam Preparation Training Course

Intermediate Business Motivational Modeling

• Modeling business, moving up from Fundamental level: Ends, Means, Influencers, Assessments
• Organization Unit (in the BMM sense)
• Business Process, Business Rule
• constructing BMM models and interpreting (brief) scenarios

Business Process Modeling with BPMN

• Advanced BP modeling with BPMN:
  • Advanced event types
  • Links & GoTos
  • Compensation
  • Complex Activity Inputs and Outputs
  • Exception Handling
  • Iteration/Repetition/Looping
  • Grouping activities into SubProcesses
  • Data object (including Lifecycle and Accessibility)
  • Data store, data input, and data output
  • Global Task and Global Process
  • Conversations
  • Choreography
  • Execution Semantics

Decision Management and Modeling with DMN

• DMN Basic Concepts, and Scope and Uses
• Decision Requirements
• Relating Decision Logic to Decision Requirements
• Decision Tables
• Relation of DMN to BPMN

Business Rules Approach and Shared Business-Wide Vocabulary

• Noun Concepts and Business Rules (BR) vocabulary
• BR Basics
• Two types of BR
• BR and Business Processes
• Creating and using Process-Specific Business Rules
• Advantages of a shared business-wide vocabulary (SBVR Awareness)

Business Process Management Knowledge and Skills

• BP Project Management
  • Activity Lifecycle
  • Ownership of Processes
• Measurement and Optimization
  • CSFs and KPIs
  • Business Activity Monitoring
  • Scorecarding
  • Process Simulation and Optimization
  • BPM ROI
  • Model Value Analysis (When to model, and when not to)
  • BPMS Tool fundamentals
  • BPM Center of Excellence basics
  • Organizational Change Management

Process Quality and Governance Frameworks

• Questions at the Intermediate exam go one level deeper into the scope, goals, and structure of these major frameworks:
  • SOX, COBIT, and ITIL
• Frameworks for Process Improvement:
  • OMG's Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM)
  • 6 Sigma, LEAN