BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The importance of understanding BPMN
• Overview of the BPMN Specification
• Evolution of BPMN versions
• The relationship between BPMN and Business Modeling
• Fundamental questions for BPMN practitioners

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
• Application of Start and End Events in descriptive modeling
• Intermediate Timer Events in standard flows
• Link Events (off-page connectors)

Activities as work units

• Tasks and their sub-types in descriptive modeling

Flow Control Management

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

Diagram flows

• Sequence flows
• Message flows

Supplementary diagram objects

• Associations
• Artifacts

Process diagram boundaries and limits

• Participants
• Lanes

Practical process construction

• Identifying the simplest sequence within a process
• Constructing negative paths
• Modeling diagrams with and without actors
• Implementing loops within a process
• Establishing communication between processes
• Representing unconditional waiting states
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Coordinating independent processes
• Modeling scenarios where "at least one condition is true"
• Analyzing process scenarios
• Handling process interruptions