BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The importance of understanding BPMN
• Overview of the BPMN Specification
• Evolutions and versions of BPMN
• The relationship between BPMN and Business Modeling
• Key concepts 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
• Application of Start and End Events in descriptive modeling
• Timer Intermediate Events in standard flows
• Link Events (off-page connectors)

Activities as work units

• Use of Tasks in descriptive modeling and sub-types

Flow control management

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

Flows within diagrams

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Supplementary diagram objects

• Associations
• Artifacts

Process diagram limits and boundaries

• Participants
• Lanes

Practical process construction

• Simplest sequences within a process
• Creating negative paths
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Implementing loops within a process
• Communication between distinct processes
• Indicating unconditional waits
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing across independent processes
• Describing scenarios where “at least one condition is true”
• Analyzing process scenarios
• Process interruption