BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The value of understanding BPMN
• The BPMN standard
• Evolutions in BPMN versions
• BPMN in the context of business modeling
• Key questions for BPMN practitioners

Model description levels in BPMN

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

Types of BPD diagrams

• Private Process
• Public Process
• Collaboration

The function of events

• Initiating and concluding events
• Start and End Events applied in descriptive modeling
• Timer Intermediate Event within standard flows
• Link Events (off-page connectors)

Activities as work units

• Tasks utilized in descriptive sub-type modeling

Flow control mechanisms

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

Flows within diagrams

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Supplementary diagram objects

• Association
• Artifacts

Process diagram limits and boundaries

• Participant
• Lane

Practical process construction

• Simplest sequence within a process
• Developing negative paths
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Cycles within a process
• Inter-process communication
• Indicating unconditional waits
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing independent processes
• Representing 'at least one condition is true' scenarios
• Evaluating process scenarios
• Process interruption