BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The importance of understanding BPMN
• BPMN specifications
• Evolution of BPMN versions
• BPMN's role in business modeling
• Key inquiries for BPMN practitioners

Model description levels in BPMN

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

BPD diagram categories

• Private process
• Public process
• Collaboration

Function of events

• Start and End Events
• Start and End Events applied in descriptive modeling
• Timer Intermediate Event within standard flow
• Link Event (off-page connector)

Activities as work

• Tasks utilized in descriptive modeling sub-types

Flow control mechanisms

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

Diagram flows

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Supplementary diagram objects

• Association
• Artifacts

Process diagram limits and boundaries

• Participant
• Lane

Practical process construction

• Simplest sequence within a process
• Constructing negative paths
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Looping mechanisms within a process
• Inter-process communication
• Representing unconditional waiting
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing between independent processes
• Modeling the condition where "at least one condition is true"
• Process scenario analysis
• Process interruption