BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The importance of understanding BPMN
• The BPMN specification
• Evolution of BPMN versions
• The relationship between BPMN and business modeling
• Key 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
• Timer Intermediate Event in standard flows
• Link Events (off-page connectors)

Activities as work units

• Tasks used in descriptive modeling sub-types

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 boundaries and limits

• Participant
• Lane

Practical process construction

• Basic sequence structures within a process
• Creating negative paths
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Implementing loops within a process
• Inter-process communication
• Representing unconditional waiting
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing between independent processes
• Modeling the condition 'at least one is true'
• Analysis of process scenarios
• Process interruption