BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The importance of understanding BPMN
• The BPMN Specification
• Evolution of BPMN versions
• BPMN in the context of Business Modeling
• Key questions for BPMN practitioners

Model description levels in BPMN

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

BPD diagram types

• Private Process
• Public Process
• Collaboration

Role of events

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

Activities representing work

• Tasks and their descriptive sub-types in modeling

Flow control management

• 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 sequences within a process
• Creating negative paths
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Looping mechanisms within a process
• Inter-process communication
• Representing unconditional waiting
• Synchronization of independent paths in a process
• Synchronization between independent processes
• Modeling scenarios where "at least one condition is true"
• Analyzing process scenarios
• Process interruption