BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The value of understanding BPMN
• BPMN Specification details
• Evolution of BPMN versions
• BPMN’s role in Business Modeling
• Key considerations for BPMN practitioners

Levels of Model Description in BPMN

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

BPD Diagram Categories

• Private Process
• Public Process
• Collaboration

The Function of Events

• Start and End Events
• Start and End Events in descriptive modeling
• Timer Intermediate Events in standard workflows
• Link Events (off-page connectors)

Activities as Work Units

• Tasks and their sub-types in descriptive modeling

Managing Flow Control

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

Flow Types in Diagrams

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Supplementary Diagram Objects

• Association
• Artifacts

Process Boundaries and Limits

• Participant
• Lane

Practical Process Construction

• Defining basic sequences within a process
• Constructing negative pathways
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Implementing loops within a process
• Inter-process communication
• Representing unconditional waiting
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing across independent processes
• Modeling 'at least one condition true' scenarios
• Analysis of process scenarios
• Handling process interruptions