BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The importance of understanding BPMN
• Overview of the BPMN standard
• Evolution of BPMN versions
• Relationship between BPMN and business modeling
• Key considerations for practitioners working with BPMN

BPMN Model Description Levels

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

Types of BPD Diagrams

• Private Process
• Public Process
• Collaboration

Role of Events

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

Activities as Work

• Tasks and sub-types used in descriptive modeling

Flow Control Management

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

Flows within the Diagram

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Supplementary Diagram Objects

• Association
• Artifacts

Process Diagram Limits and Boundaries

• Participant
• Lane

Practical Process Construction

• Basic sequential steps within a process
• Defining negative paths
• Diagramming with and without actors
• Intra-process looping
• Inter-process communication
• Indicating unconditional waiting
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing independent processes
• Modeling scenarios where "at least one condition is true"
• Process scenario analysis
• Process interruption