BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The rationale for learning BPMN
• BPMN Specification
• BPMN Versions
• BPMN in the context of Business Modeling
• Key considerations for professionals working with BPMN

BPMN Model Description Levels

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

BPD Diagram Types

• Private Process
• Public Process
• Collaboration

The Role of Events

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

Activities as Work Units

• Tasks and their sub-types in descriptive modeling

Flow Control Management

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

Diagram Flows

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Supplementary Diagram Objects

• Associations
• Artifacts

Process Diagram Limits and Boundaries

• Participants
• Lanes

Practical Process Construction

• Identifying the simplest sequences within a process
• Defining negative paths
• Creating diagrams with and without actors
• Implementing loops within a process
• Facilitating communication between processes
• Representing unconditional waits
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing independent processes
• Modeling scenarios where “at least one condition is true”
• Analyzing process scenarios
• Handling process interruptions