BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The value of knowing BPMN
• BPMN Specification
• BPMN Versions
• BPMN and Business Modeling
• Key questions for BPMN practitioners

Levels of description in BPMN modeling

• 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 Events in normal flow
• Link Events (off-page connectors)

Activity as work

• Tasks used in descriptive modeling sub-types

Controlling Flow Control

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

Flows in the diagram

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Additional objects in the diagram

• Association
• Artifacts

Process diagram limits and boundaries

• Participant
• Lane

Practical process construction

• The simplest sequence within a process
• Creating negative paths
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Loops within a process
• Communication between processes
• Indicating unconditional waiting
• Synchronization of independent paths within a process
• Synchronization between independent processes
• Describing scenarios where "at least one condition is true"
• Analysis of process scenarios
• Process interruption