BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The importance of BPMN knowledge
• BPMN specifications
• BPMN versions
• BPMN in business modeling
• Key considerations for BPMN practitioners

BPMN model description levels

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

BPD diagram categories

• Private processes
• Public processes
• Collaboration diagrams

Event roles

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

Activities as work items

• Tasks for descriptive modeling sub-types

Flow control mechanisms

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

Diagram flows

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Supplementary diagram elements

• Associations
• Artifacts

Process boundaries and limits

• Participants
• Lanes

Practical process construction

• Basic sequential flows
• Constructing negative paths
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Loops within processes
• Inter-process communication
• Representing unconditional waits
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing between independent processes
• Modeling conditions where 'at least one is true'
• Process scenario analysis
• Process interruption