BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• Why BPMN proficiency is essential
• Overview of the BPMN Specification
• BPMN Versions
• The relationship between BPMN and Business Modeling
• Key considerations for professionals working with BPMN

Levels of description in BPMN models

• 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 normal flows
• Link Event (off-page connector)

Activity as work

• Tasks and their sub-types in descriptive modeling

Controlling Flow Control

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

Flows within diagrams

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Additional objects in diagrams

• Association
• Artifacts

Limits and boundaries of process diagrams

• Participant
• Lane

Practical construction process

• Simplest sequences within a process
• Creating a negative path
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Looping mechanisms within a process
• Communication between processes
• Indicating unconditional waiting
• Synchronizing independent paths within a process
• Synchronizing between independent processes
• Describing situations where “at least one condition is true”
• Analysis of process scenarios
• Process interruption