BPMN for Business Users Training Course

Introduction

• The importance of BPMN knowledge
• The BPMN Specification
• BPMN Versioning
• BPMN in the context of Business Modeling
• Key considerations for those working with BPMN

Levels of Model Description in BPMN

• Descriptive BPMN
• Analytical BPMN

Types of BPD Diagrams

• Private Process
• Public Process
• Collaboration

The Role of Events

• Start and End Events
• Use of Start and End Events in descriptive modelling
• Intermediate Timer Events in standard flows
• Link Events (off-page connectors)

Activities as Work

• Tasks and their sub-types in descriptive modelling

Flow Control Management

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

Diagram Flows

• Sequence flow
• Message flow

Supplementary Diagram Objects

• Associations
• Artifacts

Process Diagram Limits and Boundaries

• Participants
• Lanes

Practical Process Construction

• Basic sequential processes
• Creating negative paths
• Diagrams with and without actors
• Loops within a process
• Inter-process communication
• Representing unconditional waiting
• Synchronising independent paths within a process
• Synchronisation between independent processes
• Modelling scenarios where 'at least one condition is true'
• Analysis of process scenarios
• Process interruption