BPMN 2.0 is the industry standard diagramming language for business process models. The meaning of the shapes and symbols is defined by a specification, independent of the tool employed. But creating models that communicate the process logic clearly and completely demands more than a dictionary of shapes and symbols. It also requires a methodology for properly structuring the process information and additional best practices specified as "style rules" that can be validated in a tool: Method and Style.
Based on training over 4000 students, this book zeroes in on the elements process modelers need to know in order to create Good BPMN: usage of the important shapes and symbols; the Method, a systematic procedure for translating process details gathered in stakeholder workshops into properly structured models that communicate the process logic clearly and completely; and style rules, additional conventions that make the process logic evident from the printed diagrams alone.
BPMN Quick and Easy Using Method and Style: Process Mapping Guidelines and Examples Using the Business Process Modeling Standard | Bruce Silver (Author)| Cody-Cassidy Press
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. WHAT IS BPMN?
Differences from swim lane flowcharts, The limits of BPMN, “How does a model mean?”, BPMN’s hidden conceptual framework.
Chapter 2. BPMN BY EXAMPLE
A simple order flow, A process model, Activity types, Process levels, Parallel split and join, Pools and lanes, Message flows and black-box pools, Start events and the process instance, Only three ways a process can start, The top-level diagram, The level 1 working set.
Chapter 3. THE METHOD
Outline of the method, Step 1: process model scope, Step 2: the high-level map, Top-level process diagram, Child-level diagrams, Context information, Method wizard, Structural correctness, Method recap.
Chapter 4. BPMN STYLE
The basic principle of bpmn style, The most important style rules.
Chapter 5. DMN AND DECISION TASKS
Bad BPMN: embedded decision logic, DMN basics, Integrating BPMN and DMN.
Chapter 6. PARALLEL FLOW
Conditionally parallel flow, Merging alternative paths, Merging parallel paths.
Chapter 7. EVENT
Intermediate event, Timer event, Message event, Error event, Event subprocess.
Chapter 8. INSTANCE ALIGNMENT
Loop activity, Multi-instance activity, Instance alignment with repeating activities, Multi-process structures, Handling batching in bpm, Using non-interrupting message event subprocesses.
Chapter 9. BECOMING PROFICIENT
BPMNPRO, Training and certification.
Index
About the author
LINK FOR THE BOOK
