Overview 

This course has been created for business analysts who want to use BPMN 2.0 extensively in their projects.

It focuses on practical aspects of all BPMN 2.0 specification as well as implementations of common pattes.

It is a series of short lectures followed by exercises: the delegates will have a problem described in English, and will have to create a proper diagram for each problem. After that, the diagrams will be discussed and assessed by the group and the trainer.

This course doesn't cover execution part of BPMN, it focuses on analysis and process design aspects of BPMN

Course Outline

BPMN 2.0 in context of Business Process Management

Business Process definition

How to model Business Process

Sub-model Types of Processes

Choreographies

Collaborations

Conversations

Modeling Orchestration

Private non-executable (inteal) business process

Private executable (inteal) business process

Public processes

Basic BPMN Symbols in Examples

Activity

Gateways

Events

Sequence Flow

Message

Artifacts

Modeling Collaboration

Pool, Participants

Lanes

Message Flow

How to model messages

Process Design

Activities

Activity vs Task

Human Interactions

Types of Tasks

Sub-Process

Call Activity

Loop Characteristics and Multi-Instance

Items and Data

Data Modeling

Events

Concepts

Start and End Events

Intermediate Events

Trigger

Types of Events

Message

Timer

Error

Escalation

Cancel

Compensation

Link

Gateways

Sequence Flow Considerations

Exclusive Gateway

Inclusive Gateway

Parallel Gateway

Event-Based Gateway

Parallel Event-Based Gateway

Complex Gateway

Compensation

Compensation Handler

Compensation Triggering

Relationship between Error Handling and Compensation

Transaction

Transaction definition

Transaction outcomes

success

error

cancel

Choreography

Choreography vs Orchestration

Sequence Flow

Events

Gateways

Conversation

Conversation

Conversation Link