On–Demand Business Analysis Training

Introduction to the Business Process Modeling Notation

At A Glance | BPMN for the Business Analyst

Through this information-packed, online and self-directed course, students are given an intensive introduction to how to use the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for practical business process and workflow modeling/mapping.

Other BPMN training and publications take the ¨more is better¨ approach and combine everything from basic process modeling and notation to sophisticated process analysis and simulation techniques all in one training course. This approach to learning the BPMN wastes valuable time and overloads students with too much information that isn’t readily usable. Enterprise Agility’s targeted approach is different because it focuses on just the skills required to master the particular focus of each course.

This course covers all the key notational elements of BPMN which provide the core value for individuals doing business process and/or workflow modeling. But rather than simply teaching the notation, students learn to use the BPMN to model the most common business process situations, including:

Ad-hoc processes
Concurrent processes
Process decompostion
Cross-organizational processes
Complex decisioning
Event-driven processes

This course is not dependent upon, or based on any vendor’s software. The approaches and techniques taught in the course are vendor neutral and not focused on a specific technology or methodology.

Click here to view the Course Syllabus.
Click here to view IIBA BA BoK and ABPMP CBPM BoK alignment.

Learn BPMN from the Experts

Enterprise Agility is a voting member of the Object Management Group (OMG) and a contributor to the BPMN 2.0 version of the standard.

Anatomy of the Course

Body of Knowledge Alignment

IIBA
The International Institute of Business Analysis (www.theIIBA.org) | Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BA BoK).

The Introduction to Business Process Modeling Notation is aligned with the Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area within the BA BoK 1.6 and 2.0.

ABPMP
Association of Business Process Management Professionals (www.ABPMP.org) | Business Process Management Common Body of Knowledge (BPM CBoK)

The Introduction to Business Process Modeling Notation is aligned with the Process Modeling Knowledge Area within the BPM CBoK 2.0.

Certificate of Completion

Students receive Enterprise Agility’s Certification of Completion for this course. The course is within Enterprise Agility’s Business Engineering Certification Program.

Course Syllabus

What is BPMN?

Overview:

Provides an understanding of what makes the BPMN standard unique and valuable as well as how it relates to existing related standards.
Content:
-Defining BPMN
-BPMN as a Standard
-The BPMN Value Proposition
-Forms of Notation
-Notation and Semantics
What you will learn:
-What makes BPMN a valuable skill for organizations to develop and how it fits into an automation effort.

Understanding BPMN

Overview:
Details each of the major elements within BPMN describing the way they are represented, their behavior, and general information about how and when they are used.
Content:
-Elements of BPMN Notation
-Connectors in BPMN Notation
-A Basic Process
-Activities
-Sequence Flows
-Events
-Gateways
-Branching and Merging
What you will learn:
-What the key notation elements mean and how they communicate business behavior.

BPMN for Smart Modelers

Overview:
Examines 5 common process modeling scenarios and discusses the issues with each of these scenarios and how BPMN can be used to model these. Provides illustrated examples for each of these scenarios.
Content:
-Dealing with Abstraction
-Dealing with Concurrency
-Dealing with Ad-Hoc
-Dealing with Responsibility
-Dealing with User Delays and Errors
What you will learn:
-What the most common issues are with process modeling and the implications of not properly modeling them.
-Areas where organizations will need to define their own standards to define supporting process aspects that are not specified by BPMN or where BPMN provides multiple approaches.

Advanced BPMN Anatomy

Overview:
Reviews elements of BPMN that are less commonly used and either have semantics that are specific to Transactional Processing or other technology elements or are visualization-only elements which have no defined semantics.
Content:
-Dealing with Transactions
-Terminate Events
-Cancel Events
-Compensation Flows
-Automation Support
-The Service Task
-Using Artifacts
-Using Links
What you will learn:
-How to model situations that involved transactional automation.
-How to annotate modeling diagrams with BPMN to enhance their readability and value.
-How to capture elements of a process that provide information even though they have no semantics within BPMN.

What's left for BPMN?

Overview:
Identifies several key business scenarios where BPMN is currently limited in its ability to provide modeling support. The current status of these issues within the BPMN 2.0 standards effort is also reviewed to provide guidance for planning purposes.
Content:
-Limitations: Thing you can't do with BPMN
-Future: Non-Interrupting Exceptions and Human Task Improvement
What you will learn:
- Which business scenarios are currently difficult to represent with the BPMN notation.
- What’s in store for BPMN modelers in future version of the standard.