At the BPMN Workshop in Lucerne two weeks ago I presented a talk called “Fulfilling the Promises of BPMN 2.0.” The basic point was that the BPMN 2.0 specification by itself is insufficient to deliver on the standard’s two most fundamental promises: first, as a semantically precise process notation, that the meaning of the depicted [...]
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Visio Premium’s BPMN template is a drawing tool for BPMN diagrams, not a true modeling tool that internally understands the BPMN metamodel. It does provide a validation feature that uses Visio 2010′s new Validation API to check the diagram against the rules of the BPMN 1.2 spec, and that is helpful. But deep down, the [...]
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I’ve been working recently on tools to help BPMN 2.0 tool vendors more effectively interchange process models. (We’re starting at absolute zero, so almost anything is an improvement.) In a way the work is similar to that previously reported re the rules of BPMN, but the earlier work was aimed at helping process modelers [...]
The whole reason for BPMN’s existence is to provide a notation that is outwardly familiar to flowcharters but has precise semantics and rules as demanded by analysts, architects, and developers. Nevertheless, the BPMN 2.0 spec fails to offer a business-understandable definition of its most basic concepts… starting with “process”. What does BPMN mean by a [...]
A few updates on my Method and Style validation tools… The one that works on the BPMN 2.0 export from itp commerce requires Service Release 5 of their tool. My apologies to those who tried to get it to work with SR4. The good news is that SR5 beta is available from the training area [...]
I read somewhere that it was possible to chain xslt’s together, so I thought it was worth a try to combine the Visio-to-BPMN transform and the BPMN validator into a single operation. And it worked! So now you can do Method and Style validation directly on diagrams created with the BPMN template in Visio Premium [...]
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