bruce on January 13th, 2010

Thanks to all of you who took my BPMN Self-Test.  BPMN, today accepted as the universal process modeling standard, is outwardly familiar — it looks like traditional swimlane flowcharts — but few people really know how to use it effectively. That’s what I try to teach in my book and the BPMessentials training. The self-test [...]

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bruce on January 7th, 2010

There has been a good response to the BPMN self-test.  The scores have been lower than I expected, but I have gotten nice feedback from the answer sheet and expanations I send out afterward.  It’s fair to say that while the diagram patterns in question describe common business scenarios, they probably represent the part of [...]

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bruce on January 4th, 2010

I am a little surprised at the scores on my BPMN self-test.  Ten questions, four diagrams each, one of which is the correct answer.  The scenarios are typical from real-world processes, and most of the patterns should be used routinely in process models.  A couple of questions are a little hard, but I would have [...]

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bruce on December 29th, 2009

I saw a link a couple days ago for a BPMN self-test, and thought I’d try it out.  The test, available to anyone, is “part of a research project by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven on the understanding of BPMN Process Models.”  It’s harmless I suppose, but – to my way of thinking, [...]

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