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 [...]
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 [...]
[This post describes an approach to integrating the Decsion model of von Halle and Goldberg with process modeling in BPMN. For Part 1, click here.]
Before describing the integration of decision modeling with BPMN, I need to summarize the Decision Model approach described by Barb von Halle and Larry Goldberg in their excellent book. I can’t [...]
Continue reading about Integrating Process and Rules – Part 2
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 [...]
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, [...]
No other topic in the BPM arena has suffered from more misinformation, disinformation, and willful ignorance as the relationship between business process and business rules. These two disciplines are most often put forward as alternative approaches, rather than complementary aspects of managing the business. In reality, business process management (BPM) and business decision management (BDM) [...]
Continue reading about Integrating Process and Rules – Part 1
A reader asked me to comment on an interesting paper by the European BPM academics Mendling, Reijers, and van der Aalst entitled Seven Process Modeling Guidelines (7PMG). Like my book BPMN Method and Style, 7PMG is asking the right question: what are the principles of style that improve a model’s chance “(1) to become comprehensible to [...]
I know many of you are planning to put learning BPMN at the top of your 2010 resolutions list. Well, if you’re not, you should be! Travel is hard these days, but you’re in luck. I’m going to be offering my BPMN training in a virtual classroom format – live, interactive, delivered over the Internet, [...]
Continue reading about BPMN Method and Style Virtual Classroom – Jan 25-28
[My August column on BPMInstitute.org]
BPMS Watch readers know I am a big fan of OMG’s Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0, which has passed its first approval hurdle and is now in the Finalization Task Force stage. A major reason is that for the first time, BPMN has standardized the schema for XML interchange of [...]
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