BPMN for Analysts Training Course
This course focuses on imparting practical expertise and developing BPMN modeling skills at intermediate and advanced levels.
The target audience includes business analysts who specialize in discovering, identifying, gathering, and analyzing user requirements for systems, as well as advanced computer application developers and system architects interested in designing business processes, systems, and custom integrations.
The course does not cover executable-level BPMN.
Training is delivered primarily through computer-based instruction (~90%). Participants learn to translate real-world business scenarios into Business Process Diagrams (BPD) and interpret diagrams to assess their practical utility.
This is a highly intensive, practical course. Theoretical aspects of BPMN are not addressed.
This course is available as onsite live training in Slovakia or online live training.Course Outline
Introduction
- Starting the process
- Process completion
- Tasks and simple workflows
- Sending a message
- Receiving a message
- Specifying SCRIPT type
- Specifying TASK type
Subprocess
- Activity invocation
- Ad-hoc subprocess
- Transactional subprocess
Start Events
- Message
- Periodic process start
- Signal
- Conditional
- Start process with one of n events
- Multiple start events
End Events
- Message
- Signal
- Error
- Escalation
- Cancellation
- Process completion at one level
Intermediate Events
- Events capture
- Triggering events
- Limiting events
- Event subprocess
- Timer event in normal flow
- Timer event on boundary
- Message triggering
- Message intercepting normal flow
- Gateway event types
- Error
- Escalation
- Signal
- Communication between tracks via Exception Messages
Structures for connecting and sharing paths in a process
- Parallel split
- Exclusive split
- Conditional split
- Merging alternative paths
- Merging parallel paths
- Merging conditional paths
- Discriminating paths
Creating structures to support unique flow
- Types of exceptions
- Best practices for handling exceptions
Repeating activity patterns
- Loop
- Multi-instance activity
- Batch processing
Transactional sub-processes
- Concept of transaction
- Compensating activity
- CANCEL event
- Designing a compensation mechanism
Requirements
Participants should have a solid understanding of BPMN Descriptive modeling, including: basic start and end events, basic gateways, and simple process models. Typically, foundational BPMN concepts are not covered by the trainer.
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