What is BPMN? You’re about to learn a new language for describing business processes, the Business Process Modeling Notation, or BPMN. If you have done any process flowcharting, you will find it comfortably familiar at first. But as you learn more about it, it will occasionally seem strange and, to make things worse, strict and unbending. Because unlike traditional flowcharting, the shapes and symbols don’t mean whatever you define them to mean. Their meaning is defined already in a specification. […]
Modelling Organisations Construction/Expiration of the Organisation versus Roles
Modelling Businessobjects (BOM) Modelling Businessobjects (BOM) A business object is an entity within a multitiered software application that works in conjunction with the data access and business logic layers to transport data. Function Whereas a program may implement classes, which typically end in objects managing or executing behaviors, a business object usually does nothing itself but holds a set of instance variables or properties, also known asattributes, and associations with other business objects, weaving a map of objects representing the business relationships. A domain […]
What is a Processmap? A Processmap shows graphically single Business-Processes in their interactions and/or their temporal relations with each other. It is the base for all further optimizations, describtions and definitions of a Processorganization. It is the contrast of an organigramm, which shows (functional, hierarchical, disciplinary) the construction organisation. A Processmap gives an overview of: Available Processes in a Business Their logical correlation The responsible Process-owner and with which Processes the business is connected to their external Customers and Suppliers […]
Method & Style Validation 111701 Message Action A Timer Start Event should be labeled to indicate the process schedule. Label the Timer Start Event. Wrong: Right: 111702 Message Action A Signal start event should be labeled to indicate the Signal name. Label Signal start event. Wrong: Right: 111703 Message Action A Conditional start event should be labeled to indicate the condition. Label Conditional start event. Wrong: Right: 111704 Message Action A Message start event […]
What is BPMN? You’re about to learn a new language for describing business processes, the Business Process Modeling Notation, or BPMN. If you have done any process flowcharting, you will find it comfortably familiar at first. But as you learn more about it, it will occasionally seem strange and, to make things worse, strict and unbending. Because unlike traditional flowcharting, the shapes and symbols don’t mean whatever you define them to mean. Their meaning is defined already in a specification. […]
Learning to Use BPMN With Process Modeler you now have everything you need to begin modeling your business processes in accordance with the latest version of this important standard. Process Modeler Help explains what each of the shapes and symbols mean, but for most modelers getting acquainted with BPMN for the first time, this is not enough. You need the big picture, an overall framework for turning a blank Visio page into a complete process model that can be shared across the business, […]