BPMN 2.0 for Enterprise Architects

Name: BPMN 2.0 for Enterprise Architects
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Learn how to model business processes with BPMN 2.0

Created byAron Lange, GRC Lab

Last updated 8/2022

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What you'll learn

You will learn how to model real world business processes with BPMN.
You will learn how to use pools and lanes to represent organisations and responsibilities.
You will learn how to use activities like tasks or subprocesses to get into the action.
You will master the proper usage of gateways to maintain the correct flow of tokens.
You will understand the different use cases of events.
You will learn best practices to make your BPMN diagrams easy to understand by using artifacts or data objects.

Course content

4 sections • 20 lectures • 2h 12m total length

What is a (Business) Process?3:36
A process is a series of activities that transforms input into output types such as goods, services, or information. Activities can be performed by people or machines.
Business Process Management3:07
Learn how business process management drives continuous improvement by documenting, monitoring, and optimizing processes through the PDCA (plan, do, check, act) cycle and measurable performance.
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)4:41
Discover BPMN, the OMG standard for business process model and notation, and see how activities, gateways, events, swimlanes, data objects, and artifacts model real-world processes.
Understanding Business Process Management

Swimlanes4:09
Organize activities within a pool by using lanes to assign tasks to each participant, such as sales and marketing, and visualize pools exchanging information via message flows.
Swimlanes Quiz
Activities: Tasks6:27
Explore BPMN 2.0 activities and master the eight task types, from abstract to script tasks, with practical examples and the role of tokens in sequence flows.
Activities: Task Markers3:23
Explore BPMN 2.0 task markers: loop, sequential and parallel multi-instance, and compensation markers. Learn how loops repeat until a condition, multi-instances run in parallel or sequentially, and compensation undoes actions.
Activities: Sub-Processes4:51
Learn to model safe workflows with sub processes: embedded sub processes, events, and transactions, including boundary styles, expansion, and rollback scenarios for reliable process design.
Activities: Sub-Process Markers5:16
Learn the BPMN 2.0 sub-process markers—collapse, loop, multi instance, compensation, and ad hoc—and how they govern looping until a condition, parallel or sequential execution, undoing steps, and unordered activities.
Activities: Call Activities2:57
Learn how call activities trigger predefined global processes or tasks, reuse existing workflows via a process registry, and avoid duplicating sequence flows to maintain consistency.
Activities Quiz
Gateways8:31
Explore how gateways govern sequence flows in a process, using tokens to illustrate execution, and master exclusive, parallel, inclusive, complex, and event-based gateways to manage decisions and synchronization.
Gateways Quiz
Event Concepts3:40
Explore start, intermediate, and end events in BPMN 2.0, including catching and throwing events, triggers, and token flow through a process.
Start Events4:43
Identify how start events define where a top level BPMN 2.0 process begins, with no incoming flows, a token for each outgoing path, and seven start event types.
End Events2:25
End events indicate where a process ends, and they have no outgoing sequence flows, are drawn with a single thick line, and throw a result applicable to top level processes.
Intermediate Events5:18
Explore intermediate events in BPMN 2.0 and learn how throwing and catching events affect normal flow, boundary attachments, and interrupting versus non-interrupting behavior through event markers.
Event Markers8:48
Explore BPMN 2.0 event markers, including message, timer, error, conditional, signal, and terminate events, and learn how they shape start, intermediate, and end flows.
Events Quiz
Data3:16
Explore BPMN 2.0 data objects, including data objects, data collections, data inputs/outputs, and data stores, and see how they model and reuse information like invoices and leads.
Data Quiz
Artifacts3:01
artifacts in BPMN 2.0 include groups and text annotations that organize elements without altering flow, with groups labeling risk assessment and text annotations providing essential reader information.
Artifacts Quiz

bpmn.io4:05
Learn to use bpmn.io, a free web-based tool, to build BPMN diagrams in the browser with drag-and-drop elements, pools, lanes, gateways, connections, and export as SVG.
diagrams.net3:43
Explore diagrams.net as a free BPMN tool for online diagramming, using drag-and-drop shapes, pools as containers, and connectors for associations and message flows.
Microsoft Visio2:02
Visio, a Microsoft Office diagram tool, is powerful but pricey. Beginners and home users can turn to free alternatives, while professionals may rely on Visio; case studies follow.

Requirements

No prior knowledge of BPMN or Business Processes in general is required.

Description

Process documentation is a necessity for every organisation to ensure quality standards and optimise performance. The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a standard published by the Object Management Group (OMG). It provides a standardised notation that simplifies the design and execution of business processes. The course will begin with a brief introduction to business processes and the related management practices. The main part of the course is about BPMN elements which are considered as the building blocks of any BPMN diagram. They allow to model the flow and behaviour within business processes. This includes activities, events, gateways, data objects and artifacts. BPMN is best used with special software tools that provide the standardised elements which make each BPMN understandable to anybody in the world. You will be shown two free solutions and one paid solution, so everybody should be good to go. The course concludes with two case studies that will require the student to adapt to a real world problem and make use of the newly acquired skills within this course. The two case studies are highly pragmatic and allow everybody to relate to. What are you waiting for? BPMN will definitely give you an edge in your career.

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Who this course is for:

For people who want to learn BPMN 2.0 from scratch.
For people who want to pursue a career in Business Analytics
For people who work in business process management
For people who work in consulting and need a structured approach to model real world problems.

BPMN 2.0 for Enterprise Architects

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Course content

Business Process Management3 lectures • 11min

BPMN Elements14 lectures • 1hr 7min

BPMN Tools3 lectures • 10min

BPMN Case Studies0

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