BPMN for business analysts

Explore exclusive gateways (xor) in BPMN, which split a process into one of several paths based on data, with only a single token taking a chosen path.

Explore exclusive gateways in practice through a BPMN drone order scenario, showing parts checks, alternative paths, and a subprocess for drone assembling. Highlight the sunny day and unhappy path variants.

Explore how exclusive gateways model loops and rework in business processes, enabling backtracking to earlier steps when problems occur and handling data from various sources for rechecking and redoing steps.

Explore how inclusive gateways handle add-on choices in a BPMN drone assembly scenario, using data-based conditions to route to camera or GPS, with a default path for none.

Explore xor, and, or gateways in BPMN through a drone order process, showing feasibility, parts availability, and parallel tasks, with rework loops demonstrated in the demo diagrams.

Learn the fastest way to convert non-exclusive gateways in bpmn using the modelling assistant. Click the gateway, use conversions from the left arc, and switch to an inclusive (or) gateway.

Explore how start events trigger process initiation by listening for a message, a timer, or a conditional signal, while they remain passive and wait for something to happen.

Learn common start events in BPMN: plain, message, timer, and conditional; see how processes start from default triggers, external messages, scheduled times, or stock-level conditions, with practical examples.

Explore the common task types in BPMN, including manual, user, and service tasks, showing how IT coordination, task lists, and automation distinguish human work from system-driven steps.

Use the modelling assistant to convert BPMN objects, turning a non-exclusive OR gateway into an exclusive XOR gateway and a task into a sub-process, with a linked lower-level diagram.

Learn how pools and lanes in BPMN swim lanes show responsibility by clarifying who does what, with lanes dividing a pool and sequence flows staying inside its boundary.

Learn how to use black box pools as placeholders in BPMN diagrams when you omit process details, representing participants like customers or partners with a simple named rectangle.

Explore BPMN collaboration by using dashed-line message flows to show how participants exchange messages across pools. See how two or more pools connect to illustrate interactions with customers and partners.

Explore how event based gateways use intermediate events to determine paths based on the first occurring message, timer, or signal, with applications in order cancellations and alternatives.

Examine an advanced case study diagram of a bank credit application, with black box pools for bank, customer, and authorities, automated credit scoring, risk levels, and fraud reporting.

Explains how to handle unpredictable, unstructured workflows with the OMG standard CMMN, a case management notation that is declarative, event-driven, and supports adaptive case management beside BPMN.