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An Introduction to

BPMN for BusinessPeople Part 1

Michael Moyal

Solutions Manager - BPM Practice


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Our Commitment is your Success 2

Introduction to BPMN

The purpose of this presentationis to introduce business people to

BPMN, its usages and benefits


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What is BPMN

Business Process Modeling Notation Graphical notation for drawing business

processes

An industry standard developed by theOMG consortium, a not-for-profit industry

group

Provides businesses with the capability of

defining and understanding their

procedures through Business Process

Diagrams (BPDs)


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Aims

To provide a standard notation that isreadily understandable by all business

stakeholders

To bridge the communication gap thatfrequently occurs between business

process design and implementation

To create a common business languageunderstood by all


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Why use BPMN?

Have become widely accepted Replaces numerous process modeling

languages, notations and methods

Simple to learn yet powerful enough todepict the potential complexities of a

business process

Vendor neutral with wide tool support(over 45 vendors now officially support the

standard)


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Why Should You Care?

Processes are at the core of any organisation, yetthey are not always clearly defined, documented

or optimised

The need to bridge the communication gap

between business and IT is stronger then ever As the rate of change in the business

environment increases and with greater pressure

to become more efficient; organisations must

form a clear view of how their processes operate

BPMN offers a notation that you can use to

document your own processes without ambiguity



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How?

Create business process diagrams (BPDs) Utilising a defined set of diagram elements

(objects)

Draw each step in the process Make use of the relevant diagram

elements to document events, activities

and decision points Show the complete end-to-end process

flow from start to finish


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Flow objectsThe flow objects are the three core elements of the notation:

Event-A trigger or a result that happens

during the course of a business process and

which affect the flow of the Process

Activitythe work that is performed within a

business process

Gateways- are decisions points that are used

to control how sequence flows interact as they

converge and diverge within a process.


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Connecting objects

A Sequence Flow is used to show the order that activities

will be performed in a Process.

A Message Flow is used to show the flow of messages

between two entities that are prepared to send andreceive them.

An Association is used to associate information and

artifacts with flow objects.


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Pools and Swimlanes

A Poolis a graphical

container for partitioning a

set of activities from other

pools.A Laneis a sub-

partition within a Pool

They can be used to

represent, for example,roles, departments,

locations or different

organisations


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Artifacts

Data Objects are not flow objects (i.e.,

connected through Sequence Flow), but they

do provide information about how

documents, data, and other objects are used

and updated within a Process.

Text Annotations are effectively notes that

can be added to a diagram to provide

additional information for the reader

Groupsprovide a mechanism to visually

organise activities, in addition to swimlanes


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Example


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Conclusion

BPMN is an easy to use, well establishedmethod for process discovery and

documentation

Provides the capability to capture anddocument your processes within days (with

the right tool/s)

Remember !!!

Carrying out process discovery and

documentation is only the start of the journey

for improvement and change



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