Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Identify exceptions
Annotate
Business process modeling. Principles
• IDEF 0
• IDEF 3
• Event Process Chain (EPC)
• UML Activity Diagram
• ANSI Standard Flowchart
• SIPOC Notation
• Swim-lane/Cross-Functional Diagram
• Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
BPMN notation
BPMN
Key tips:
• An activity is work that is performed
within a business process. An activity
can be atomic or non-atomic
(compound). The types of activities
that are a part of a Process Model
are: Sub-Process, and Task
• Activities are rounded rectangles
• They can be performed once or can
have internally defined loops
BPMN. Events
Key tips:
• An Event is something that “happens” during the course of a
business process. They can start, interrupt, or end the flow
• Events are circles
• The type of boundary determines the type of Event
Key tips:
Exclusive Data-based • Gateways are modeling elements that
are used to control how sequence
flows interact as they converge and
Exclusive Event-based diverge within a Process
• All types of Gateways are diamonds
Inclusive
• Different internal markers indicate
different types of behavior
Parallel • All Gateways both split and merge the
flow
BPMN. Gateways examples
BPMN. Connectors
Key tips:
• 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 and receive them
• An Association is used to
associate data, information and
artifacts
BPMN. Swimlanes
BP Business Process
Diagram rules data
BP Model
Business rules. Example
Assign roles:
• Retail Loans Product Manager
• Credit Committee
• Branch Manager
• Back Office Clerk
+ facilitator (optional)
Read your process description (interview notes) and discuss the process in
order to have a common understanding.
Draw a logical process model in BPMN (starting from conceptual and
adding details and conditions) using own computers (minimum 2 per
team) - compare results.
Map your process tasks to the roles (lanes) and add messages/events,
annotations.
Time-frame – 40 minutes
BP management – next steps
Modeling As Is
Measuring
Information
Analyzing system
implementation
Modeling To Be
Implementation
Appendix. BPM notations overview
February 2012
BPM notations overview. Main notations
• IDEF 0
• IDEF 3
• Event Process Chain (EPC)
• UML Activity Diagram
• ANSI Standard Flowchart
• SIPOC Notation
• Swim-lane/Cross-Functional Diagram
• Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
BPM notations overview. IDEF-0
IDEF-0 Notation
Example of Level 0 (A-0):
BPM notations overview. IDEF-0
Levels of diagrams – Level 3 example:
BPM notations overview. Event Process Chain (EPC)
Basic Elements:
Basic Elements:
Basic elements: