Fundamentals of Business Process management - C: Basics
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What is the primary goal of PMN?
- business analysts
- technical developers
- business managers
Its a common XML language which bridges the communication gap between business process design and implementation
What is BPMN's method and style?
- a standardized set of symbols with semantics and rules on how to combine symbols
Method
- a 'how to' set of guidelines
Style
- the art of modelling, a combination of best practices, experiences and consistent application of some principles
What is Bruce Silver's BPMN method?
- limited set of symbols
- hierarchical, top-down modelling
- focus on understanding and handeling real-world processes
- focus: business
Level 2: Analytical BPMN
- full palette of symbols, incorporates events, exception handling
- emphasises consistency and technical meaning of shapes
- focus: shared meanign between Business & IT
Level 3: executable BPMN
XML language underneath BPMN
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Which submodels are there within an end-to-end BPMN model?
- non executable Business Processes
- Executable Business Processes
- Public processes
Choreohraphies
- focus on the exchange of messages between participants
Collaborations
- represent interactions between two or more processes
What are the basic concepts within BPMN
- somethign that 'happens' during the process
- can affect the flow of the process
- usually have a trigger or a result
- can start, interrupt, or end the flow
Activity
- work that is performed within a business process
- can be atomic or non atomic
Sequence flow
- used to show the order in which the process activities will be performed
Message flow
- used to show the flow of messages between two entities that are prepared to send and receive them
Gateways
- used to control how sequence flows interact as they converge and diverge within a process
What are the BPMN basic symbols and their meaning?
What are the BPMN token semantics?
A process instance represents a single occurrence of a process
- it can be represented as a token
- colours can be used to distinguish different process instances
- the start event creates tokens
What does the XOR split do?
Only 1 outgoing path is chosen
based on data known to the process (conditions)
default flow means 'otherwise' = if all other conditions evaluate to false
How does the inclusive OR split work?
1 or more outgoing paths are chosen
requires a condition on each of its outgoing branches
tested based on data known to the process
How does the AND (parallel) split work?
All parallel paths are followed
- token is split in as many tokens
Same meaning as multiple outgoing paths of an activity
What does the merging paths: XOR join do?
- XOR join behaves as a multi-merge or 'pass through': triggered once for each incoming token
Same meaning as merging without gateway
What does the merging paths: AND join do?
AND gateway join enforces synchronisation
What does the merging paths: inclusive OR join do?
- behaves like an and, but only waits for active paths
What is good practice in modelling style?
- avoid combining split and merge in a single gateway
How do pools function?
Well-defined semantics in BPMN
- the pool is a container for the sequence flow between activities
- sequence flow is not allowed to cross the boundary of a pool
How do lanes function?
Can be nested
- company -> departments -> roles
- lane set applies to a specific process level
- you can replicate lane set in parent and child level diagrams
How do messages function?
- is represented as a dashed arrow
Which BPMN information artifacts are there?
are a mechanism to show how data is required (input for) or produced (output by) by activites
Data Stores: persistent data
Are containers of data objects that need to be persisted beyond the duration of a process instance
Associations:
are used to link artifacts such as data objects and data stores with flow objects
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