Modeling Your Content Using

BPMNDr. Jackie Damrau

Certified BPMN Professional, STC Fellow

Call for Proposal

• Session Type: Breakout

• Session Description: Content is still “king” to those in the

technical communication or content strategy space. I have

found it easier to “craft” content for just about anything by

modeling it using the BPMN methodology. It’s like mind

mapping, but with more of a structure than one expects. I can model my thoughts in free-flow or by using swimlanes for a

more structured approach.

• Attendees will learn:

o How to use business process modeling (BPM) with its notation (BPMN) to model content

o About the field of business process management and how modeling can help define so many things

o The different types of modeling structures that are available for specific industries and how to adapt them for use with their content

12/26/2014 2LavaCon 2015: 18-21 October , New Orleans at the Astor Crowne Plaza

(Submit a CFP: http://lavacon.org/2015CFS.pdf)

Session Outline

• What is a model?

• What is a process?

• What is a process model?

• What is process logic?

• What process logic questions can I ask?

• What process model types are available?

12/26/2014 3LavaCon 2015: 18-21 October , New Orleans at the Astor Crowne Plaza

(Submit a CFP: http://lavacon.org/2015CFS.pdf)

Dr. Jackie Damrau

• A certified BPMN Professional

• A Senior BPM Analyst for a global commercial real estate company where she models business processes and other department workgroup processes using BPMN modeling notation

• A Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), member of the STC North Texas Lone Star chapter and the Instructional Design & Learning SIG, and the Book Review Editor for Technical Communication

• Enjoys reading literature, sociology, linguistics, and philosophy

• Can be found here:o LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiedamrau)

o Twitter (@damrauja)

12/26/2014 4LavaCon 2015: 18-21 October , New Orleans at the Astor Crowne Plaza

(Submit a CFP: http://lavacon.org/2015CFS.pdf)