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2 The Ultimate Guide to BPMN2

Why BPMN Matters 3

What is BPMN? 4The ABCs of BPMN 5

A means for business & technical collaboration 6

The 4 categories of BPMN elements 7BPMN elements in 4 categories 8

Workflow elements 9

Organizing elements 10

Readability elements 11

Special behavior elements 12

The 3 levels of BPMN complexity 13BPMN at 3 levels of complexity 14

Basic BPMN 15

An example with basic BPMN elements 16

Intermediate BPMN 17

Intermediate activities 18

Intermediate sequence flow 19

Intermediate gateway 20

Intermediate events: catch and throw 21

Intermediate events: messages and signals 22Intermediate events: timers and errors 23

Intermediate events in a process model 24

Summary 25

Sources and further reading 26

Contents


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Why BPMN Matters

Business Process Model andNotation 2.0 (BPMN2) is one of thebest things to happen in business

process management in a long time.

mindful of the power and potentialof shared standards. BPMN 2.0 is anatural fit with what we do.

Finally, both the businessand technical sides of theorganization can sharea common language something that theycan both understandand that meets theirrespective needs forprecision and flexibility.This shared language isempowering new waysof working together

- and it results in the deployment of

new and more flexible applications.At Bonitasoft, the leading provider ofopen source BPM solutions, we are

And we believe the benefits can become quicklyapparent. In fact, the nice thing about BPMN is thatit is so structurally sound that once you master theBasic BPMN level elements, your knowledge andcapability will improve quickly; youll learn what youneed from the intermediate BPMN level elementsfor extending the model, and the technical team willpick up the advanced BPMN level to complete theexecution capability.

We offer this Ultimate Guide to help you to get

familiar with the basics and give BPMN a try.We are convinced you will find it powerful, adaptableand remarkably easy. Whether you are a businessprofessional or a developer, BPMN2 is your pathto better processes, improved management, andmore efficiency.

Miguel Valdes Faura,

Bonitasoft CEO and founder

We realize that many people andorganizations who could benefit fromBPMN have yet to give it a try.

It may be that youve been putting itoff under the mistaken assumptionthat you need to be an expert touse BPMN. Or it may be because thestandard itself, and many of the thingswritten about BPMN, are bit unwieldy

and hard to dissect.In fact, BPMN is much simpler than youmight think; expertise comes over time but starting is actually pretty easy.


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The Ultimate Guide to BPMN2

What is BPMN?
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The 4 categories of BPMN

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The BPMN2 spec is long, dense andrelatively complex

Workflow

elements

Activities

Events

Gateways

Sequence flow

With just a few elements from firstthree categories you can draw a bu-siness process diagram and begin tobuild and understand a process.

Lets look more closely at what theyrepresent.

BPMN elements in 4 categories

Organizing

elements

Pools

Swimlanes

Groups

Readability

elements

Annotation

Links

Special behavior

elements

Messages/message flow

Signals

Timers

Errors

Repeating

Correlation

We can approach it by organizingBPMN elements into a few generalcategories.

In the BPMN2spec

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The 3 levels of BPMN

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BPMN symbols serve a dualpurpose.

Workflow elements

BPMN at 3 levels of complexity

They visually represent a process flow.

They translate to executable code thatallows a visual process model to beexecuted as an application.

Recall that we can organize BPMNmodeling elements into a few generalcategories:

Organizing elements

Note that Basic BPMN is predo-minately visual. Intermediateand Advanced BPMN becomesexecutable.

Readability Elements

Special behavior elements

Lets look at these BPMN elements at the three levels of complexity:Basic, Intermediate and Advanced

Abstract task Human task

Service task

Call activity

Event subprocessActivities

start

end

In-line and boundaryevents - See special

behavior

InclusiveXOR

AND

Looping

Multi-instantation

Transaction

Compensation

Correlation

Events

Gateways

Special behavior

Basic Intermediate Advanced

Conditional flow

Default flow

Sequence flowSequence flow

Message

Timer

Error

Signal


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Intermediate gateway

The intermediate gateway inclusiveoffers finer control of process flow

Outputs from inclusive gateway

The inclusive gateway can fire multi-ple outputs simultaneously.

It requires conditionson the outgoingsequence flows.

Example

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)*+, -

)*+, .

)*+, /

!"#$%$#& -

!"#$%$#& .

!"#$%$#& /

01"*23$%456#4,6& -

01"*23$%456#4,6& (

default

Inputs to

inclusive gateway

Outputs from

inclusive gateway

amount > 5000

color is blue

l

always

no token is passed

(i.e., condition = false )

l

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l l

amount 5000

color red

l

! "# $% &% "# '( )* +

l

In this example, flows 2 and 4 meetthe flow condition. Flows 1 and 3 donot so no token passes.

Inputs to inclusive gateway

The inclusive gateway waits for allincoming inputs (tokens).All validinputs must be received before theprocess flow can continue. The enginerecognizes which inputs it must waitfor (i.e., flows 2 and 4).


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Summary

With just 4 categoriesof basic andintermediate BPMN you can beginto build a deployable, executable

process application

BPMN is a standard that allowsbusiness and IT to share a commonlanguage, which makes developmentof BPM applications for business by IT

easier and more efficient.BPMN is both a set of visual modelingelements, and a set of semantics forexecutable code represented by thoseelements.

Many of the visual elements inBPMN are similar to standard flowchart elements. Modeling with andinterpreting models with BPMN isrelatively straightforward.

BPMN elements can be categorized:

Workflow elements

Organizing elements

Readability elements

Special behavior elements

There are Basic, Intermediate, and

Advancedelements in each of thesecategories.

Basic BPMNis useful for modeling.

Intermediate BPMN begins tomake a model executable.

Advanced BPMN fully definesprocess behavior.

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