Enabling SOA with BPM and BPMN

Exposure to SOA concepts

Although SOA is not specific to BPM software, there are a number of natural synergies between BPM and SOA. Perhaps most obvious of these is the separation of business process management as an independent function, allowing processes to be designed independently of any single application and leveraged as shared business logic.

BPM in Context

• The many faces of BPM
• The BPM umbrella
• BPM and Governance
• Industry players
• Maturity within the market
• Current BPM challenges
• The future of BPM

BPM Layering

• What is layering?
• Common layers
• Auxiliary layers
• The BPM stack
• Digesting the layers
• Layering rules of thumb

The State of Standards

• Standards – Friend or foe?
• Standards bodies
• Mature standards
• Standards in flux
• Emerging standards
• Leveraging SOA and BPM standards

Roles within BPM

• Enterprise roles within BPM
• Project Manager responsibilities
• Business Analyst responsibilities
• Architect responsibilities
• Developer responsibilities
• QA/Tester responsibilities
• Configuration manager responsibilities
• Specialist roles and responsibilities
• New role: Integration specialist
• New role: Process champion

Process-centric SOA

• The importance of Business Process Management (BPM) within SOA
• Common BPM pitfalls
• Modeling business processes
• Business process as documentation
• Controlling business processes
• Driving a process-centric enterprise

Rules-driven BPM

• Business rules within BPM
• Externalizing existing rules
• Identifying new rules
• Managing SOA business rules
• Leveraging business rules
• Supporting tools

Process and Service Identification Methodologies

• Overview of popular methodologies
• Top-down modelling
• Bottom-up modelling
• Goal-service modelling
• BPM modelling pitfalls
• BPM modelling recommendations

Service Lifecycle Recommendations

• SOA lifecycle overview
• High risk points within the SOA lifecycle
• Handling service and process dependencies
• Service composition
• Configuration and control
• Proper retirement of processes and services

Service Versioning Strategies

• The problem of SOA versioning
• Configuration control granularity
• The role of the service registry
• Naming conventions
• Process versioning
• Service versioning
• Operation versioning
• Supporting multiple simultaneous versions
• Defining a version control policy (VCP)

BPM-SOA Testing Strategies

• The problem of SOA testing
• End-to-end testing within BPM
• WS-I compliance
• WS-Policy compliance
• Mock clients and services
• Regression testing gotchas
• BPM testing recommendations

Security Recommendations

• BPM and security considerations
• The SOA security stack
• Security standards
• Single Sign On
• Identity management
• SOA security approaches
• Point-to-Point security
• ESB-brokered security
• The security service layer

BPM Business Patterns

• Business patterns
• The Self-service model
• The Information warehouse model
• The Information subscription model
• The User collaboration model
• The Extended enterprise model
• Custom business models

BPM and BPMN

• The added value of BPMN
• Composability and basic services
• Promoting an incremental and iterative approach
• Why should Use cases drive the project?
• Declaration of message properties
• Use of correlation sets
• Develop a complex parallel execution of activities
• Designing concurrency