Comprehensive BPMN 2 - From Analysis to Execution

Knowledge of any programming language. No knowledge of BPMS is required.

Audience

This course prepares participants to execute business processes with BPMN. It covers graphical representation as well as commonly used attributes of the BPMN 2 elements.

Technology

This course is not platform specific, only elements and attributes covered by OMG specification are covered. By default, it uses jBPM, but any other tool can be used as long as the tool supports BPMN 2.0.

Class format

Participants will follow an example use cases followed by hands-on exercises, so they can execute their process.

Overview

• BPMN as an OMG standard
• How to read specification

Analysis

• Methods and styles (not covered in specs)
• Processes and rules

Executing BPMN2 process elements

Processes and Activities

• Activity vs Task
• Human Interactions
• Types of Tasks
• Sub-Process
• Call Activity
• Loop Characteristics and Multi-Instance

Events

• Concepts
• Start and End Events
• Intermediate Events
• Trigger
• Types of Events
  • Message
  • Timer
  • Error
  • Escalation
  • Cancel
  • Compensation
  • Link

Gateways

• Sequence Flow Considerations
• Exclusive Gateway
• Inclusive Gateway
• Parallel Gateway
• Event-Based Gateway
• Parallel Event-Based Gateway
• Complex Gateway

Compensation

• Compensation Handler
• Compensation Triggering
• Relationship between Error Handling and Compensation

Transaction

• Transaction definition
• Transaction outcomes
  • success
  • error
  • cancel

Human Tasks (outside specification)

• Human tasks inside processes
• Human task service
• Human task clients

Testing and debugging

• Unit testing
• Debugging