OCEB2 OMG - BPM - Exam Preparation

Module 1: OCEB2 Fundamental Exam Prep

Business Goals, Objectives
Business Basics from the purely Business Point of View

• business fundamentals,
• strategy
• planning and goal-setting
• project management
• marketing
• staffing
• finance

Business Process Concepts and Fundamentals
Fundamental aspects of Business Processes: 

• identifying (discovering) business processes
• characteristics of processes
• as-is process vs. to-be process
• levels of business process modeling
• tying business processes to goals and objectives

Business Process Management Concepts and Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Business Process Management:

• functional vs. process-centric enterprise organization
• styles of process management
• advancements in process management
• stakeholders' roles and responsibilities
• enabling tools of process management

Business Motivation Modeling
Business Modeling Fundamentals - Elements of the Business Motivational Model: 

• business vision
• goals, objectives
• means and ends
• mission
• strategies, tactics
• aspects of business modeling

Business Process Modeling Concepts
Business Process Modeling Fundamentals:

• BPMN Basics
• definition and use of all BPMN elements included in the descriptive and analytic conformance subclasses
• activities;
• grouping elements of a model

Business Process Modeling Skills
Business Process Modeling Skills:

• brief scenario presented either as a BPMN diagram or in a few sentences
• BPMN elements listed in the descriptive and analytic conformance subclasses 

Process Quality, Governance, and Metrics Frameworks
Awareness of Industry Reference Models and Quality, Metrics, and Governance Frameworks:

• awareness of a range of industry frameworks
• APQC Process Classification Framework
• SCOR
• Value Chain Reference Model
• Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM)
• Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecard
• COBIT
• Sarbanes-Oxley

Module 2: OCEB2 Business Intermediate Exam Prep

Intermediate Business Motivational Modeling

Modeling business, moving up from Fundamental level: Ends, Means, Influencers, Assessments

• Organization Unit (in the BMM sense)
• Business Process, Business Rule
• constructing BMM models and interpreting (brief) scenarios

Business Process Modeling with BPMN

• Advanced BP modeling with BPMN:
  • Advanced event types
  • Links & GoTos
  • Compensation
  • Complex Activity Inputs and Outputs
  • Exception Handling
  • Iteration/Repetition/Looping
  • Grouping activities into SubProcesses
  • Data object (including Lifecycle and Accessibility)
  • Data store, data input, and data output
  • Global Task and Global Process
  • Conversations
  • Choreography
  • Execution Semantics

Decision Management and Modeling with DMN

• DMN Basic Concepts, and Scope and Uses
• Decision Requirements
• Relating Decision Logic to Decision Requirements
• Decision Tables
• Relation of DMN to BPMN

Business Rules Approach and Shared Business-Wide Vocabulary

• Noun Concepts and Business Rules (BR) vocabulary
• BR Basics
• Two types of BR
• BR and Business Processes
• Creating and using Process-Specific Business Rules
• Advantages of a shared business-wide vocabulary (SBVR Awareness)

Business Process Management Knowledge and Skills

• BP Project Management
  • Activity Lifecycle
  • Ownership of Processes
• Measurement and Optimization
  • CSFs and KPIs
  • Business Activity Monitoring
  • Scorecarding
  • Process Simulation and Optimization
  • BPM ROI
  • Model Value Analysis (When to model, and when not to)
  • BPMS Tool fundamentals
  • BPM Center of Excellence basics
  • Organizational Change Management

Process Quality and Governance Frameworks

• Questions at the Intermediate exam go one level deeper into the scope, goals, and structure of these major frameworks:
  • SOX, COBIT, and ITIL
• Frameworks for Process Improvement:
  • OMG's Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM)
  • 6 Sigma, LEAN