Course Code: bspbpm
Duration: 21 hours
Course Outline:

 Introduction to Change Management

  • Brief overview
  • Organizational change management
  • Understand the organization’s culture
  • Develop a case for change
  • Integrate change management
  • Change and project management
  • Know your stakeholders
  • Have a sponsorship strategy
  • Engage supervisors and managers
  • Communicate what’s in it for me
  • Communicate to a variety of audiences
  • Training effectively: the cone of learning
  • Measure the value of the change
  • Have a sustainment plan
Requirements Gathering
  • Business analysis.
  • Requirements management and Use cases.
  • Types of users and their characteristics.
  • Creating a requirements management plan.
  • Interpreting currently available documentation
  • Concepts, tools & techniques for analysts.
Understand the Process
  • Create an elicitation plan
  • Review workflow diagramming techniques
  • UML, SIPOC, and Value Stream Maps
  • Develop a visual representation of a process
  • Discuss the reasons for creating AS IS
  • Discuss the appropriate level of detail
  • Guidelines for visual process representation
Improve the Process
  • Brainstorm on to be alternatives
  • Use the process improvement strategy
  • Evaluate and prioritize potential improvements
  • Test process improvements for potential pitfalls
  • Create to be models with a re-design
  • Business procedures supporting the process
Process Layering
  • What is layering?
  • Common layers
  • Audience for each layer
  • The Business Process Management stack
  • Digesting the layers
  • Layering rules of thumb
Roles within Processes
  • Project manager responsibilities
  • Business analyst responsibilities
  • Architect responsibilities
  • Developer responsibilities
  • QA/Tester responsibilities
  • Configuration manager responsibilities
  • Specialist roles and responsibilities

Process Modeling: BPMN Notation

  • Events, Gateways, Activities
  • Defining Events
  • Configuring Timeouts
  • Handling Faults
  • Catching Exceptions
  • Using Pools and Lanes
  • Usage of Sequence and Message flow
Events
  • Concepts
  • Start and End Events
  • Intermediate Events
  • Trigger
  • Types of Events
Gateways
  • Sequence Flow Considerations
  • Exclusive Gateway
  • Inclusive Gateway
  • Parallel Gateway
  • Event-Based Gateway
  • Parallel Event-Based Gateway
  • Complex Gateway
Process and Service Identification Methodologies
  • Overview of popular methodologies
  • Top-down modeling
  • Bottom-up modeling
  • Goal-service modeling
  • BPM modeling pitfalls
Implementing the Improvements
  • Identify transition needs by gap analysis
  • Utilize a Change and Impact Worksheet
  • Identify risks and impacts to the organization
  • Develop a plan to manage impacts
Process Quality and Governance
  • Awareness of Industry Reference Models
  • Quality, Metrics, and Governance Frameworks
  • Industry frameworks
  • Regulatory frameworks
Metrics Frameworks
  • APQC Process Classification Framework
  • SCOR Value Chain Reference Model
  • Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM)
  • Six Sigma
  • Balanced Scorecard
Rules-driven Process Design
  • Business rules within BPM
  • Externalizing existing rules
  • Identifying new rules
  • Managing SOA business rules
  • Leveraging business rules