Introduction to Business Process Modeling
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Introduction to Business Process Modeling
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Introduction to Business Process Modeling
• Learning objectives – Understand the need for modeling business 1. Why business modeling?
processes during the process of information
2. How to model business processes?
systems development.
3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation 5. Basic BPMN notation
– Know BPMN as a graphical notation to model business processes. – Develop simple business processes models using
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• Why modeling business processes? – Information systems should help their 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation 5. Basic BPMN notation
organizations to… • Make competitiveness strategic decisions. • Make business tactical decisions. • Perform business processes and their related operations.
– Most information systems developments are
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operational-level oriented.
Introduction to Business Process Modeling
• Why modeling business processes? – Designing an information system without knowing 1. Why business modeling?
customers’ organization operations (business
2. How to model business processes?
processes) is a recipe for failure.
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– A technically correct product can be developed, but it will not succeed because of being useless for their users.
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• Why modeling business processes? I need more sales, the crisis is killing me!
1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation 5. Basic BPMN notation
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Tell me how your business works and I will make you a proposal to put it on the Web
Introduction to Business Process Modeling
• How to model business processes? – Textually: description in natural language. 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation 5. Basic BPMN notation
– Diagrammatically: description through a diagram • EPC diagrams (event-driven process chain) • UML activity diagrams • BPMN diagrams (Business Process Modeling Notation)
– The most recommended practice is to combine both types of descriptions, complementing the
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• How to model business processes? – EPC diagram example 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• How to model business processes? – UML activity diagram example 1. Why business modeling?
3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation 5. Basic BPMN notation
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• BPMN examples: private process 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• BPMN examples: collaboration (I) 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• BPMN examples: collaboration (II) 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• BPMN examples: the pizza collaboration* 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• Key BPMN elements – Task: any activity which is performed during a 1. Why business modeling?
business process.
2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• Key BPMN elements – Task: different types of tasks in BPMN. 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples
Manual
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Manual: performed by a person without using any software system. E.g. a telephone technician installing a telephone at a customer location
User: performed by a person using a software system. Usually scheduled through a task list manager. E.g. a phone operator updates a customer record.
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• Key BPMN elements – Task: different types of tasks in BPMN. 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples
Service
Service: performed automatically by a software system. E.g. calculate payroll.
Receive
Receive: it waits until a message from an external participant arrives. Equivalent to
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Introduction to Business Process Modeling
• Key BPMN elements – Flow: it indicates the order in which the tasks must 1. Why business modeling?
be performed.
2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• Key BPMN elements – Gateway: it represents a fork or a join in the task 1. Why business modeling?
flow.
2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• Key BPMN elements – Gateway: basic gateway types in BPMN. 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
• Exclusive gateway: task flow can only take only one of several possible ways.
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• Parallel gateway: task flow takes
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all possible paths.
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• Key BPMN elements – Events: they represent the start of a process, its 1. Why business modeling?
ending, and other type of events.
2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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Introduction to Business Process Modeling
• Key BPMN elements – Pools and swimlanes: they represent the process 1. Why business modeling?
organization and the roles performing the tasks.
2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• Key BPMN elements – Pools and swimlanes: they represent the process 1. Why business modeling?
organization and the roles performing the tasks.
2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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Introduction to Business Process Modeling
• Basic BPMN elements – Data objects: information flowing through the 1. Why business modeling?
process, e.g. documents.
2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• Basic BPMN elements – Message flows: they represent communication 1. Why business modeling?
between two organizations (pools).
2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
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• Basic BPMN elements – Message flows: they represent communication 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
between two organizations (pools). • Receiving and sending messages can be represented through message events.
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Introduction to Business Process Modeling
• Basic BPMN elements – Message flows: they represent communication 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation
between two organizations (pools). • Receiving and sending messages can be represented through message events.
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Introduction to Business Process Modeling
• Basic BPMN elements – Temporal events: the most used together with 1. Why business modeling?
message events.
2. How to model business processes?
Task does not end until the temporal event is generated
3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation 5. Basic BPMN notation
B PM N Ej em pl os B PM N
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If the temporal event fires before the task is finished, it is interrupted
Fin d e p lazo
S olic it ar p rórrog a
Tarea 1
Tarea 2
Task 2 starts two days after Task 1 ends.
2 dí as
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• Basic BPMN elements – Conditional events: they are usually associated 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes?
with business rules. B PM N Ej em pl os B PM N
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Sanci onado
Procesar préstam o
Más de 3 l i bros prestados
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• Basic BPMN elements – Event gateways: they select an output flow 1. Why business modeling?
depending on which event happens first.
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• Basic BPMN elements – Sub-processes: tasks which contain 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes? 3. BPMN examples 4. Key BPMN notation 5. Basic BPMN notation
another business process.
B PM N Ej em pl os B PM N
– Connectors: they allow the flow to continue elsewhere in the diagram. Conector 1
Conector 1
– Comments: they add information to any element in the diagram
B PM N Ej em pl os B PM N
El regi stro abre de 9 a 14 y de 16 a 18 de L a V. E n t reg ar solic it u d en reg ist ro
Debe hacerse di rectamente al rector.
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Introduction to Business Process Modeling
• Bibliography – B. Silver, BPMN Method & Style 1. Why business modeling? 2. How to model business processes?
(2nd edition) • http://brsilver.com/
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– OMG, BPMN 2.0 by Example.
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• http://www.bpmn.org/
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