BPMN 2.0 is the industry standard diagramming language for business process models. The meaning of the shapes and symbols is defined by a specification, independent of the tool employed. But creating models that communicate the process logic clearly and completely demands more than a dictionary of shapes and symbols. It also requires a methodology for properly structuring the process information and additional best practices specified as style rules that can be validated in a tool: Method and Style.

Based on training over 4000 students, this book zeroes in on the elements process modelers need to know in order to create Good BPMN: usage of the important shapes and symbols; the Method, a systematic procedure for translating process details gathered in stakeholder workshops into properly structured models that communicate the process logic clearly and completely; and style rules, additional conventions that make the process logic evident from the printed diagrams alone.

• Chapter 1, What Is BPMN?, discusses key differences between BPMN and traditional flowcharts, and explains the limitations of BPMN. It explains the real meaning of BPMN's most fundamental concepts - activity and process - and the issues that arise when BPM Architecture and other segments of the BPM domain use those terms much more loosely.
• Chapter 2, BPMN by Example, builds up an order process bit by bit using elements of the Level 1 working set, illustrating basic usage of tasks and subprocesses, start and end events, gateways, pools, and lanes, and message flow, plus the basics of Method and Style, including process levels and end states, with label matching between gateways in the parent level and end states in the child level.
• Chapter 3, The Method, describes a systematic procedure that deals with the real challenge of process modeling, turning process details gathered from stakeholder workshops into properly structured BPMN that communicates the process logic clearly.
• Chapter 4, BPMN Style, explains the most important style rules, illustrating both violations and correct BPMN style.
• Chapter 5, DMN and Decision Tasks, discusses why embedding decision logic in process models as a chain of gateways is Bad BPMN, and how integrating BPMN with the new companion standard DMN fixes the problem.
• Chapter 6, Parallel Flow, explains proper merging of sequence flows, depending upon whether they are exclusive alternatives, unconditionally parallel, or conditionally parallel.
• Chapter 7, Events, discusses common usage patterns with Timer, Message, and Error events. Using intermediate events and event subprocesses, eaders learn how to model deadline-triggered actions, wait for a message or a timeout, handle cancellation or update of a process in flight, and use error throw-catch patterns.
• Chapter 8, Instance Alignment, deals with the spec's requirement that the instance of every activity in a BPMN process must correspond 1:1 with the process instance. Since batching is commonplace in real processes, this chapter discusses various ways to handle it: loop and multi-instance activities, multi-process structures, and non-interrupting event subprocesses.
• Chapter 9, Becoming Proficient, discusses how to go beyond book learning and become really proficient at Good BPMN. It takes practice, testing your understanding, and hands-on experience with real tools.

Bruce Silver is the leading provider of BPMN training and certification. He has been providing BPMN training since early 2007 and is regarded as an authority in the field. He was a member of the BPMN 2.0 technical committee in OMG, and his methodandstyle.com website is a popular source of news and commentary about all matters related to BPMN.

DMN is the standard for model-based decision automation. Using standardized diagrams and tables together with the Low-Code expression language FEEL, DMN empowers both business and technical users to decompose complex decision logic into transparent and easily maintained models that can be instantly deployed as executable REST services. Moreover, it is a vendor-neutral standard maintained by the Object Management Group, so models behave the same in any compliant tool.

Using a combination of logic decomposition diagrams (DRDs), standard tabular formats (boxed expressions), and the Low-Code expression language FEEL, DMN allows subject matter experts to automate the operational decisions that drive the business. More powerful and business-friendly than Microsoft Power FX, DMN is used by both business and technical modelers to create, test, and deploy cloud-based decision services.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the language, completely revised from the 2nd edition, and updated to the current draft DMN 1.6 version. It includes many practical examples, with 271 diagrams and tables. Part I is the business-oriented Guide to Decision Modeling, explaining the creation and use of Decision Requirements Diagrams, decision tables, and all the tabular boxed expression types, as well as a deep dive into all the FEEL functions and operators. Part II is the more technically oriented DMN Cookbook (formerly a separate book), updated to DMN 1.5/1.6, with solutions to over 40 modeling challenges.

Case management is a branch of business process management dealing with unstructured and event-driven processes. CMMN is a business-oriented diagramming language standard for creating case models, for both case logic description and execution. Following the author's popular BPMN Method and Style and DMN Method and Style, this book shows how to use CMMN to create case models in which the logic is both clear from the printed diagrams and executable on a business automation platform.

Unlike BPMN for structured processes, which adopts the familiar look of swimlane flowcharts, CMMN's diagrams are unfamiliar to most modelers. In addition, CMMN logic is declarative, each task and stage in the model independently defining its own prerequisites. Aimed at business users, the book explains how to use the diagramming notation in a range of modeling styles, including:

• User-driven, in which what happens next is determined primarily by knowledge worker decisions
• Event-condition-action (ECA), in which what happens next is determined primarily by business events
• Hierarchical, in which CMMN stages are used as exclusive states of the case, with a top-level diagram describing the overall case logic and child-level diagrams describing the logic of each stage.

On top of the rules of the language defined in the specification, the author adds additional conventions called Method and Style, aimed at ensuring the case logic is clear from the printed diagrams. Many details needed to understand the logic are visible only to modelers with access to the design tool, not to stakeholders in the business who see only what is in the printed diagrams. Method and Style prescribes various additional connectors and labeling conventions that make these logic details visible to all. These conventions are formulated as style rules that can be validated in a CMMN tool.

The book provides detailed explanation of CMMN's declarative logic patterns, illustrated by examples from the field of Social Care. In addition, it provides an exhaustive list of CMMN Method and Style patterns together with their more familiar BPMN Method and Style equivalents.

The book is useful for modelers who need to go beyond BPMN's structured process constraints and for implementers who are interested in using this standard language in their business automation offerings.

Authored by members of WfMC, OMG and other key participants in the development of BPMN 2.0, the BPMN 2.0 Handbook brings together industry thought-leaders and international experts in this space. Exclusive and unique contributions examine a variety of aspects that start with an introduction of what's new in BPMN 2.0, and look closely at interchange, analytics, conformance, optimization, simulation and more from a technical perspective. The authors also address the business imperative for adoption of the standard by examining best practice guidelines, BPMN business strategy and the human interface including real-life case studies. Other critical chapters tackle the practical aspects of making a BPMN model executable and the basic timeline analysis of a BPMN model.This book is for business people who want to understand the how and why of BPMN 2.0 in simple non-jargon terms and the strategy and motivation for its adoption within the corporation.It is also for the technical practitioner seeking current insights into the BPMN 2.0 standard and how to take advantage of its powerful capabilities.

BPMN 2.0 ist der f hrende und offene Standard f r die Gesch ftsprozessmodellierung. Unabh ngig von der Wahl des Modellierungswerkzeuges bleibt die Bedeutung der Gesch ftsprozessdiagramme immer dieselbe. Allerdings erfordert das Erstellen von korrekten, vollst ndigen und aussagekr ftigen Diagrammen mehr als ein einfaches Verzeichnis der BPMN-Elemente. Vielmehr wird eine Methode ben tigt, welche die bersetzung der Prozesslogik in ein konsistentes BPMN-Diagramm unterst tzt. Dies erfordert eine sinnvolle Anzahl von Stilregeln, die gew hrleisten, dass die Prozesslogik alleine aus dem Diagramm ablesbar ist. Kurz gesagt: Gute BPMN erfordert einen konsequent verfolgten Ansatz bei der Prozessmodellierung, genannt Methode & Stil. In diesem Buch wird erkl rt, welche BPMN-Elemente wirklich ben tigt werden und wie sie in der Praxis angewendet werden. Die Ebene 1, die deskriptive Unterklasse der BPMN 2.0, beinhaltet die Elemente, die zur Mehrheit aus der klassischen Flussdiagrammtechnik bekannt sind. Ebene 2, die analytische Unterklasse, erweitert diese Palette zur Modellierung von Ereignissen und Ausnahmebehandlungen. Die grundlegenden Konzepte der BPMN werden vertieft behandelt. Dinge wie Aktivit ten, Prozesse und Endstatus sind essentiell bei der korrekten Verwendung der Sprache. Es ist ein schrittweises Top-down Vorgehen erforderlich, das vorgibt, wie von einem wei en Blatt Papier zu einem ausdruckstarken Modell hingearbeitet werden kann. Im Hauptdiagramm ist einfach und klar erkennbar, wie ein Prozess startet, welches seine m glichen Endzust nde sind, was eine Prozessinstanz im Modell repr sentiert und wie die Kommunikation abl uft. Ausgehend von einem Hauptdiagramm wird der Prozessfluss von oben nach unten entwickelt. Die popul re erste Ausgabe des gleichnamigen Buches wurde im Jahr 2009 auf der Basis des Entwurfes zur Spezifikation der BPMN 2.0 ver ffentlicht. Die vorliegende zweite Ausgabe behandelt die finale BPMN 2.0-Spezifikation, die sich seit der ersten Auflage des Buches ver ndert hat. Der Methode & Stil-Teil wurde fast vollst ndig neu geschrieben. Die zweite H lfte des Buches, das BPMN-Handbuch f r die Prozessautomatisierung wurde komplett neu entwickelt. Darin wird die XML-Diagramm-Repr sentation f r nicht-ausf hrbare und ausf hrbare Prozessmodelle ins Zentrum ger ckt. Dabei wird das BPMN-Metamodell und das XML-Schema detailliert erkl rt und das BPMN-I-Profil beschrieben. Letzteres beinhaltet eine Menge von Regeln, welche den Austausch von Diagrammen mit Elementen aus der analytischen Unterklasse sicherstellen soll. Anhand eines Beispiels auf der Basis der Open-Source-L sung Bonita Open Solution wird veranschaulicht, wie zur Ausf hrung ben tigte Details, wie Prozessdaten und Datenmappings, Services, Nachrichten und Benutzerinteraktionen, in der BPMN 2.0 definiert werden. Das Buch schlie t mit Richtlinien f r Entwickler ab, welche zeigen, wie das Design von Top-down-modellierten Gesch ftsprozessen in eine ausf hrbare Form gebracht werden kann. Das Buch ist mit ber 100 BPMN-Diagrammen reichhaltig illustriert und das Handbuch f r die Prozessautomatisierung enth lt unz hlige XML-Beispiele. Bruce Silver, bekannt als BPMN-Berater, Autor und Dozent, ist einer der f hrenden Anbieter f r BPMN-Training, -Zertifizierung und -Beratung. Er war Mitglied der Arbeitsgruppe f r die Entwicklung der BPMN 2.0 in der OMG und unterh lt den popul ren Blog BPMS Watch (www.brsilver.com), der Neuigkeiten und Kommentare rund um BPM-Suiten und BPMN enth lt. Stephan Fischli, Berater, Coach und Trainer im BPM-Umfeld, ist langj hriges Mitglied der OMG im Umfeld der Entwicklung der BPMN. Er hat die deutsche Ausgabe dieses Buches verfasst und hat zusammen mit Bruce Silver die BPMN-Schulungsplattform BPMessentials.com aufgebaut. Stephan Fischli unterh lt den offenen BPMN-Blog (www.bpmn.ch) und engagiert sich in verschiedenen Standardisierungs-Organisationen rund um BPM und BPMN.

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