Course Outline
By attending the BPMN course this will help delegates get a better understanding of process management and process modelling. In particular, this training will be useful for those corporate and government organisations looking for a formal way in which to describe every single aspect of their business processes, including business activities, information exchange, roles and business rules.
Project teams searching for better ways to communicate requirements between business and IT will also greatly benefit from this course.
Introduction
Lesson Review
Why BPM?
Topology of a BPM reference architecture
BPM Vendors overview
Positioning of BizAgi, Intalio, Aris, EA
BPM Overview
Building a Business component model
Defining differentiators and commodity components
IT and business must work hand in hand
Matching the right technology to your problem
Adopting a development model
Overview of a BPM system
Architecture of a BPM System
EAI and B2B aspects
Design tools
Deployment tools
Monitoring and management
The process engine
Process definition repository
Transaction manager
Connector framework
Understanding Basic Concepts and Architecture
Overview of open standards
UML, BPMN, BPEL
Overview of the BPMN Standard
The BPEL executable language
Basic concepts of a Process Manager
Process Manager Implementation Options
When to use process automation
Example of BPM Servers
Modeling a process with BPMN
The added value of BPMN
Composability and basic services
Promoting an incremental and iterative approach
Why should Use cases drive the project?
Declaration of message properties
Use of correlation sets
Develop a complex parallel execution of activities
Designing concurrency
BPMN implemented by vendors
Microsoft SOA and XLANG
Oracle SOA Suite and BPEL
A Simple Business Process
Introduction to using a Process Designer
Orchestrating services: SOA through BPM
Exchangeability of processes amongst vendors
Creating a Business Process
Adding Activities
Calling services in a loosely coupled fashion
Using location transparency
Deploying the Process
Fault Handling and Exception Management
Defining business events
Configuring service timeouts
Handling service faults
Catching service exceptions
Compensation Management
Administering Processes using Process Monitoring
Exploring the Administration Console
Managing a Domain
Viewing a PM Administration Server
Platform Administration
Interfacing with BAM (business activity monitoring)
What about BAS? (business activity services)
Adding a Notification to a Process
Selecting a Notification Channel
BPMN Features
o Using non-interrupting events
o New possibilities with escalation
o Using parallel multiple events
o The Data store representation
o Multiple Tasks, parallel or sequential
o Conversations & Choreographies
o Conversation Links
o Choreography tasks and participants
o Choreography sub process
BPMN Task Types
o Using a message send task
o Message receive tasks
o User and manual tasks in action
o Business rule tasks and mapping to a rule engine
o Service tasks and mapping to services in BPEL
o Script tasks
o Case study for the event sub process
o Reasons for using call activities
BPM as enabler of SOA: Key components
o Representing application frontends
o Defining service types in BPMN
o BPMN and the value of an ESB
o Using a Repository
o Increased agility for the business
The BPM Board
Distributing technology white papers
Controlling & measuring improvement processes
Managing the repository
Setup of a quality gateway
The 4 pillars of success
Governance and Business strategy
The personal perspective
Innovation, growth and flexibility
Convincing the CEO,CIO, and Business units
The past: data/functions vs objects & services
Core business logic vs process control logic
Design implications for Architects
Alignment of Business and IT
Choosing the right approach
Start at the beginning: the business
Definition of business competencies
Identifying differentiators and overhead
From requirements to components
When does a component become a service?
The future of BPM and SOA
Reaching vendor independence
Roadmap to enterprise renovation
Continuous improvements
