BPM and BPMN 2.0 in Process Modelling training course

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