Creating business process models that can be shared effectively across the business - and between business and IT - demands more than a digest of BPMN shapes and symbols. It requires a step-by-step methodology for going from a blank page to a complete process diagram. It also requires consistent application of a modeling style, so that the modeler's meaning is clear from the diagram itself. Author Bruce Silver explains not only the meaning and proper usage of the entire BPMN 2.0 palette, but calls out the working subset that you really need to know. He also reveals the hidden assumptions of core concepts left unexplained in the spec, the key to BPMN's deeper meaning. 
 The book addresses BPMN at three levels, with primary focus on the first two. Level 1, or descriptive BPMN, uses a basic working set of shapes and symbols to meet the needs of business users doing process mapping. Level 2, or analytical BPMN, is aimed at business analysts and architects. It takes advantage of BPMN's expressiveness for detailing event and exception handling, key to analyzing and improving process performance and quality. Level 3, or executable BPMN, is brand new in BPMN 2.0. Here the XML underneath the diagram shapes becomes an executable design can be deployed to a process engine to automate the process. The method and style detailed in the book aligns these three levels, facilitating business-IT collaboration throughout the process lifecycle. 
 Inside the book you'll find discussions, illustrated with over 100 examples, about: 
 The questions BPMN asks, and does not ask The meaning of basic concepts like starting and completing, sending and receiving, waiting and listening Subprocesses and hierarchical modeling style The five basic steps in creating Level 1 models Event and exception-handling patterns Branching and merging patterns Level 2 modeling method Elements of BPMN style: element usage and diagram composition

BPMN Method and Style: A levels-based methodology for BPM process modeling and improvement using BPMN 2.0

Business & Money

Silver, Bruce

Management & Leadership

Cody-Cassidy Press

BPMN 2.0 is the industry standard diagramming language for business process models. The meaning of the business process diagram is the same, regardless of the tool used to create it. But creating models that are correct, complete, and clear demands more than a dictionary of BPMN shapes and symbols. It also requires a methodology for translating process logic consistently into the diagram. And it requires a measure of modeling style as well, conventions that ensure that the process logic is unambiguous from the diagram by itself. In short, "good BPMN" requires a disciplined approach called "method and style." In this book, Bruce Silver explains which BPMN elements process modelers need to understand, in two levels, including exactly where and how to use each element. Level 1 (the Descriptive modeling subclass of BPMN 2.0) is a palette of shapes and symbols largely carried over from traditional flowcharting. Level 2 (the Analytic subclass) expands the palette to be able to describe event-triggered behavior, critical to modeling exception handling. The book explains the real meaning of BPMN's most basic concepts - like activity, process, and end state - essential to using the language correctly, and provides a step-by-step methodology for going from a blank page to a complete end-to-end BPMN model, developed from the top down in a hierarchical structure. From the top-level diagram you can see on a single page exactly how the process starts, its possible end states, what the instance represents, and communications with the Customer, service providers, and other processes. From there you can drill down to see the details of any part of the process. Thie popular first edition of this book was published in 2009 based on the draft BPMN 2.0 specification. This second edition is based on the final BPMN 2.0 specification. Although the diagram elements have changed little since the first edition, both the methodology and style sections have been completely rewritten. The second half of the book, the BPMN Implementer's Guide, is completely new. It puts the focus on the XML serialization of the diagram, for both non-executable and executable process models. It details the BPMN 2.0 metamodel and XML Schema, and describes the BPMN-I Profile, a set of serialization rules that facilitate interchange of BPMN models in the Analytic subclass between tools. It also explains how BPMN 2.0 describes execution-related details, such as process data and data mapping, services, messages, and human task assignment, illustrated with an example executable process created in Bonita Open Solution. It concludes with guidelines for implementers on how to align executable design with business-oriented top-down process modeling. The book is lavishly illustrated with over 100 BPMN diagrams, and the BPMN Implementer's Guide section contains many XML examples as well.

BPMN Method and Style, 2nd Edition, with BPMN Implementer's Guide: A Structured Approach for Business Process Modeling and Implementation Using Bpmn 2

BPMN 2.0 ist der führende und offene Standard für die Geschäftsprozessmodellierung. Unabhängig von der Wahl des Modellierungswerkzeuges bleibt die Bedeutung der Geschäftsprozessdiagramme immer dieselbe. Allerdings erfordert das Erstellen von korrekten, vollständigen und aussagekräftigen Diagrammen mehr als ein einfaches Verzeichnis der BPMN-Elemente. Vielmehr wird eine Methode benötigt, welche die Übersetzung der Prozesslogik in ein konsistentes BPMN-Diagramm unterstützt. Dies erfordert eine sinnvolle Anzahl von Stilregeln, die gewährleisten, 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 erklärt, welche BPMN-Elemente wirklich benötigt 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 Aktivitäten, Prozesse und Endstatus sind essentiell bei der korrekten Verwendung der Sprache. Es ist ein schrittweises Top-down Vorgehen erforderlich, das vorgibt, wie von einem weißen Blatt Papier zu einem ausdruckstarken Modell hingearbeitet werden kann. Im Hauptdiagramm ist einfach und klar erkennbar, wie ein Prozess startet, welches seine möglichen Endzustände sind, was eine Prozessinstanz im Modell repräsentiert und wie die Kommunikation abläuft. Ausgehend von einem Hauptdiagramm wird der Prozessfluss von oben nach unten entwickelt. Die populäre erste Ausgabe des gleichnamigen Buches wurde im Jahr 2009 auf der Basis des Entwurfes zur Spezifikation der BPMN 2.0 veröffentlicht. Die vorliegende zweite Ausgabe behandelt die finale BPMN 2.0-Spezifikation, die sich seit der ersten Auflage des Buches verändert hat. Der Methode & Stil-Teil wurde fast vollständig neu geschrieben. Die zweite Hälfte des Buches, das „BPMN-Handbuch für die Prozessautomatisierung" wurde komplett neu entwickelt. Darin wird die XML-Diagramm-Repräsentation für nicht-ausführbare und ausführbare Prozessmodelle ins Zentrum gerückt. Dabei wird das BPMN-Metamodell und das XML-Schema detailliert erklärt 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-Lösung Bonita Open Solution wird veranschaulicht, wie zur Ausführung benötigte Details, wie Prozessdaten und Datenmappings, Services, Nachrichten und Benutzerinteraktionen, in der BPMN 2.0 definiert werden. Das Buch schließt mit Richtlinien für Entwickler ab, welche zeigen, wie das Design von Top-down-modellierten Geschäftsprozessen in eine ausführbare Form gebracht werden kann. Das Buch ist mit über 100 BPMN-Diagrammen reichhaltig illustriert und das Handbuch für die Prozessautomatisierung enthält unzählige XML-Beispiele. Bruce Silver, bekannt als BPMN-Berater, Autor und Dozent, ist einer der führenden Anbieter für BPMN-Training, -Zertifizierung und -Beratung. Er war Mitglied der Arbeitsgruppe für die Entwicklung der BPMN 2.0 in der OMG und unterhält den populären Blog BPMS Watch (www.brsilver.com), der Neuigkeiten und Kommentare rund um BPM-Suiten und BPMN enthält. Stephan Fischli, Berater, Coach und Trainer im BPM-Umfeld, ist langjähriges 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 unterhält den offenen BPMN-Blog (www.bpmn.ch) und engagiert sich in verschiedenen Standardisierungs-Organisationen rund um BPM und BPMN.

BPMN Methode & Stil" mit dem BPMN Handbuch für die Prozessautomatisierung (Zweite, deutsche Ausgabe) (German Edition)

The BPI Blueprint provides you with a detailed plan of action to create results the first time, inspire leaders of business processes, and build invigorated skilled teams. So if you're looking for a simple, no nonsense, guide to help you develop and manage effective Business Process Improvement projects, regardless of your experience-level, you've got the right book. This practical guide tells you exactly what's required at each phase, such as: Chartering and Staffing, Process Discovery, Process Analysis, Process Design, and Implementation Plan. Plus, modeling, analytical and redesign tools and techniques are explained so you can replicate them. And client examples provide guideposts; demonstrating what works, what doesn't, and why. All of this enables you to keep your BPI Projects simple, structured and successful. The methodology for The BPI Blueprint is based on action learning, which calls out for the best type of action - learning and working on your real project with opportunities for feedback and discovery. Done right, BPI projects engage the minds and hearts of leaders and teams, which can lead to amazing outcomes and fun! So let The BPI Blueprint guide you to great results! When you use The BPI Blueprint as the guide for your own BPI project you will: (1) see better business results faster; (2) identify techniques that lead to solutions; (3) develop team synergy before execution; (4) build leaders who sustain operational excellence; (5) inspire employees to make ongoing improvements; (6) learn where to simplify quickly; (7) keep moving projects forward effectively. "A must read for any business process enthusiast and/or practitioner. Shelley's step by step guide takes the guess work away and shows how to extract tangible gains from process improvement projects." Naveen Adibhatla, Product Manager, Internet online search startup "Whether you are an old hand or just starting out, Shelley Sweet has provided a step-by-step guide on how to engage in your business process initiative. She explains how to overcome resistance and engage the correct people at all levels to obtain a successful improvement project." Kevin Browne, Project Manager, The Sharbot Group Ltd "We have used Shelley Sweet's process improvement methodology and tools in our workplace and found them to be direct, engaging, challenging and always respectful. I am very pleased to see that she has written this book so that larger audiences will benefit from her years of facilitation." Vera Potapenko, PhD, Chief Human Resources Officer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory "This book is... a straightforward how-to guide for anyone interested in Continuous Improvement. The tools and techniques outlined encourage team participation and focus attention on improving to meet the goals of the organization." Stephanie Venimore, BA BPMP, Business Performance Advisor, Canadian Local Municipal Government "Shelley Sweet has delivered a terrific book on how to make process improvement successful, providing guidance on everything from process mapping and analysis to organizational dynamics and politics.... I highly recommend this book as a must read for business leaders and others who want a step-by-step manual on real-world best practices for process improvement." Brian Safron, Worldwide Program Director, Smarter Process, IBM "With The BPI Blueprint, Sweet has delivered the solution to a long-standing need in the process improvement arena -- a structured approach that works equally for practitioners and business leaders. This book is recommended for those seeking to lead change and improvement initiatives in their own organizations, as well as those seeking to bring out the best in their customer enterprises." Nathaniel Palmer, VP and CTO, Business Process Management, Inc.

The Bpi Blueprint: A Step-By-Step Guide to Make Your Business Process Improvement Projects Simple, Structured, and Successful

Sweet, Shelley

Método y Estilo BPMN, Segunda Edición, con la Guía de Implementación BPMN (Spanish Edition)

This title is out of date. Please buy the Second Edition. Business Decision Management is a technology-assisted practice of defining, analyzing, and maintaining the decision logic that drives interactions with customers, suppliers, and employees. For many years, subject matter experts created text-based "requirements" and handed them over to programmers for implementation on a Business Rule Engine. The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) now offers a better way: decision logic precisely defined and maintained by subject matter experts themselves, using business-friendly graphical models that can be automatically validated for completeness and consistency. Since DMN is an industry standard, the meaning of a decision model does not depend on the tool used to create it or some consultant's methodology. It's defined by a specification. And best of all, DMN models are directly executable, so What You See Is What You Get. "DMN Method and Style" is your guide to the new standard and to the features and benefits of Business Decision Management. It explains not only the shapes and symbols used to describe end-to-end decision logic in a Decision Requirements Diagram (DRD), but how to properly decompose the top-level decision into a network of supporting decisions and input data. It also shows you how to define the detailed logic of each decision in the diagram using decision tables, literal expressions, and reusable logic blocks called business knowledge models. Like its predecessor "BPMN Method and Style", the book suggests best practices, in the form of style rules and a modeling methodology, for capturing the end-to-end decision logic in a way that is complete, consistent, and clear from the printed DRD and tabular expressions alone.

DMN Method and Style: The Practitioner's Guide to Decision Modeling with Business Rules

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. <ul>
<li>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.</li> <li>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. </li> <li>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. </li> <li>Chapter 4, BPMN Style, explains the most important style rules, illustrating both violations and correct BPMN style.</li> <li>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. </li> <li>Chapter 6, Parallel Flow, explains proper merging of sequence flows, depending upon whether they are exclusive alternatives, unconditionally parallel, or conditionally parallel.</li> <li>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. </li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul>
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.

BPMN Quick and Easy Using Method and Style: Process Mapping Guidelines and Examples Using the Business Process Modeling Standard

The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard is transforming the practice of business decision management. Instead of “harvesting” business rules in text-based requirements documents handed off to programmers, business users themselves now can create true decision models that serve either as verifiable implementation requirements or complete, fully executable decision services. Completely revised from the original edition and updated to DMN 1.2, the book guides business users through the use of DMN, including creation of Decision Requirements Diagrams, decision tables, basic FEEL expressions, and invocation of more complex logic expressions created by others. It explains proper use of the DRD shapes and symbols, literal expressions in FEEL, and use of decision table analysis to ensure the decision logic is complete, consistent, and properly contracted and normalized. Even though the models are defined graphically in diagrams and tables, they are fully executable. The book shows how to execute decision logic directly in the modeling tool to test its correctness, and even how to deploy decision models as executable REST services in the cloud.

DMN Method and Style. 2nd Edition: A Business Pracitioner's Guide to Decision Modeling

Decision Model and Notation (DMN), the new standard for business decision modeling, is changing the methodology of business rules projects. While its Decision Requirements Diagrams (DRDs) and decision tables can be used to create business requirements handed off to programmers in a traditional rule language, DMN is actually a complete rule language shared by business and IT. Its various boxed expressions and FEEL expression language allow programmers and technically oriented modelers to create complex decision models directly executable on a DMN engine such as Drools/Red Hat Decision Manager. 
DMN Cookbook explains how the DMN language works and how it differs from traditional rule languages. It goes on to provide over 50 recipes illustrating DMN solutions to common problems facing decision logic developers, from manipulating strings, numbers, date/times, and lists to table queries and joins, iteration, recursion, and set operations. It also shows how to incorporate Java static and non-static methods, deploy DMN models as REST services, and invoke those services from a variety of clients, including Java, a BPMN process, and Microsoft Flow. Extended examples cover data validation, handling logic variations using either a central registry, dynamic composition, or static composition, a DMN-enhanced blockchain Smart Contract, and state chart-based pattern recognition. 
Each recipe includes a problem statement, a complete illustrated solution including DRD, boxed expressions, FEEL code and test case data, and discussion of the issues involved. Some examples illustrate multiple approaches: DMN 1.1 FEEL, DMN 1.2 FEEL, Java, and Drools extensions. All examples are explained and downloadable for editing and execution using Trisotech DMN Modeler.

DMN Cookbook: 50 Decision Modeling Recipes to Accelerate Your Business Rules Projects with Trisotech, Red Hat, and Drools

Computers & Technology

Tirelli, Edson

Computer Science

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: <ul> <li>User-driven, in which what happens next is determined primarily by knowledge worker decisions</li> <li>Event-condition-action (ECA), in which what happens next is determined primarily by business events</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> 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.

CMMN Method and Style: A Practical Guide to Case Management Modeling for Documentation and Execution

Software

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