

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 1, What Is BPMN?, discusses key differences between BPMN and traditional flowcharts, and explains the limitations of BPMN.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.īased 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. But creating models that communicate the process logic clearly and completely demands more than a dictionary of shapes and symbols.

The meaning of the shapes and symbols is defined by a specification, independent of the tool employed. BPMN 2.0 is the industry standard diagramming language for business process models.
