About the Training

Some preparations were shared before the training to ensure you can get the most out of this training. If you didn’t get around to those, you can take a look at the preparations before we get started.

The training you are attending is meant as an introduction to the fields of Business Process Management, its tools and techniques and using technology to automate processes and decisions.

Goals

You will learn:

  • About Business Process Management and its process modelling standards BPMN and DMN;

  • How to read and model business processes and decisions;

You will also perform some exercises to get some hands-on experience with the things you learn.

After this training, you will not be an expert in the field, but you should have the knowledge to participate in projects where it is used and learn more as you do so. You’ll also be able to identify when a project, programme or organisation could benefit from employing process and/or decision management.

Structure

The training is organised into a number of modules. Most of them follow this structure:

  • A presentation from the trainer, introducing topics;

  • A moment to ask questions about the topics presented;

  • An exercise to apply the new topics, performed on your laptop.

Modules

In a training prior to this one, the following modules have already been provided.

Process Management

2nd of April 2024 - 12:00-20:30

This module provides a brief introduction to Business Process Management. It will teach you why BPM is applied in organisations and why the tool and techniques that it offers (such as modelling standards) can help in doing so.

Business Process Model and Notation - Level 1

2nd of April 2024 - 12:00-20:30

This module provides an introduction to the process modelling standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0. You will learn about the standard, its syntax for creating process models and the semantics of each of the elements. The module focusses on the elements of BPMN you will need in most processes, to model common process patterns.

Process Engines

2nd of April 2024 - 12:00-20:30

This module offers a practical introduction to the concepts and usage of process engines. For illustration purposes, the lightweight process engine Camunda Platform 7 is used. You will be introduced to the main concepts you need to start automating processes and use that knowledge to build and test some processes yourself.

In this training, we will go through the following 3 modules.

This module provides a deep dive to the process modelling standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0. Following up on the common elements of Level 1, the palette is expanded with new elements to model advanced process patterns with BPMN’s rich expressiveness. Learn the syntax and the semantics for the Level 2 palette of BPMN 2.0.

Business Process Model and Notation - Level 2-part-1

11th of December 2024 - 15:00-19:30

The first part of the training module focusses on elements of the level 2 Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0 palette that take effect on a relatively small part of a process model. This includes elements such as specific task and event types that weren’t introduced with the Level 1 palette. These new types of events and tasks can be used to make our models express our intent more specifically,

Business Process Model and Notation - Level 2-part-2

9th of January 2025 - 15:00-19:30

In this second part of the training module, the modelling palette is expanded with elements that affect a medium scope of the process model, such as gateways and iterations. You’ll learn how to use BPMN’s more advanced gateways to branch and merge the flow when the requirements are more complex than the typical "starter" example cases. In many process models, there are iterations that control the activities performed. This part of the training module teaches you which patterns BPMN offers to support this and how they work.

Business Process Model and Notation - Level 2-part-3

30th of January 2025 - 15:00-19:30

The third and final part of this training module, discusses modelling elements for the most advanced process patterns. These elements typically affect a large scope of the process model, because they can coordinate the flow for many elements at once and relate elements that are potentially far apart. Besides building on many of the elementary things discussed in previous parts, this part will introduce error handling, how to span transactions in a process model and triggering subprocesses from events.