BPMN method and style : with BPMN implementer's guide /
Bruce Silver.
- 2nd ed.
- USA : Cody-Cassidy Press, 2011.
- xii, 269 p. : ill. b&w ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Pt. 1. What is BPMN? -- Ch. 1. Bad BPMN, good BPMN -- Ch. 2. How does a model mean? -- Pt. 2. Method and style – Level 1 -- Ch. 3. BPMN by example -- Ch. 4. The level 1 palette -- Ch. 5. The method -- Ch. 6. BPMN style -- Pt. 3. Method and style – Level 2 -- Ch. 7. Events -- Ch. 8. Iteration and instance alignment -- Ch. 9. Process splitting and merging -- Ch. 10. Transactions -- Ch. 11. The rules of BPMN -- Pt. 4. BPMN implementer's guide – Non-executable BPMN -- Ch. 12. BPMN 2.0 metamodel and schema -- Ch. 13. Process modeling conformance subclasses -- Ch. 14. BPMN serialization basics -- Ch. 15. Serializing process elements -- Ch. 16. Serializing data flow -- Ch. 17. The BPMNDI graphical model -- Ch. 18. BPMN-I -- Pt. 5. BPMN implementer's guide -- Executable BPMN -- Ch. 19. What is executable BPMN? -- Ch. 20. Variables and data mapping -- Ch. 21. Services, messages, and events -- Ch. 22. Human tasks -- Ch. 23. Executable BPMN in practice -- Ch. 24. Aligning executable design with BPMN method and style.
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.
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