BPMN 2 0 Tutorial PDF

Business Process Mapping
using the BPMN 2.0

Modelling Notation
Tutorial
CRaG BPMN 2.0 Tutorial

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Contents
BPMN and Business Process Diagrams (BPD)
Private Processes
Start and End Events
Activities and Sequence Flows
Exclusive Gateways
Intermediate Events
Public Processes, Pools and Lanes
Message Flows
Collaboration Processes
Sub-processes
Parallel Gateways
Process Steps as Tasks
Human versus System Pools
Choreographies, Conversations and BPEL
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The Business Process
Model and Notation
Syntax only
Process independent
Tool independent
Developed by the OMG
Also responsible for
UML
SysML
Version 1.0 - May 2004 - adopted 6/2/06
Version 1.1 - Feb 2008
Version 2.0 - Jan 2011 - current
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Business Process Diagram (BPD)
payment rejected
Customer Enquiry
Received Offer Accepted
Handle Enquiry Make Offer Process Order Process Payment
payment accepted
new vehicle
Run Pre-Delivery Register Vehicle Tax Vehicle Deliver Vehicle
Check
Sale Complete
pre-owned vehicle
Sell Vehicle
Private Process Sequence Flows

Start and End Events Exclusive Gateways
Activities Intermediate Events
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Private Processes
payment rejected
Customer Enquiry
Received Offer Accepted
Handle Enquiry Make Offer Process Order Process Payment
Internal to a specific organisation

Does not show explicit interaction with external entities
Non-executable
Modelled for the purpose of documenting process behaviour at a
modeller-defined level of detail
Executable
Modelled for the purpose of being executed in business process
management or other system
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Start and End Events
An event is instantaneous
Mostly a status phrase e.g. Customer Enquiry
Received
Customer Enquiry Received Handle Enquiry

Deliver Vehicle
Sale Complete Sale Complete
Maybe a command e.g.

Start Process
Often associated with the arrival or
Handle Enquiry
sending of information Customer Enquiry Received
Start Event
Indicates where a process will start Deliver Vehicle Sale Complete
Optional but recommended
No incoming sequence flows

Message Received Start Event
May be more than one
End Events Timer Start Event Common
Indicates where a path of a process Variants
will end Message Sent End Event
No outgoing sequence flows

Optional but recommended Cancel End Event
May be more than one

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Activities and Sequence Flows
Handle Enquiry Make Offer
An activity is work that is performed within a business process

A sequence flow shows the order in which activities will be
performed in a business process
It defines the end of one activity and the beginning of the next
No activity occurs on the sequence flow
Think of a sequence flow as the thread of activity
A sequence flow is normally only named if it is the outgoing flow
from a gateway
Use an event or a conditional sequence flow to qualify it

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Exclusive Gateways
new vehicle
Run Pre-Delivery Register Vehicle Tax Vehicle
Check
pre-owned vehicle
Gateways control the flow of the thread of activity

1-N sequence flow in (merging of flows)
1-N sequence flow out (switching of flows)
Can be named with a question X
Can occur sequentially Explicitly Exclusive
No work is done in a gateway

A simple gateway is exclusive by default
An exclusive gateway has non-overlapping conditions defined for
each possible exit
Think of it as switching the flow
If no condition is met the thread is held up
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Intermediate Events
Indicate where something Offer Accepted
happens between the start Make Offer Process Order
and end of a process

Indicates the termination of
the previous activity or the
start of the next
All events are instantaneous Offer Accepted
and no work is done Make Offer Process Order
May occur as the result of

receiving or sending data Message Received
(message flows) Message Sent

Common
May be throw or catch Timer Event Variants
Activity edge event is catch
only
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Customer
Public Processes
Customer Enquiry Offer Payment Vehicle

Customer Response
Salesperson
Handle Enquiry Make Offer Process Order Register Vehicle
Customer Offer Accepted

Enquiry
Received
Accounts Clerk
Car Dealership
Process Payment Tax Vehicle

payment rejected new vehicle
payment accepted
Mechanic
Deliver Vehicle
Run Pre-Delivery
Check
pre-owned vehicle Sale Complete
Pools, lanes and message flows

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Pools and Lanes
Pools represent participants in
Customer
a collaboration
Pools may be empty (black
box), or show a process Customer enquiry Offer
A public process shows
external entities as empty
Salesperson
pools with messages to and Handle Enquiry Make Offer
from the pool Customer

Enquiry
Offer Acc
Lanes may be used to organise Received
activities within a pool
Accounts Clerk
Car Dealership
The meaning of the lanes is up
Process Payment
to the modeller
Lanes may be nested e.g. a payment accepted
role within a department Mechanic
The assignment of an activity

to a pool or lane indicates the
allocation of responsibility

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Customer Message Flows
Customer Response
Customer enquiry Offer Payment
Salesperson
Handle Enquiry Make offer Process Order Register Vehicle

Enquiry
Received
are used to show the flow of messages between two participants in a

collaboration
must connect two separate pools and not two objects within the same pool
connect either to the pool boundary or to flow objects within the pool
may have an attached message
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Customer
Collaboration Process
Customer Enquiry Payment
Offer Customer Response Vehicle
Salesperson

Process Order

Enquiry
Received
payment rejected
Car Dealership
Accounts
Process Payment Register Vehicle Tax Vehicle

Clerk
payment accepted new vehicle

pre-owned vehicle
Mechanic
Deliver Vehicle
Run Pre-Delivery
Check
Sale
Complete
Registration Registration Document Tax Disc

Application Tax Application
Licensing
Authority
Vehicle
Registration Application Handle Registration Process Tax

Received Request Application
Registration Tax
Document Application Tax Disc Sent
Sent Received

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Collaboration Process
Customer
Customer Enquiry Payment
Offer Customer Response Vehicle
Salesperson
Process Order

Enquiry
Received
payment rejected
Car Dealership
Accounts
Process Payment Register Vehicle Tax Vehicle
Clerk
payment accepted new vehicle
pre-owned vehicle
Mechanic
Deliver Vehicle
Run Pre-Delivery
Check
Sale
Complete
Registration Registration Document Tax Disc

Application Tax Application
Licensing
Authority
Vehicle
Registration Application Handle Registration Process Tax

Received Request Application
Registration Tax
Document Application Tax Disc Sent
Sent Received
Shows the internal processes of more than one participant (pool) in

the collaboration.
The participants can be different organisations or different
departments within the same organisation
Message flows can cross the pool boundary to attach to the
appropriate activity or event in another pool
Start and end events for each pool
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Process with Sub-Processes
Customer
Customer enquiry Quotation Customer Payment Vehicle
Acceptance
Dealership
Take Order Prepare Vehicle
Car
Customer Payment Sale

Enquiry Accepted Complete
Received
Registration Tax
Registration
Application Application Tax Disc
Document
Licensing
Authority
Vehicle
Take Order and Prepare Vehicle are collapsed sub-processes

A collapsed sub-process can be opened up to show a lower-level process
either as a separate process diagram, or on the parent process diagram
The events starting and ending the parent activities should be consistent
with the child diagrams
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Concurrency: Parallel Gateway
Mechanic
Run Pre-Delivery Deliver Vehicle
Check
Car Dealership
Payment Accepted
Sale Complete
pre-owned vehicle
Accounts
Tax Vehicle
Clerk
new Register Vehicle

vehicle
Splits thread (token) into parallel paths

Following activities all start immediately
Each prior state must be complete at the merging gateway for the
thread to continue
Re-sync the threads with a parallel gateway before leaving the
diagram

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Process Steps as Tasks
Customer Enquiry
Vehicle Enquiry
Received Record Found? Registered? Handled
Facilitate Choice of Search for Customer Yes Record Make and No
Vehicle Record Model
No Yes
Handle Enquiry Steps Create New

Record Vehicle
Registration
Customer Record
Tasks are activities that do not decompose Abstract Task Send Task
User task is performed by a human with the

assistance of an application Manual Task Receive Task
Service task uses a web-service or automated

application User task Business Rule Task
Business rule task provides input to and gets

output from a business rules engine Service Task Script Task
Script task executed by a business process engine

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Human versus System Pools
Salesperson
Facilitate Choice of Record Enquiry

Vehicle
Customer Enquiry Handled
Enquiry
Received
Record Enquiry Request Enquiry Recorded
Vehicle
Record Found? Registered?
Search for Customer Yes Record Make and No Enquiry

Record Model Recorded
Sales System
Record Enquiry
Request No
Yes
Record Vehicle
Create New Registration
Customer Record
Optional grouping of user/automated tasks into a system pool

May show data flow between user and system for each step
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Choreographies and
Conversations
Car Dealership Vehicle Licensing Authority Car Dealership Vehicle Licensing Authority
Registration Application Registration Document Tax Application Tax Disc
New Vehicle Tax Disc

Vehicle Licensing Authority Car Dealership Vehicle Licensing Authority Car Dealership Received
Choreography
Added in version 2.0

Choreography emphasises Car Dealership Vehicle Licensing
Authority
the messaging between pools License Vehicle
in a collaboration process
Conversations show Tax Vehicle
collections of choreographies Conversation

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Business Process Execution
Language (BPEL)
Allows the process to be
exported as source for
Business Process <wsdl:portType name="[if-name]">
Management system <operation name="[op1-name]">
Also WS-BPEL for Web <wsdl:input message="[msg1i-name]" />
Services <wsdl:output message="[msg1o-name]" />
<wsdl:fault name="[error1a-faultname]"
Not all BPMN processes message="[error1a-name]" />
will map to BPEL ...
The process must be </operation>
sound (executable) ...
No deadlocks </wsdl:portType>
No lack of synchronisation

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Business Process Mapping

using the BPMN 2.0

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Handle Enquiry Make Offer Process Order Process Payment

Private Process Sequence Flows

Handle Enquiry Make Offer Process Order Process Payment

Internal to a specific organisation

Customer Enquiry Received Handle Enquiry

Sale Complete Sale Complete

Maybe a command e.g.

No outgoing sequence flows

May be more than one

Handle Enquiry Make Offer

An activity is work that is performed within a business process

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Gateways control the flow of the thread of activity

No work is done in a gateway

happens between the start Make Offer Process Order

and end of a process

and no work is done Make Offer Process Order

May occur as the result of

(message flows) Message Sent

Customer Enquiry Offer Payment Vehicle

Handle Enquiry Make Offer Process Order Register Vehicle

Customer Offer Accepted

Process Payment Tax Vehicle

Pools, lanes and message flows

from the pool Customer

Lanes may be used to organise Received

activities within a pool

The assignment of an activity

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Handle Enquiry Make offer Process Order Register Vehicle

Customer Offer Accepted

are used to show the flow of messages between two participants in a

Handle Enquiry Make Offer

Customer Offer Accepted

Process Payment Register Vehicle Tax Vehicle

payment accepted new vehicle

Registration Registration Document Tax Disc

Registration Application Handle Registration Process Tax

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Customer Offer Accepted

Registration Registration Document Tax Disc

Registration Application Handle Registration Process Tax

Shows the internal processes of more than one participant (pool) in

Customer Payment Sale

Take Order and Prepare Vehicle are collapsed sub-processes

new Register Vehicle

Splits thread (token) into parallel paths

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Handle Enquiry Steps Create New

User task is performed by a human with the

Service task uses a web-service or automated

Business rule task provides input to and gets

Script task executed by a business process engine

Facilitate Choice of Record Enquiry

Record Enquiry Request Enquiry Recorded

Search for Customer Yes Record Make and No Enquiry

Optional grouping of user/automated tasks into a system pool

Registration Application Registration Document Tax Application Tax Disc

New Vehicle Tax Disc

Added in version 2.0