Bpmn Method and Style, 2nd Edition, with Bpmn Implementer's Guide: A Structured Approach for Business Process Modeling and Implementation Using Bpmn 2 by Bruce Silver
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. Editorial Reviews From the Back Cover Although BPMN is widely accepted as the language of choice for business process diagrams, few process modelers know how to use it correctly or effectively.  This book shows you how.  It explains the shapes and symbols you need to know, and which ones you can ignore.  It provides a prescriptive, top-down methodology for turning a blank page into a complete process model.  And it explains the elements of BPMN style, principles of composition that make your models not only correct per the BPMN 2.0 specification but easily understood without reference to attached documentation.  The Method and Style approach allows BPMN models to be shared across the business, or between business and IT, revealing the process logic consistently and unambiguously from the diagram alone.   The second half of the book, the BPMN Implementer's Guide, is addressed to developers and BPMN tool vendors.  It explains the XML underneath the shapes and symbols, including the BPMN 2.0 metamodel and schema, the Descriptive and Analytic Process Modeling Conformance subclasses, and the BPMN-I Profile for interoperability between tools.  Few tools serialize BPMN correctly, but the Implementer's Guide shows you how, both for non-executable and executable process models.   The Method and Style section is completely rewritten from the first edition, incorporating feedback from hundreds of students in BPMN training.  The BPMN Implementer's Guide is brand new in the Second Edition. About the Author Bruce Silver is founder and principal of BPMessentials, 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 BPMS Watch website (brsilver) is a popular source of news and commentary about all matters related to BPMN and BPM Suites.
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Published by: Cody-Cassidy Press: , 2011
Edition: Second edition
ISBN: 9780982368114 | 0982368119
286 pages.
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