BPMN 2.0
BPMN 2.0: events, gateways and process notation
Business Process Model and Notation: events, gateways, pools and the flows between them - the notation business and IT are both supposed to be able to read.
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What is BPMN?
A working introduction to BPMN 2.0: the five families of symbol, the difference between sequence flow and message flow, pools and lanes, the three levels of modelling, and when BPMN beats a UML activity diagram.
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BPMN, one symbol set at a time
- 02EventsHow BPMN events work: start, intermediate and end by border weight, the message, timer, error, signal and conditional types by interior glyph, throwing versus catching, and boundary events as the way to model exceptions.Behaviour diagrams8 min read
- 03GatewaysThe BPMN gateway types explained: exclusive, parallel, inclusive, event-based and complex, splitting versus merging, default flows, and why an unbalanced inclusive gateway is the classic way to deadlock a process.Notation reference9 min read
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