Bpmn 2.0 by Allweyer, Thomas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Table of Contents 1. BPMN – A Standard for Business Process Modeling

1.1 Why a Notation? 1.2 Development of BPMN 1.3 Contents of BPMN 2.0 1.4 Business-Level Models and Executable Models 1.5 About this Book

2. BPMN by Example

2.1 A First BPMN Model 2.2 BPMN Constructs Used 2.3 Sequence Flow Logic 2.4 Presentation Options 2.5 Appending Additional Information

3. Gateways: Splitting and Merging

3.1 Exclusive Gateway 3.2 Parallel Gateway 3.3 Different Process Instances at a Parallel Join 3.4 Inclusive Gateway 3.5 Complex Gateway

4. Splitting and Merging without Gateways

4.1 Splitting without Gateways 4.2 Merging without Gateways 4.3 Modeling with or without Gateways?

5. Collaborations

5.1 Example of a Collaboration 5.2 Modeling Message Flows 5.3 Message Flows to Black Box Pools 5.4 Private and Public Processes 5.5 Multi-Instance Participants 5.6 Use of Collaborations and Sequence Flows 5.7 Modeling Message Contents

6. Events

6.1 Example of the Use of Events 6.2 Start Events 6.3 End Events 6.4 Intermediate Events 6.5 Event-Based Decisions

7. Activities

7.1 Sub-Processes 7.2 Loops and Multi-Instance Activities 7.3 Ad-hoc Sub-Processes 7.4 Types of Tasks 7.5 Calling Processes and Global Tasks 7.6 Examples of Sub-Processes and Called Processes

8. Handling Exceptions

8.1 Interrupting Intermediate Events 8.2 Non-Interrupting Intermediate Events 8.3 Handling of Errors 8.4 Escalation Events 8.5 Event Sub-Processes

9. Transactions and Compensations

9.1 Modeling of Transactions 9.2 Direct Call of Compensations 9.3 Event Sub-Processes for Compensations 9.4 Use of Exceptions, Transactions, and Compensations

10. Data Objects in Processes

10.1 Modeling Data Flow 10.2 Multiple Data Objects 10.3 Data and Events 10.4 Data Stores 10.5 Passing Data to Called Activities 10.6 Use of Data Objects

11. Choreographies

11.1 Choreography Diagrams 11.2 Choreography within Collaboration 11.3 Choreography Sub-Processes 11.4 Gateways in Choreographies 11.5 Events in Choreographies 11.6 Calling Choreographies and Global Choreography Tasks 11.7 Use of Choreographies and Collaborations

12. Conversations

12.1 Conversation Diagrams 12.2 Message Correlations 12.3 Hierarchies of Conversations 12.4 Calling Global Conversations and Collaborations 12.5 Use of Conversation Diagrams

13. Artifacts and Extensions of BPMN

13.1 Artifacts 13.2 How to Extend BPMN

14. BPMN Modeling Patterns

14.1 Four Eyes Principle 14.2 Decisions in Sub-Processes 14.3 Tasks with Multiple Actors 14.4 Parallel Checks 14.5 Process Interfaces 14.6 Synchronizing Parallel Paths 14.7 Requests with Different Types of Replies 14.8 Processing Cancelations 14.9 Deadline Monitoring 14.10 Dunning Procedure 14.11 Call for Proposals

A. Bibliography B. BPMN in the Internet Index The Author Copyright