BPMN Method and Style: A levels-based methodology for BPM process modeling and improvement using BPMN 2.0 |  | Author: Bruce Silver
Publisher: Cody-Cassidy Press
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Creating business process models that can be shared effectively across the business - and between business and IT - demands more than a digest of BPMN shapes and symbols. It requires a step-by-step methodology for going from a blank page to a complete process diagram. It also requires consistent application of a modeling style, so that the modeler's meaning is clear from the diagram itself. Author Bruce Silver explains not only the meaning and proper usage of the entire BPMN 2.0 palette, but calls out the working subset that you really need to know. He also reveals the hidden assumptions of core concepts left unexplained in the spec, the key to BPMN's deeper meaning. The book addresses BPMN at three levels, with primary focus on the first two. Level 1, or descriptive BPMN, uses a basic working set of shapes and symbols to meet the needs of business users doing process mapping. Level 2, or analytical BPMN, is aimed at business analysts and architects. It takes advantage of BPMN's expressiveness for detailing event and exception handling, key to analyzing and improving process performance and quality. Level 3, or executable BPMN, is brand new in BPMN 2.0. Here the XML underneath the diagram shapes becomes an executable design can be deployed to a process engine to automate the process. The method and style detailed in the book aligns these three levels, facilitating business-IT collaboration throughout the process lifecycle. Inside the book you'll find discussions, illustrated with over 100 examples, about: The questions BPMN asks, and does not ask The meaning of basic concepts like starting and completing, sending and receiving, waiting and listening Subprocesses and hierarchical modeling style The five basic steps in creating Level 1 models Event and exception-handling patterns Branching and merging patterns Level 2 modeling method Elements of BPMN style: element usage and diagram composition
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 Making a mold hill out of the BPMN 2.0 mountain October 19, 2009
S. Paakki (Brisbane, Australia)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I recently faced the task of analysing the notational differences between the BPMN 1.0 and 2.0 specifications, along with creating selection criteria for the use of either. Bruce Silver made this readily possible with his concise and well thought out guide to "BPMN Method and Style".
There is a dearth of practical information and academic research on the 2.0 spec at this point in time, compared with the mountainous 500+ page proposed specification. This book delivers a prescriptive approach to the reader detailing how hierarchical models can be created by domain experts, then be expanded upon by a business process analyst and finally enhanced by a workflow developer for potential execution.
In the author's own words, to try and learn BPMN by reading the specification is akin to trying to learn how to write a story by reading a dictionary. The method for starting with a blank page and modelling the "Happy Path", adding exception flows for semantic correctness, and finally creating an executable model in BPMN 2.0 is given with a well structured approach. Where the spec lacks detail or contains ambiguities with how certain notational elements might, or should, be applied; this book steers the reader with advice on developing a consistent style, which could be adopted into one's own modelling conventions.
If you are searching for guidance from the trenches giving detailed advice and concrete examples, from simple to advanced BPMN notational elements and constructs, then this is the first book you should add to your library.
Indispensable guide to using BPMN July 26, 2009
Aron Wilson (Tucson, AZ United States)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I would say that anyone who is or will be using BPMN should own this book. Just as Strunk & White's guide for writing became the standard reference, I expect this book to become required reading for those wishing to create effective business process diagrams.
Bruce Silver provides practical guidance for creating usable BPMN diagrams that enable shared understanding between business and technical users. He effectively translates the BPMN spec and workflow pattern theory into clear examples and guidelines. This book is an excellent reference for how to use BPMN consistently, thus ensuring a high return on the time invested in creating process diagrams.
Practical and Immediately Useful June 23, 2009
Daniel L. Atwood (Dallas, TX)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Bruce Silver's new book is a practical and useful guide that has been missing and much needed by the process modeling community. You can easily get started using BPMN using 3 basic activities. From an executive, manager or business person's perspective, these 3 activities might be enough, but too often I hear a business analyst or IT person tell me that BPMN does not support some modeling construct. It's usually because they've tried going beyond the 3 basic activities and have been unsuccessful learning BPMN using the OMG specification (it's a bit like trying to learn how to speak English using a dictionary). This book addresses one of the challenges we all have with BPMN and process modeling in the beginning - that is how to combine the robust set of activities to form the processes that describe my business. Every business analyst and IT person modeling business processes using BPMN should be familar with this book.
The First Good BPMN Book! June 15, 2009
Paul Harmon, Editor, Business Process Trends (San Francisco, CA, USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
There have been several books on BPMN that just repeat the information that is available in the OMG specification which you can download, for free, from the OMG website. This is the first book on BPMN that I can enthusiastically recommend. Bruce Sliver has been writing and teaching people to use BPMN for several years now. He has put what he has learned into this book. It teaches you about the elements of BPMN, but much more important, it teaches you how to use BPMN. It teaches you how to approach problems and gives you guidelines for what constitutes a good BPMN style. Moreover, it provides a separate methodology for both business people and for technical developers. Finally, it's the first BPMN book to describe the latest version of BPMN - 2.0. If you want to learn to use BPMN, this is the book to buy and study.
Paul Harmon, Executive Editor, BPTrends website
Nice introduction to BPMN January 26, 2010
Patrick Carroll (Atlanta, GA USA)
I do a bit of technical design using Enterprise Architect (EA) from SparxSystems. I spend a fair amount of time trying to relate text-based functional system descriptions (FSDs) provided by business analysts to sequence and class diagrams.
I recently realized that EA allows you to describe business processes using BPMN, and relate the processes to later-stage design artifacts. So, I bought this book to get up to speed on BPMN, so I might work on describing business processes implied in text-based FSDs at a more abstract level.
The book's a good introduction. Short, but with decent examples. I found it quite easy to work the examples in EA.
I recommend it as a gentle introduction to BPMN.
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