Business Process Modelling Fundamentals (BPML)

AIMED AT: Business and Systems Analysts, Business Process Analysts, Process Owners, Project Leaders, Business Managers and Information Technology (IT) Professionals.
TARGET INDUSTRIES: ICT, IT, banking, finance, healthcare, insurance, and government.
DURATION: 4 sessions (2 full days or 4 evenings, depending on the calendar and roll-out schedule).
DELIVERY: Virtual live, instructor-led learning with a workshop-style approach for increased delegate collaboration and skills transfer.
GROUP SIZE PRECONDITION: Delivered on request for minimum group sizes of ten.
PROGRAMME CUSTOMISATION: Can be customised to suit a group or organisation’s unique requirements.
FOCUS: Intensive short programme for accelerated professional development.
DELEGATE INVOLVEMENT: It demands an elevated level of discipline and commitment to complete the programme. Full attendance and participation are required for all sessions.

The Business Process Modelling Landscape

• Terminology and concepts: Business Process Management, analysis, and modelling
• The business process view: the key to understanding business
• History and background of business process management
• Analysis and modelling (standards, roadmaps, frameworks, and approaches)
• Business process modelling in the software lifecycle
• BPMN as an emerging standard and its mapping to other methods and standards (e.g. ARIS, UML, IDEF)
  

The Strategic Context for BPM

• The organisational and enterprise context of business processes
• Extracting value from business process modelling
• Process stakeholders, roles and responsibilities
• Organisational architectures to support process initiatives (Linking BPM to Strategy) and the role of process in enterprise architecture.

Modelling Business Activity

• Core business process modelling notation (activities, events, flows, gateways, swim lanes and pools).
• Data gathering for process modelling: setting context and objectives and framing and scoping the context of process models.
• Identifying business events.
• Process levels, diagrams and modelling current “as-is” business processes.