My BPMN Method and Style course is the world leader in BPMN training and certification.  Since it began in 2007, we have trained thousands of business analysts, business architects, BPM consultants, and process engineers around the globe  in the right way to do process modeling, and over 1300 have passed our rigorous certification.  Today the training is offered in a variety of delivery formats and on a choice of BPMN tools, all following the same Method and Style approach.

Method and Style does more than teach the vocabulary of BPMN – the meaning of the shapes and symbols.  It also provides a methodology for creating consistently well-structured models that are clear, complete, and shareable between business and IT, and teaches important elements of BPMN style that ensure the process logic is communicated unambiguously from the diagram on its own.  The approach is described in detail in my books BPMN Method and Style, 2nd Edition, with BPMN Implementer’s Guide, the most popular BPMN 2.0 book on the market, and the more recent BPMN Quick and Easy.  The training contains exercises in a BPMN tool and quizzes that teach you how to put it into practice.

While BPMN can be used as a programming language for process automation, for most users that is not what it is about.  Its actual primary purpose is to communicate process logic clearly through the diagram.  The complete element set of BPMN 2.0 includes too many task, gateway, and event types, and only about half of them are ever used.   We show you which ones you really need.  And we show you how to create models that are structurally correct. Core concepts like activity and process have a very specific meaning in BPMN, but that meaning is not clearly explained in the spec, often leading to models containing fundamental structure errors.

Learning to create “good BPMN” – models that communicate the process logic clearly, correctly, and consistently through the diagram – does not require technical knowledge, just a disciplined approach and attention to detail.  Just as with any language, you can’t learn to “speak” it properly by reading a book.  You need to be hands-on with a tool.  We have exercises throughout the training, and a major mail-in exercise in the post-class certification period.  The tools we use in the training – Process Modeler for Visio from itp commerce, an add-in to Microsoft Visio, Trisotech, and Signavio, cloud-based tools accessed through a web browser – all incorporate Method and Style validation.  Without this, my personal review of the certification exercises would be impossible.  Actually, the certification process is where the classroom teaching really begins to sink in.

The training is offered in a variety of formats or delivery channels.  The course content, exercises, and post-class certification is the same regardless of the format.

  • Private 2-day class onsite, available worldwide in English.  The base price includes training and certification for up to 15 students at the client’s site.  Client may specify any of the 3 tools.  Live training may include an optional post-class workshop focused on the client’s actual process models in development.
  • Private 3-day live-online for groups of 10 or more, scheduled at your convenience.  Students have a choice of tools.  Students view the training through GoToMeeting and perform in-class exercises in another window.
  • Online on-demand video training, self-paced.  We now have two versions of the training.  The content and certification requirements are identical.  The first version uses the new ViziModeler tool from itp-commerce, an add-in to Microsoft Visio.  Click here to register for this version.  The second uses the Trisotech BPMN Modeler, which is cloud/browser-based.  Click here to register for this version.