BPMN Training and Certification

Overview

This BPMN Method and Style course is recognized as the world leader in BPMN training and certification. Since its inception in 2007, we have trained thousands of business analysts, business architects, BPM consultants, and process engineers worldwide in the correct approach to process modeling. Numerous individuals (over a thousand) have have successfully passed our rigorous certification process.

Method and Style does more than just teach the vocabulary of BPMN, such as the meaning of shapes and symbols. It provides a methodology for creating consistently well-structured models that are clear, complete, and shareable between business and IT. This approach also emphasizes important elements of BPMN style, ensuring that process logic is communicated unambiguously through the diagram alone. The approach is detailed in the 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 includes hands-on exercises in a BPMN tool and quizzes to reinforce practical application.

Training Delivery and Certification

The primary delivery format for BPMN Method and Style training is self-paced web/on-demand, using videos with accompanying exercises using the Trisotech Workflow Modeler, a component of Trisotech’s Digital Enterprise Suite, a cloud/browser-based tool. This format provides full BPMN training based on the proven Method and Style approach, complete with individualized post-class certification.

Key Learning Objectives

In this course, you will learn three key aspects of BPMN:

1. BPMN Vocabulary: The shapes and symbols you need, with a focus on eliminating those you don’t.

2. Method: A systematic approach to turning notes gathered from stakeholder workshops and interviews into a properly structured digital asset that communicates clearly to all stakeholders, including other project teams, business, and IT.

3. BPMN Style: Conventions designed to ensure the meaning of the process logic is clear from the printed diagrams alone, even to those unfamiliar with BPMN. These conventions are framed as additional rules that are validated in the Trisotech Workflow Modeler.

Intended Audience

Contrary to popular belief, BPMN is not “too complicated” for business users. It does not require a technical background, just a disciplined approach and attention to detail. Our student population is about evenly split between business users on one side and business analysts and architects on the other.

The Method and Style approach is designed for business analysts and architects, enabling them to use BPMN to effectively communicate process logic to stakeholders across both business and IT teams.

What is included

The web/on-demand training includes the following:

• Approximately 10-15 hours of instruction, assuming all exercises are completed

• 60-day access to the Trisotech platform, including BPMN tools

• In-class exercises using the tools, with interactive discussions about the solutions

• “Watch me do this” ScreenCam videos to explain the mechanics of the tool

• PDF student notes

• Post-class certification based on an online exam and a mail-in exercise, involving one-on-one interaction

Course Outline

1. What Is BPMN?

2. BPMN by Example

3. Concepts and the Method

4. BPMN Style

5. Parallel Flow

6. Events

7. Iteration

8. Following the Rules

9. Certification and Beyond

To get a better idea of what is included, check out this video of Part 1, Training Overview.

Certification requirements

Certification requires the successful completion of an online exam and a mail-in exercise that must be iteratively refined until it meets the necessary standards. Certification is included in the training at no additional cost, and students who fulfill the requirements are awarded BPMN Professional certification.

Students have 60 days from the date of purchase to complete the course material and certification.

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