I received an email today from a reader asking: "If you have multiple call activities that occur within a process pool, is there any reason you can't create another pool for Call Activities and use that to group the call activities / processes, other than the fact that a sequence flow connection cannot be used?" [...]
In my recent post about what is a message, I omitted one important aspect: the addressee. Unlike its close cousin signal, a message definitely has one! But once again, the BPMN spec does not explain what the addressee of a message means. The closest it gets is to say that the target of a message [...]
Message is another fundamental BPMN concept that is not well explained in the spec. Section 8.3.11 defines a message as "the content of a communication between two Participants [in a collaboration]". As explained last time, "Participants" here means the process on one end and some entity external to the process on the other end. The [...]
Perhaps the greatest failing of the BPMN 2.0 spec is the inadequate explanation of its most fundamental concept: process. That failure lies at the root of so much confusion and modeler error. A process in BPMN has four distinct aspects: as an "orchestration", as a collaboration "participant", as a container of activity performers, and as [...]
Over the summer I have been hard at work on a new kind of BPMN training, an app completely based on gamification. Today it's ready and open to the public. Called bpmnPRO, it covers the same material as my BPMessentials BPMN Method and Style training, but in a complementary way. In addition to explaining how [...]
I just found out about the great discounts available for my 2-day BPMN Method and Style training in Chicago October 16-17. Most 2-day BPMN training goes for $1895 and up. Yes that's pricey. But BPM.com, host of my live class at their iBPMS Expo, has some really attractive pricing. If it's just you, the price [...]
Once I had bpmnPRO, my new gamified eLearning app, done in Storyline, I figured integrating it with my Wordpress website would be easy, since Wordpress has a plugin for just about everything. But I had no idea what I was in for... I knew I needed the following: A way for users to try out bpmnPRO [...]
If you like your BPMN training live in-person, here is your chance. In conjunction with BPM.com's iBPMS Expo, I am doing my two-day BPMessentials BPMN Method and Style training, including post-class certification, live in Chicago on October 16-17. Early bird pricing for the training is $1395 until September 20, so you need to get right [...]
For the past couple months I have been heads down working on bpmnPRO, a new gamified eLearning app. I described the rationale for it in a previous post. Basically it's a way to prepare for the BPMessentials BPMN Method and Style certification exam. But I expect there will be some demand from others who haven't [...]
Students in my September BPMessentials BPMN Method and Style live-online class will get a free login to bpmnPRO, my new gamified eLearning offering. The class runs September 9-11 from 11am to 4pm each day ET, 5pm-10pm CET. Click here to register. bpmnPRO complements the lecture and in-class exercises with hundreds of exercises and puzzles covering [...]