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 the course material.  Students earn points with every correct answer and “level up” as they progress.  Passing the BPMessentials certification exam will be a breeze for anyone completing bpmnPRO, and that was one major motivation for the new offering.  Even though we spend a lot of class time on exercises using a BPMN tool, there is simply not enough time available to do the number of repetitions required to completely master the various events and gateways and Method and Style rules.  bpmnPRO provides that in an engaging format with instant feedback to each quiz and puzzle.

bpmnPRO learners progress through 10 levels:

  1. Basics
  2. Pools and Lanes
  3. Subprocesses
  4. Parallel Flow
  5. Timer Events
  6. Message Events
  7. Error Events
  8. Event Subprocesses
  9. Iteration
  10. The BPMN Game

Most levels comprise 3 lessons of 16 short exercises each – multiple choice questions, pick one or pick many diagrams, and tool-less diagramming using BPMN tiles to model a given scenario.  A few levels have only 1 or 2 lessons.  You can miss up to 3 in each lesson; more than that, you need to re-do it.  The BPMN Game at the end is a selection of the harder puzzles in the course.  Even if you know BPMN cold it will take a few hours to get through bpmnPRO.  But it’s designed to work for people who start with no BPMN knowledge as well.

Beta of bpmnPRO will begin next week.  When it launches, bpmnPRO will be available to current BPMessentials students for $49, and to non-students for $199.   Students from my July class are in the beta group, and students from my September class will get it for free.

bpmnPRO runs on PC, Mac, and mobile devices, and no additional BPMN tools are required.  Everything is self-contained.  Shortly after launch, we’re planning a leaderboard and bpmnPRO community sharing discussions about the eLearning, new examples, and all things BPMN.

Of course, the class offers more than just bpmnPRO.  You’ll learn how to create “good BPMN”, diagrams that communicate the process logic clearly, completely, and consistently, so you can get your whole team on the same page.  After the class, students have 60 days to complete the certification, in which students mail in models meeting certain requirements for my review and approval.  If not good enough, they need to fix and resubmit.  This certification period (which also includes an exam) is where most students truly internalize the teaching.  bpmnPRO is just a way to streamline that process a bit.