Chapter 3. BPMN for Business Process Modeling
This chapter will introduce the foundations of business process modeling using a standards-based approach. In this chapter, we will discuss the concepts of using BPMN, a standard developed by the Object Management Group (OMG), especially from a practitioner's perspective.
The Need for Standards in Business Process Modeling
When we look at a business process, it's always from a certain perspective, a view of how a series of activities are performed in an organization. A picture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to process elicitation, nothing beats a neat graphical representation.
Business communities have been using different techniques to graphically represent processes, mostly flowcharts. ...
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