Chapter 4. BPMN—Advance Constructs

The chapter will go into the details of using events and other main BPMN elements, and how they fit together to represent a business process. This section will define how the common BPMN patterns are to be used by analysts to represent scenarios typically seen in an organization.

Business Process Modeling General Guidelines

Before we move further, it's really important to understand some of the rules that are helpful while modeling and designing our business processes. In this section, we will look into some main modeling rules from the perspective of modeling a process, and the instructions specified by BPMN and supported by Oracle BPA.

Rule #1: Process Models Should Provide Aid in Process Understanding

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