BPM Training in Christchurch

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (online or on-site) is designed for advanced-level participants who wish to integrate Drools 8 with jBPM to design, execute, and optimise business workflows and processes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up Drools 8 and jBPM environments for development.
• Define and manage complex business rules in Drools 8.
• Design and execute workflows using jBPM.
• Integrate Drools rules into jBPM processes for dynamic decision-making.
• Optimise and troubleshoot rule-driven workflows.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (delivered online or on-site) is designed for beginner to intermediate-level business analysts who want to use DSLs in Drools 8 to define, manage, and optimise business rules without relying heavily on technical programming skills.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core concepts of Drools 8 and its architecture.
• Create DSLs to simplify business rule definitions for non-technical users.
• Manage, test, and maintain rules effectively using Drools Workbench.
• Collaborate with technical teams to implement and refine business rules.
• Apply best practices for rule optimisation and lifecycle management.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (online or on-site) is designed for advanced-level participants who wish to optimise rule execution, integrate Drools with enterprise systems, and leverage advanced features such as decision tables and domain-specific languages (DSLs).

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Optimise the performance of complex rule execution.
• Utilise advanced Drools features such as decision tables, DSLs, and rule templates.
• Integrate Drools seamlessly with enterprise applications and external systems.
• Implement robust version control and collaboration mechanisms for rule development.
• Design and deploy scalable Drools-based solutions to meet enterprise needs.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (online or on-site) is designed for intermediate-level participants who wish to build and manage complex business rules, optimise rule execution, and effectively handle rule dependencies using Drools 8.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create advanced business rules and manage their dependencies.
• Implement decision-making logic using Drools rule groups and agendas.
• Optimise the performance of rule execution in Drools.
• Use advanced Drools Workbench features for rule management.
• Integrate Drools with external data sources and systems.

Modeling and Documentation for Business Analysis is a practical course focused on the standard modelling languages and tools used to capture, visualise, and validate business requirements and processes.

This instructor-led, live training (online or on-site) is designed for professionals with limited or no prior experience in modelling who wish to apply industry-standard techniques—such as UML, BPMN, and wireframing tools—to enhance clarity and communication in business analysis projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use UML diagrams to represent functional requirements and system behaviour.
• Model business processes using BPMN standards.
• Create clear and structured use case diagrams and documentation.
• Design wireframes and interactive prototypes using Figma and Balsamiq.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussion.
• Hands-on practice with modelling tools in sample project scenarios.
• Guided exercises focused on process, requirements, and UI modelling.

Course Customisation Options

• To request a customised training session for this course tailored to your organisation's standards or preferred toolset, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (online or onsite) is aimed at project managers at all levels who wish to gain Green Belt certification knowledge in BPMN to streamline project workflows, improve process efficiency, and ensure compliance with business standards.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core concepts and components of BPMN 2.0.
• Create and interpret BPMN diagrams to represent business processes.
• Optimise workflows using best practices in BPMN modelling.
• Identify and eliminate inefficiencies in business processes.
• Integrate BPMN into project management and process improvement initiatives.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level business analysts who wish to gain practical knowledge of Celonis for process mining, optimisation, and automation, empowering them to unlock efficiencies and enhance business performance.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of process mining and how to use Celonis effectively.
• Integrate data sources, discover, and visualise processes.
• Gain expertise in analysing processes using KPIs and benchmarks.
• Automate workflows and leverage Celonis Action Engine for task automation.
• Build and customise dashboards and reports for real-time monitoring.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (delivered online or onsite) is designed for beginner-level participants who wish to learn the fundamentals of Drools 8, set it up, and create simple business rules to support better decision-making and automation.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of using Drools 8.
• Set up the Drools environment and integrate it with applications.
• Create, test, and deploy simple business rules.
• Use Drools Workbench for rule management and decision tables.
• Implement Drools in real-world scenarios to automate decisions.

This course has been developed for business analysts seeking to apply BPMN 2.0 extensively within their projects.

It emphasises the practical aspects of the full BPMN 2.0 specification, along with the implementation of common patterns.

The course consists of a series of short lectures followed by hands-on exercises: participants will be presented with a problem described in English and tasked with creating an appropriate BPMN diagram for each scenario. These diagrams will then be reviewed, discussed, and assessed collectively by the group and the trainer.

This course does not cover the execution aspects of BPMN; instead, it focuses on analysis and process design within the BPMN 2.0 framework.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (online or onsite) is designed for beginner-level participants who wish to learn essential concepts in probability, statistics, programming, and machine learning, and apply them to AI development.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp fundamental concepts in probability and statistics and apply them to real-world scenarios.
• Write and understand procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming code.
• Implement machine learning techniques such as classification, clustering, and neural networks.
• Develop AI solutions using rules engines and expert systems to tackle problem-solving tasks.

This course sits at the intersection of administration and Information Technology, incorporating tools and techniques for designing, implementing, controlling, and analysing operational business processes—typically involving individuals, organisations, and software applications.
The course includes practical assignments; participants will be introduced to key topics during theory sessions, which will be reinforced through hands-on exercises.

What will you learn?
1. The fundamentals of BPM
2. BPM implementation strategies
3. Process modelling, analysis, and design
4. Governance and business strategy
5. Modelling processes using BPMN
6. Business rules
 

Audience:

Managers seeking to make informed decisions regarding Business Process Management (BPM), business consultants, business analysts, business process engineers, system analysts, and anyone involved in analysing and planning business processes.

Course Goals:

• How to boost productivity and effectiveness
• How to strengthen business process compliance and governance
• How to enhance business process agility and enable adaptability to change
• How to scale best practices more effectively across a dynamic organisation
• How to improve communication, collaboration, and coordination among teams
• How to gain greater visibility into the process pipeline
• How to refine the accuracy of operational forecasts
• How to increase process throughput
• How to reduce input costs by guiding process participants through the workflow, thereby minimising reliance on highly skilled, expensive staff
• How to accelerate new hire onboarding by ensuring new employees follow documented business processes

Audience:

Managers seeking to make BPM-related decisions, business consultants, business analysts, business process engineers, systems analysts, and anyone involved in the analysis and planning of business processes.

This BPM training will teach you how to automate and manage a wide range of business workflows. We will examine the automation steps within a typical process where work items are passed from one participant to another for action, in line with a set of business rules. You will gain practical insights into best practices for automated monitoring, along with tips and tricks for effective governance.

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

• Understand key terms and concepts in BPM
• Apply major methodologies and techniques for implementing BPM
• Identify the various technologies that support BPM
• Distinguish between process and rules requirements
• Map written business cases into process areas and rule sets
• Understand strategic differences between rules-centric and process-centric approaches
• Derive business intelligence from process descriptions and rule sets

This course has been developed for anyone responsible for modelling processes using BPMN 2.0.

It emphasises the practical aspects of the full BPMN 2.0 specification, including the implementation of common patterns.

The course comprises a series of short lectures followed by hands-on exercises: participants will be presented with problems described in English and will need to create appropriate BPMN diagrams for each scenario. These diagrams will then be discussed and evaluated by the group and the trainer.

While the primary focus is on understanding BPMN diagrams, the course also covers foundational elements of BPMN execution.

Audience:

Delegates with an interest in process modelling will benefit from attending this Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) training course, including:

• Business and Process Analysts
• Process Designers and Implementers
• Project and Programme Managers
• Anyone involved in business change and transformation.

This course has been designed for those who wish to use BPMN 2.0 extensively in their projects. It focuses on the practical aspects of the full BPMN 2.0 specification, as well as the implementation of common patterns.

This course does not cover the execution aspect of BPMN; instead, it concentrates on the analysis and process design elements of BPMN 2.0.

Course Format

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Abundant exercises and hands-on practice using Camunda Modeler.
• Practical implementation in a live-lab environment.

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Decision Model and Notation (DMN), and Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) are three Object Management Group (OMG) standards for modelling processes, decisions, and cases. This course provides an introduction to each standard and explains when to apply which one.

Objective:

This training course aims to help business analysts learn how to model their business processes efficiently using BPMN, along with the resources managed by these activities. Delivered within an agile enterprise framework, the course equips business analysts with the skills to apply appropriate BPMN notations and business extensions of UML to address their "business requirements" and coherently guide underlying design-level activities.

This course will cover how to:

• Select, organise, and implement a business re-engineering project
• Achieve competitive advantage by leveraging technology and utilising UML tools
• Maximise customer satisfaction by aligning process design with customer needs
• Identify typical signs of business process dysfunction
• Successfully redesign workflow and structure within the business
• Ensure best practice through the application of business patterns

This course is designed for enterprise architects, business and system analysts, and managers who wish to apply business rules to their solutions. With Drools, you can express your business rules in near-natural language, thereby narrowing the gap between business and IT.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (online or onsite) is designed for individuals at beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels who wish to develop skills in business and process modelling to foster a deeper understanding of the organisation, its products, and the dependencies between processes, data, and stakeholders.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the role of models as key communication tools in business analysis.
• Select the appropriate modelling method (BPMN, UML, SIPOC, Business Model Canvas) for a specific business goal.
• Decompose complex business processes into clear, actionable diagrams.
• Identify touchpoints between processes, data, and system actors.
• Assess the correctness and effectiveness of created business models.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (online or on-site) is designed for intermediate-level developers seeking a solid introduction to Drools 6 and its application in implementing business rules within their software solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the core concepts and advantages of rule engines such as Drools.
• Utilise the Drools Workbench and Eclipse for authoring and testing rules.
• Create, organise, and execute business rules using the Drools rule engine.
• Apply advanced features including decision tables, ruleflows, and domain-specific languages (DSLs).

This three-day course is designed to introduce Drools 7 to Business Analysts responsible for writing tests and business rules.

The course focuses on developing pure business logic. Upon completion, analysts will be able to author tests and logic that developers can seamlessly integrate with business applications.

This three-day course is designed to introduce Drools 7 to developers. It does not cover Drools integration, performance optimisation, or other advanced topics.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (delivered online or on-site) is designed for intermediate-level system administrators and developers who wish to configure, manage, and deploy Java applications on the JBoss platform.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure JBoss Application Server and its core components.
• Customise JBoss AS services for monitoring, database connections, and transaction management.
• Develop and deploy EJB 3 session beans and web applications.
• Utilise the JBoss Messaging Service to deploy and manage JMS applications.
• Manage JBoss AS through the Java Management Extension and Administration Console.
• Implement JBoss Drools for business rules management and utilise the Guvnor tool for rule development and testing.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (online or on-site) is designed for developers and business analysts who wish to build a management suite using jBPM.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Detail business goals using flow charts.
• Standardise a process to bridge the gap between design and implementation.
• Standardise a business process model and notation.
• Exchange BPMN definitions with other team members.

This course teaches how to design and execute decisions using the OMG DMN (Decision Model and Notation) standard.

OCEB2 Content Developer

NobleProg holds official OMG OCEB 2 Content Developer status, meaning our course outlines and training materials were developed by the very experts who authored the OCEB 2 examination questions.

This course prepares you for the OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB v2) Fundamental Examination.

Upon completion, you can practise using our testing engine with over 200 sample questions.

IBM ODM (also known as WebSphere Operational Decision Manager) is a Business Rule Management System (BRMS). It comprises a central repository and automation engine that enable the creation, management, testing, and governance of business rules and events. Rules and events are stored in the central repository, where they can be accessed and modified by both people and software without requiring any software rebuilds.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to create, manage, and execute business rules, as well as how to deploy and manage an instance of IBM ODM Decision Management in a live environment.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Manage ODM components, including IBM Decision Center and IBM Decision Server
• Manage and execute business rules and events
• Shorten the testing cycle by allowing other software applications to detect and respond to rule changes
• Combine decision-making and change detection tools to support adaptation, auditing, tracing, and testing
• Separate business rules from business applications to increase flexibility
• Build easy-to-maintain business rule client applications
• Use Event Designer to create business event projects
• Deploy and test business event applications
• Create a custom dashboard for monitoring business events
• Foster collaboration among architects, developers, and administrators in the development and maintenance of decision services
• Empower business analysts, policy managers, and rule authors to develop and maintain an application's decision logic

Audience

• Developers
• Project managers

Course format

• A mix of lecture, discussion, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice

This course adopts a practical approach to teaching OptaPlanner, equipping participants with the tools required to perform the core functions of this powerful optimisation tool.

This course introduces students to the Python programming language. Upon completion, learners will be able to develop meaningful Python applications across a diverse range of subject areas. Key topics include language fundamentals, working with a professional integrated development environment (IDE), control flow structures, string manipulation, input and output operations, collections, object-oriented programming with classes, modular design, and regular expressions. The course is enriched with numerous hands-on labs, solution guides, and practical code examples.

After completing the course, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Python security principles.

In this instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (available online or on-site), participants will learn how to identify key process variables and connect them while building a business flow using RPA Express.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure RPA Express.
• Identify the steps and actions to be recorded by RPA Express.
• Use RPA Express to map out a business flow.
• Create bots to capture and repeat events on websites, desktops, or terminals.
• Plan a process automation strategy.

This instructor-led, live training in Christchurch (available online or on-site) is intended for professionals at beginner to intermediate levels who wish to learn how to manage and optimise business processes using Signavio.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use drag-and-drop functionality to create consistent, readable models that map an organisation's operations.
• Collaboratively document, optimise, and simulate business processes.
• Use Signavio to help ensure process compliance.
• Use Signavio to optimise business performance.

Bonita BPM is an open-source business process management and workflow suite comprising three core components: Bonita Studio, Bonita BPM Engine, and Bonita Portal. It is frequently employed in projects requiring complex workflows, such as supply chain management, e-government, human resources, and contract management.

Course Format

• Emphasis is placed on hands-on practice.
• Concepts are delivered through real-world examples, practical exercises, and active development sessions.

This course is designed for enterprise architects, business and system analysts, technical managers, and developers who wish to apply business rules to their solutions.

The course includes numerous practical, hands-on exercises where participants will create working rules. If you only require a high-level overview of Drools, please refer to our other courses.

This course is typically delivered using the latest stable version of Drools and jBPM; however, for bespoke training, it can be tailored to a specific version.

Activiti is an open-source workflow engine and Business Process Management (BPM) platform designed for business professionals, developers, and system administrators.

ProcessMaker is an open-source BPM software application. It is a lightweight, fully web-based tool written in PHP, capable of competing with costly enterprise solutions.

This course guides you through implementing process management using ProcessMaker, with a focus on creating process definitions, defining roles, groups, and users, and initiating processes from external applications.

Audience

This course prepares participants to execute business processes using BPMN. It covers graphical representation as well as commonly used attributes of BPMN 2 elements.

Technology

This course is not platform-specific; it covers only the elements and attributes defined by the OMG specification. By default, it uses jBPM, but any other tool may be used as long as it supports BPMN 2.0.

Class format

Participants will work through example use cases followed by hands-on exercises, enabling them to execute their own processes.

Process mining, also known as Automated Business Process Discovery (ABPD), is a technique that applies algorithms to event logs to analyse business processes. Going beyond mere data storage and analysis, process mining connects data with actual processes, delivering insights into the trends and patterns that influence process efficiency.

Course Format

• The course begins with an overview of the most commonly used process mining techniques. We explore various process discovery algorithms and tools designed to uncover and model processes from raw event data. Real-world case studies are reviewed, and data sets are analysed using the open-source ProM framework.

Course Audience:

Managers seeking to interpret BPMN diagrams, as well as Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, and any professionals engaged in analysing and planning business processes using standardised, unified modelling notation.

Course Goals:

• Produce high-quality process diagrams
• Model using the BPMN process notation
• Capture as-is process information
• Implement optimised process flows for people-intensive processes
• Simplify complex process definitions and decompose them into more manageable components

This course is designed to build practical knowledge and develop BPMN modelling skills at intermediate and advanced levels.

The ideal participant is a business analyst involved in discovering, identifying, gathering, and analysing user requirements for systems. It is also suitable for advanced application developers and system architects interested in designing business processes, systems, and custom drivers.

The course does not cover issues related to Executable BPMN.

Training is delivered predominantly (~90%) through hands-on computer exercises. Participants will translate real-world business scenarios into Business Process Diagrams (BPD) and interpret diagrams to assess their practical applicability.

This is an intensive, highly practical course. Theoretical considerations of BPMN are not addressed in any way.

This course is designed to equip you with practical knowledge of BPMN modelling and essential foundational skills.

The ideal participant is a business user or business analyst who analyzes and documents processes as models, working in collaboration with business stakeholders within a specific organisational function, often acting as a bridge between business people and IT systems.

The training blends moderated discussion (40%) with hands-on computer workshops (60%). A key component involves translating business scenarios described in BPMN diagrams into actionable insights.

This is an intensely practical course. It focuses entirely on application rather than theoretical considerations of BPMN.

This course has been designed for process developers and software developers who wish to learn how to manage, manipulate, and develop processes using jBPM. It covers the components of jBPM and the elements of BPMN 2 implemented in jBPM, including managing signals and events, programming gateways, injecting process data, and executing parallel activities. NobleProg aims to deliver this course using the latest Open Source version of jBPM; however, requests for older or beta versions may be accommodated.

This course is designed to prepare you for the OCEB 2 Advanced exam. It covers advanced BPM concepts such as BMM, BPMN, DMN, business rules, process improvement frameworks, governance, and performance optimization to deepen modeling and analytical skills.

Although SOA is not specific to BPM software, there are numerous natural synergies between BPM and SOA. Perhaps the most evident is the separation of business process management as an independent function, enabling processes to be designed independently of any single application and leveraged as shared business logic.