Get in Touch

Course Outline

Introduction

  • A Brief History of Process
  • The Process Perspective
  • Process Management
  • Process Modelling, Analysis and Design
  • Business Process Management Framework
  • Business Process Management Systems (BPMS)
  • Business Process Architecture

BPM Implementation Strategies

  • The BPM Value Proposition
  • The BPM Community
  • Why automate BPM?
  • Topology of a SOA reference architecture
  • Overview of BPM vendors and positioning of BPM tools

Aligning IT and Business

  • BPM versus BPMS
  • When to choose a BPMS
  • IT and business must work hand in hand: matching the right technology to your problem
  • Adopting a development model
  • Overview of a BPM system
  • Terms and concepts

Understanding Basic Concepts and Architecture

  • Process Modelling
  • Process Analysis
  • Process Design
  • Components and structure of a BPMS
  • Enterprise Process Management Planning
  • Key Skills, Roles and Responsibilities

Governance and Business Strategy

  • The past: data/functions versus objects and services
  • The future: core business logic versus process control
  • Design implications for architects
  • Alignment of business and IT
  • The role of business stewardship
  • The role of business rule analysts

Modelling a Process with BPMN

  • The added value of BPMN
  • Composability and basic services
  • Promoting an incremental and iterative approach
  • Why should use cases drive the project?
  • Declaration of message properties
  • Use of correlation sets
  • Developing complex parallel execution of activities
  • Designing concurrency
  • BPMN implementation by vendors
  • Example: Microsoft XLANG

Fault Handling and Exception Management

  • Defining events
  • Configuring timeouts
  • Handling faults
  • Catching exceptions
  • Compensation management

Business Rules

  • Motivations for business rules
  • Basic concepts
  • Rule Maturity Model (KPI RMM™)
  • KPI STEP™ principles
  • New roles for business and I/T
  • The business focus in business rules
  • When is a business rules approach appropriate?
  • New aspects for scoping a business rules project
  • Key elements of a business rules project plan
  • The role of a business rules pilot
  • Overview of mining business rules from code

BPM as an Enabler of SOA: Key Components

  • Application frontends
  • Basic services
  • The value of an ESB
  • Using a repository
  • Increased agility for the business
  • The BPM Board
  • Distributing technology white papers

Controlling and Measuring Improvement Processes

  • Managing the repository
  • Setting up a quality gateway
  • The four pillars of success

Metrics

  • The context of organisational performance
  • What makes a good metric
  • Measurement and management hierarchy
  • Process management: more than just measurements
  • Metrics within processes: management roles in measurement
  • Management questions to be answered
  • Pitfalls of process management efforts

Architecture of a BPM System

  • EAI and B2B aspects
  • Topology and scalability
  • Design tools
  • Deployment tools
  • Monitoring and management
  • The process engine
  • Process definition repository

Core BPMS Features and Interfaces

  • Repository support
  • Database support
  • BAM
  • Human workflow solutions
 35 Hours

Number of participants


Price per participant

Testimonials (1)

Provisional Upcoming Courses (Require 5+ participants)

Related Categories