Objectives

The objectives of the seminar are to:

• Understand the appropriate modeling method for a given business requirement
• Properly prepare business process models in several formats
• Construct business process models with the appropriate components and rigor
• Use the business process models to analyze changes in business processes, costs of various alternatives and requirements for application development
• Create well-constructed business process models, and provide appropriate related documentation Seminar Content

Seminar Content

• Introduction, Review of Business Process Models
  • Phases of application development
  • Importance of building business models
  • Overview of the types of process models
• Overview of Modeling Business Processes
  • Goals of BPM
  • Objectives of BPM
  • Various formats used in modeling business processes
  • Documenting business procedures
  • Rules and best practices in BPM
• Requirements Determination
  • Analysis of current processes
  • Methods for gathering and analyzing processes
  • Business process automation, improvement and re-engineering
  • Documentation requirements for process models
• Context Diagramming
  • Definition of a context diagram
  • Role of context diagrams in BPM
  • Methods of context diagramming
• Creating Business Process Models in Flowcharting
  • Flowcharting basics
  • Creating a flowchart
  • Expanding a flowchart
  • Conventions used in flowcharting for process modeling
• Functional Decomposition
  • Definition of a functional decomposition
  • Decomposing a process model to atomic levels
  • Role of functional decomposition diagrams in BPM
• Model Documentation
  • Visio Documentation and other diagrams
  • Other modeling documents
• Validating and Presenting Business Process Models
  • Validation of all forms of process models
  • Presentation of the charts and documentation
  • Validation and presentation suggestions
• Conclusion
  • Summary, advanced exercises, resources for further study

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