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Creating business process models that can be shared effectively across the business - and between business and IT - demands more than a digest of BPMN shapes and symbols. It requires a step-by-step methodology for going from a blank page to a complete process diagram. It also requires consistent application of a modeling style, so that the modeler's meaning is clear from the diagram itself. Author Bruce Silver explains not only the meaning and proper usage of the entire BPMN 2.0 palette, but calls out the working subset that you really need to know. He also reveals the hidden assumptions of core concepts left unexplained in the spec, the key to BPMN's deeper meaning.
The book addresses BPMN at three levels, with primary focus on the first two. Level 1, or descriptive BPMN, uses a basic working set of shapes and symbols to meet the needs of business users doing process mapping. Level 2, or analytical BPMN, is aimed at business analysts and architects. It takes advantage of BPMN's expressiveness for detailing event and exception handling, key to analyzing and improving process performance and quality. Level 3, or executable BPMN, is brand new in BPMN 2.0. Here the XML underneath the diagram shapes becomes an executable design can be deployed to a process engine to automate the process. The method and style detailed in the book aligns these three levels, facilitating business-IT collaboration throughout the process lifecycle.
Inside the book you'll find discussions, illustrated with over 100 examples, about:
The questions BPMN asks, and does not ask The meaning of basic concepts like starting and completing, sending and receiving, waiting and listening Subprocesses and hierarchical modeling style The five basic steps in creating Level 1 models Event and exception-handling patterns Branching and merging patterns Level 2 modeling method Elements of BPMN style: element usage and diagram composition
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Bruce Silver's book is by far the most valuable book I have read about business modeling and how to be able to use BPMN for that purpose. He looks upon the subject from the standpoint of a business consultant but has also a deep understanding of BPMN. He is able to identify some of deficiencies of BPMN when it comes to use it for business process development in general, not just for creating specifications for how to automate using a computer-based BPMS.
So, it was really interesting for me to read and to compare with my own experiences after having worked with Business Process Development with focus on Value Creation for 20 years and having used BPMN and many other notations.
His approach to modeling and his criteria for what constitutes a purposeful model are well presented and are - according to our experiences - very useful for both the beginner and the more experienced. For us it was most interesting to study the recommendations we did not agree with in order to understand why.
Of course to a certain degree these recommendations inherit the deficiencies of BPMN caused by its short-sighted purpose and its limitations to only model what can be implemented by using a BPMS. Hence, this makes the recommendations less useful - sometimes even counterproductive - when it comes to Business Process Modeling in general which most of the time leads to other types of improvements of the processes than implementing a BPMS. Bruce Silver seems to know that but in order to really understand what he says you have to have a good insight in the principles of a BPMS.
However, we use BPMN as it allows us - in an excellent way - to express in diagrams what value is created and how by the process in focus. But, we almost always have to add details - many times very important for the purpose of the diagram - that violates the rules of BPMN. (We do so by using a program that allows us to do it but gives us warnings about it.)
An excellent book but is lacking an introduction to BPMS and BPMN in order to give the reader a better understanding of why BPMN looks the way it does, the difference in purpose between Business Process Modeling in general and BPMN-modeling and how it could be overcome.
So, it was really interesting for me to read and to compare with my own experiences after having worked with Business Process Development with focus on Value Creation for 20 years and having used BPMN and many other notations.
His approach to modeling and his criteria for what constitutes a purposeful model are well presented and are - according to our experiences - very useful for both the beginner and the more experienced. For us it was most interesting to study the recommendations we did not agree with in order to understand why.
Of course to a certain degree these recommendations inherit the deficiencies of BPMN caused by its short-sighted purpose and its limitations to only model what can be implemented by using a BPMS. Hence, this makes the recommendations less useful - sometimes even counterproductive - when it comes to Business Process Modeling in general which most of the time leads to other types of improvements of the processes than implementing a BPMS. Bruce Silver seems to know that but in order to really understand what he says you have to have a good insight in the principles of a BPMS.
However, we use BPMN as it allows us - in an excellent way - to express in diagrams what value is created and how by the process in focus. But, we almost always have to add details - many times very important for the purpose of the diagram - that violates the rules of BPMN. (We do so by using a program that allows us to do it but gives us warnings about it.)
An excellent book but is lacking an introduction to BPMS and BPMN in order to give the reader a better understanding of why BPMN looks the way it does, the difference in purpose between Business Process Modeling in general and BPMN-modeling and how it could be overcome.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The book explains history and motivations for BPMN, covers the language semantics and explains how to use BPMN constructs to model typical process scenarios. The focus on "how" to use the language is what makes it extremely useful. It is concise and easy to read, you will enjoy regardless of your previous level of BPMN knowledge.
Just keep in mind that the content is based on BPMN 2.0, if you are using tools supporting older versions of the specs you might want to consider other publications.
Just keep in mind that the content is based on BPMN 2.0, if you are using tools supporting older versions of the specs you might want to consider other publications.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have been working on a business process modelling project at work which adopted BPMN as the modelling framework. I did a bit of research on the web and found some tutorials and descriptions; however, everything I found was related to the BPMN standard. The standard is great for understanding what all the symbols mean, but I wanted to have a much better understanding of how to fit them altogether to make a real process model. I read several book reviews and decided to purchase Bruce Silver's "BPMN Method and Style". I have not been disappointed. The book uses an example of a car dealership and each chapter of the book introduces new concepts and ideas to make the process model more sophisticated and accurate. The progression is done at rate that makes it easy to follow the explanation. The book will benefit you if you just want and easily digestible overview of BPMN or, like me, if you want to use BPMN in a practical setting - but like all such books, if you want to use BPMN you can't just read, you have to be proactive think about what you are reading and work along with the author with pen and paper. I was not disappointed and highly recommend this for anyone undertaking a business processes modelling project.
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Really useful for adopting BPMN method in the organization across different BPMN users- e.g. system analysts, programmers and business consultants. Read more
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Very useful introduction for BPMN 2
Written in simple English and broken down into two levels of detail. Provides a few example of how not to model as well how to. Very useful Patterns.
Published 11 months ago by M. Perry
Even a non techie can get to grips with it
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