Bpmn

BPMN Fundamentals
Stephen A. White, IBM Notation Working Group Chair

OMG BEIDTF Meeting – Joint BPMI-OMG Meeting
Washington, D.C. – November 2, 2004

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Topics
Background Relationship to Standards Organizations Notation Summary

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Background
History Definition of BPMN Working Group Charter Benefits of BPMN

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History
BPMI Meeting #3
March, 2001, BPMI members began discussing the idea of creating a notation to go along with the executable BPML.

BPMI Meeting #4
June, 2001, BPMI members agree to form a Notation Working Group. The intent of the notation is to help communicate a BPML business process.

Formation of Notation Working Group
August, 2001, the Notation Working Group isformed. Currently, the Notation Working Group is composed of 58 members representing 35 companies, organizations, or individuals.

BPMI Meeting #5
October, 2001, Kick-off meeting of the Notation Working Group.

BPMN 0.9 Draft
November, 2002, the BPMN 0.9 draft specification was released to the public

BPMN 1.0 Draft
August, 2003, the BPMN 1.0 draft specification was released to the publicBPMN 1.0
May, 2004, the BPMN 1.0 specification was released to the public. Currently, there are 7 companies that have implementations of BPMN and there are 11 companies developing implementations.
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Definition of BPMN
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
The BPMN will provide businesses with the capability of defining and understanding their internal andexternal business procedures through a Business Process Diagram, which will give organizations the ability to communicate these procedures in a standard manner. BPMN will also be supported with an internal model that will enable the generation of executable BPEL4WS.

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Working Group Charter
Excerpts from the Charter:
The BPMN Working Group will ensure that the notationwill: • Be acceptable and usable by the business community. • Be constrained to support only the concepts of modeling that are applicable to business processes. • Be useful in illuminating a complex executable process. • The BPMN notation of a business process must be unambiguous. There should be a mapping from one or more BPMN notation instances to an execution level instance.

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Working Group Charter, Cont.
Excerpts from the Charter:
In the course of its work the BPMN Working Group will: • Seek to minimize the technical constraints placed upon the business user when modeling business processes. This principle is paramount. • Determine the Business Process modeling concepts that are applicable to the graphical notation. • Consider issues and opportunities ofinformation sharing and dissemination in areas of common and related interest with other working groups and standards bodies.

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BPMI.org Hourglass
Audiences:
Strategy Consultants Business Analysts Process Designers System Architects Software Engineers

Business Environment

Purposes:

BPMN
Focus

Modeling

BP Scope BPEL
Execution

TechnologyImplementation
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Benefits of BPMN
BPMN will Provide:
A standardized notation for defining internal and external business processes
The notation will be understandable across all organizations and modelers

A formal mechanism to generate an executable business process (BPEL4WS) from the Business Level notation
This type of standardized mechanism does not exist (althoughbeing developed in the BPDM response) The business process developed by a business analyst can be directly applied to a BPM engine instead of going through human interpretations and translations into other languages

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Background Relationship to Standards Organizations Notation Summary

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Relationship with Standards Orgs....