About the Training

Some preparations were shared before the training to ensure you can get the most out of this training. If you didn’t get around to those, you can take a look at the preparations before we get started.

The training you are attending is meant as an introduction to the fields of Business Process Management, its tools and techniques and using technology to automate processes and decisions.

Goals

You will learn:

  • About Business Process Management and its process modelling standards BPMN and DMN;

  • How to read and model business processes and decisions;

You will also perform some exercises to get some hands-on experience with the things you learn.

After this training, you will not be an expert in the field, but you should have the knowledge to participate in projects where it is used and learn more as you do so. You’ll also be able to identify when a project, programme or organisation could benefit from employing process and/or decision management.

Structure

The training is organised into a number of modules. Most of them follow this structure:

  • A presentation from the trainer, introducing topics;

  • A moment to ask questions about the topics presented;

  • An exercise to apply the new topics, performed on your laptop.

Modules

The training consists of 3 modules.

Process Management

From 12:00-13:15

This module provides a brief introduction to Business Process Management. It will teach you why BPM is applied in organisations and why the tool and techniques that it offers (such as modelling standards) can help in doing so.

Business Process Model and Notation - Level 1

From 13:15-17:15

This module provides an introduction to the process modelling standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0. You will learn about the standard, its syntax for creating process models and the semantics of each of the elements. The module focusses on the elements of BPMN you will need in most processes, to model common process patterns.

Process Engines

From 18:15-20:30

This module offers a practical introduction to the concepts and usage of process engines. For illustration purposes, the lightweight process engine Camunda Platform 7 is used. You will be introduced to the main concepts you need to start automating processes and use that knowledge to build and test some processes yourself.