BPMN Modeling with Enterprise Architect

This course will teach you Business Process Model and Notation and how to use the Enterprise Architect workshop.The objectives are to introduce and use the different types of diagrams and elements, as well as all the tool's functionalities. Through the various exercises proposed, participants will acquire a practical knowledge of BPMN and Enterprise Architect, enabling them to tackle BPM projects in their own Enterprise Architect working context.

Targets

After this training, participants will have acquired the following skills:

• The practice of BPMN 2.0 modeling with EA
• Business process organization and modeling based, among other things, on business scenarios
• Good practices in process modelling
• Documentation generation from EA and BPMN modeling 
   

Prerequisite

To be able to take part in this training course, experience of business analysis is desirable, as well as experience of IT project modeling.

Detailed content

1. Introduction to Modeling and Enterprise Architect
   1. Basic concepts of modelling and EA
   2. EA, Getting Started
   3. How to structure projects
   4. Project configuration and settings.
   5. Export and import various resources
   6. Deployment Alternatives
   7. Manage the version of the models
   8. Version Control Problems
      Practical work (in the case of a practical training course)
      Take control of EA, configure its environment, create a project and structure it according to your objectives
       
2. Business process modeling with BPMN
   1. Recommendations for successful implementation of the BPMN
   2. Use of BPMN throughout the system development cycle.
   3. Background to BPMN, its origins and reality
   4. UML and BPMN Business Process Modeling Comparison
   5. BPMN, what is BPMN?
   6. Examples used to illustrate the use of these diagrams
   7. Short UML reminder (activity diagram, sequence diagram)
   8. The options available
   9. Introduction to processes and other artifacts
      Practical work (in the case of a practical training course)
      Introduction to BPMN modeling with EA, organization of business processes and all the elements involved
       
3. Basic elements of BPMN modelling with EA
   1. Diagram Elements and Different Types of BPMN Diagrams
   2. Activities, tasks and sub-processes
   3. Events and their use
   4. Gateways (exclusive, inclusive, complex, parallel, data-based, event-based)
   5. Connectors (sequence stream, default stream, message stream, message stream, association)
      Practical work (in the case of a practical training course)
      Process modelling based on different business scenarios.
       
4. BPMN structuring elements with EA
   1. Swimlanes, pools and lanes
   2. Artefacts (text annotation, data objects, groups)
   3. Process levels
   4. Data flow
   5. Exception Processing
   6. Offsets and transactions
   7. Loop and other structures
      Practical work (in the case of a practical training course)
      Process modelling based on different business scenarios.
       
5. Different types of BPMN diagram, EA specific tools
   1. Orchestration and choreography
   2. Best Practices for BPMN Modeling
   3. Traceability with EA
   4. Relationship matrices
   5. Data Modeling with EA
   6. Other available and useful notations (BPEL, Archimate, SysML, ...)
      Practical work (in the case of a practical training course)
      Business process modeling based on different business scenarios and exploitation of EA specific functionality
       
6. Documentation generation and other advanced EA features
   1. EA features for publishing modeling content
   2. Generation of office documents
   3. Settings, filters and other configurations for document generation
   4. Templates for generating office documents
   5. Use of virtual documents
   6. Publishing HTML documentation
   7. Alternatives: eaDocX, MDG Integration for Office
      Practical work (in the case of a practical training course)
      Business process modeling and documentation generation with EA.