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BPMN Method and Style, Second Edition, with BPMN Implementer's Guide Kindle Edition

by Bruce Silver (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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BPMN 2.0 is the industry standard diagramming language for business process models. The meaning of the business process diagram is the same, regardless of the tool used to create it. But creating models that are correct, complete, and clear demands more than a dictionary of BPMN shapes and symbols. It also requires a methodology for translating process logic consistently into the diagram. And it requires a measure of modeling style as well, conventions that ensure that the process logic is unambiguous from the diagram by itself. In short, "good BPMN" requires a disciplined approach called "method and style."

In this book, Bruce Silver explains which BPMN elements process modelers need to understand, in two levels, including exactly where and how to use each element. Level 1 (the Descriptive modeling subclass of BPMN 2.0) is a palette of shapes and symbols largely carried over from traditional flowcharting. Level 2 (the Analytic subclass) expands the palette to be able to describe event-triggered behavior, critical to modeling exception handling.

The book explains the real meaning of BPMN's most basic concepts - like activity, process, and end state - essential to using the language correctly, and provides a step-by-step methodology for going from a blank page to a complete end-to-end BPMN model, developed from the top down in a hierarchical structure. From the top-level diagram you can see on a single page exactly how the process starts, its possible end states, what the instance represents, and communications with the Customer, service providers, and other processes. From there you can drill down to see the details of any part of the process.

Thie popular first edition of this book was published in 2009 based on the draft BPMN 2.0 specification. This second edition is based on the final BPMN 2.0 specification. Although the diagram elements have changed little since the first edition, both the methodology and style sections have been completely rewritten.

The second half of the book, the BPMN Implementer's Guide, is completely new. It puts the focus on the XML serialization of the diagram, for both non-executable and executable process models. It details the BPMN 2.0 metamodel and XML Schema, and describes the BPMN-I Profile, a set of serialization rules that facilitate interchange of BPMN models in the Analytic subclass between tools.

It also explains how BPMN 2.0 describes execution-related details, such as process data and data mapping, services, messages, and human task assignment, illustrated with an example executable process created in Bonita Open Solution. It concludes with guidelines for implementers on how to align executable design with business-oriented top-down process modeling.

The book is lavishly illustrated with over 100 BPMN diagrams, and the BPMN Implementer's Guide section contains many XML examples as well.

Bruce Silver is the leading provider of BPMN training and certification. He has been providing BPMN training since early 2007 and is regarded as an authority in the field.

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Although BPMN is widely accepted as the language of choice for business process diagrams, few process modelers know how to use it correctly or effectively. This book shows you how. It explains the shapes and symbols you need to know, and which ones you can ignore. It provides a prescriptive, top-down methodology for turning a blank page into a complete process model. And it explains the elements of BPMN style, principles of composition that make your models not only correct per the BPMN 2.0 specification but easily understood without reference to attached documentation. The Method and Style approach allows BPMN models to be shared across the business, or between business and IT, revealing the process logic consistently and unambiguously from the diagram alone.

The second half of the book, the BPMN Implementer's Guide, is addressed to developers and BPMN tool vendors. It explains the XML underneath the shapes and symbols, including the BPMN 2.0 metamodel and schema, the Descriptive and Analytic Process Modeling Conformance subclasses, and the BPMN-I Profile for interoperability between tools. Few tools serialize BPMN correctly, but the Implementer's Guide shows you how, both for non-executable and executable process models.

The Method and Style section is completely rewritten from the first edition, incorporating feedback from hundreds of students in BPMN training. The BPMN Implementer's Guide is brand new in the Second Edition.

About the Author

Bruce Silver is founder and principal of BPMessentials, the leading provider of BPMN training and certification. He has been providing BPMN training since early 2007 and is regarded as an authority in the field. He was a member of the BPMN 2.0 technical committee in OMG, and his BPMS Watch website (brsilver.com) is a popular source of news and commentary about all matters related to BPMN and BPM Suites.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cody-Cassidy Press (January 12, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 12, 2012
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Bruce Silver is founder and principal of BPMessentials, the leading provider of business process modeling training and certification using the BPMN standard. He is the author of BPMN Method and Style, now in 2nd edition and available in English, German, Japanese, and Spanish, and BPMN Quick and Easy Using Method and Style. He is also active in development of the new decision modeling standard DMN, and author of DMN Method and Style. Together with Nathaniel Palmer of BPM.com, he hosts the annual bpmNEXT conference, a showcase of the next generation of business process management technology. His website methodandstyle.com provides news and commentary on all aspects of process and decision modeling. He lives in Pasadena, CA.

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mike covacs

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Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2011

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Implementation issues of executable and non-executable models are beyond this review. It regards part I, II and III of the book; first 142 pages.

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It would be naive to think that absorbing all the book's content will make you may feel like a Certified Guru of Process Modeling. Not a guru and not a certified one, but you will surely gain an accurate and deep understanding of real BPMN.

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I was always thinking about process modelling in terms of communicability: sharing, passing on, exchanging, conveying information in order to ENVOKE UNDERSTANDING IN OTHERS, as contrasted with technicalities of the implementation issues being dissimilar from system to system. I am so glad to know Bruce Silver does promotes a more human approach to modelling in his book.

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I like it when the book suggests that the model correctness is not enough, that it is just the minimum to attain. Isn't it obvious? There’s more to life than semantics. What about consistency, process logic, completeness and unambiguity? What about different styles of modeling or ways of arranging flow objects?

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Do not blame me for philosophising, but I am absolutely certain that even if you know the meaning of all the words contained in American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster or Oxford English Dictionary, you may be incapable of writing a single sentence; ‘a set of words that is complete in itself’. Process modelling is about reading and writing sentences not just understanding separate words. The Spec is mainly about words. Real-life modelling is about expressing meaning that is clear, exact, precise, correct, and true. This cannot be done without using phrases & sentences. The book by Bruces Silver is about writing sentences.

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Even if you are patient enough to go through 538 pages of BPMN 2.0 Specification and succeed in reading between the lines to fully comprehend every single issue, I am pretty sure this will not make you an effective process modeller. The book won't tell you about every BPMN construct and shape. And this is for a reason. In practice, you do not need to use all the shapes to model business reality by using swimlane thinking. Even if you learn THE-Boring-You-To-Tears-SPECIFICATION by heart and are aware of all the BPMN objects, you might still be an absolute zero when it comes to useful process modeling with. Okey, I keep repeating myself.

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Adric Net

Excellent introduction with ample example process scenario diagrams

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2017

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This was recommended by a coworker (Thanks N!) and was very helpful in getting up to speed quickly on the BPMN terminology and charts. It includes ample detailed sample charts that helped me catch up quickly as well as significant background on BPMN and process modelling craft which I skimmed over quite quickly on my way to the example scenarios and charts.

I'd hardly heard of BPMN the week before and this helped me better understand my co-workers thought process and expectations, and the author even explains why the standard recommends certain paths by highlighting the pitfalls of other approaches. All of the BPMN nouns and verbs are explained well, and the charts then show and describe how best to model different business processes.

Don't mind the reviewers previously who had problems with the Kindle book's graphics (perhaps already repaired?). We found them quite clear on Kindle Cloud and they are for me, one of the most valuable things in the work.

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Ernesto Com

excellent explaining fundamental concepts

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2023

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basic but very important concepts are presented
help me improve my level from just using the symbols to draw flowcharts to actually model and design a process

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Sam2095

0 after all so it's the best we've got (or at least had at the time ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2015

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Well... it is the current bible on BPMN 2.0 after all so it's the best we've got (or at least had at the time I bought it).

Given I had no access to affordable time convenient training (I live in Australia) this was my main source of learning. I also found it readable and not too contradictory. It's a very broad topic and no one person will use every single feature so I built my own "index" using post-it notes to easily access pages I found myself re-reading.

I also like how it's two books not one - my frame is business not programmatic so the entire second half is irrelevant to me. It might be nice to sell it as such (two physical booklets) to cut down on the weight I carry on the bus (albeit minimal).

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Bruno Barrios

This is a BPMN MUST HAVE book!

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2012

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Anyone that's interested to improve your BPMN knowledge or just refrsh the concepts from 1.2 to 2.0 MUST READ this book.

This author, expresses very well the BPMN lessons.

I bought this book to study not the serialization part, but the BPMN to descriptive and analytical goals. It helped me a lot.

I read a lot of informations that you can't find it in a consolidated way in the web!

If you buy, you won't regret! And its just $9,99 right now!

Cya

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Kristofer Carlson

Excellent intro to BPMN

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2012

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I learned a great deal from this book; it helped me professionally. The only flaw in the book is that it implies that the XML serialization is actually useful; in fact, the various tools do not produce standard XML serialization, so the various pieces of middleware cannot assume that the XML is a valid and adequate representation of the process flow. More to the point, BPMN is about process flow, while tools like JBPM are focused on workflow. In the real world, developers and BAs have to spend time converting BPMN diagrams into the workflow diagrams necessary. But since the description of XML serialization is a relatively small part of the book, one may safely pass over this portion and spend more time on the details of producing high quality process flows.

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Kevin Yang

Great Book but Kindle edition is broken

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2017

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Great Book but Kindle edition is broken. When reading Kindle Edition on Kindle Apps, half of chapters are not accessible ( pressing 'next' doesn't do anything). It is fully readable on desktop Kindle web app. Please fix this and I will change the rating to 5 stars.

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2012

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From novice to experienced BPMN-user, this is "the" reference work to do BPMN "by the book". The book was recommended by a University Professor as the best place to start when I started using BPMN. Nearly 2 years later, with some more BPMN-mileage, I'm glad I've bought this book (now it's been adapted to BPMN2): it has truely helped me to increase the quality of all my models I recently made.

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Frank

Processen vertellen, tabellen tellen.

Reviewed in the Netherlands on May 19, 2023

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Top methode voor het visualiseren van processen. Nooit meer anders.

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Manoel Bezerra daCosta Neto

Muito bom!

Reviewed in Brazil on May 3, 2017

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O livro traz o que é necessario para voce amadurecer seu conhecimento em bpmn, alem de indicar os melhores caminhos para implementação.

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Marvin Malcolm

Good BPMN Reference

Reviewed in Australia on December 21, 2022

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I haven't read this book cover to cover but use it as a reference guide for BPMN patterns and good practices when building processes. It covers the BPMN components well and is an easy read with plenty of diagrams.

The book's main focus is modeling with a nod to implementation at the end. This isn't really an issue for me as I'll just be using my BPMN engine of choice to handle the execution of the model.

Vladimir Olenin

Very good book with lots of examples

Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2015

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Very good book with lots of examples. I found Bruce website (brsilver.com) to be very informative as well. He also is very responsive over the email if you need any clarifications / advice. The only two things you need to keep in mind are:
- the book only covers Collaboration diagrams; Choreographies and Conversations are completely out of scope
- second part of the book would be useful / helpful only to someone who implements BPMN engine - Bruce guides the reader through XML schemas, etc, which are not needed for general audience

Overall - very good read!

Client d'Amazon

Perfect conditions and good book

Reviewed in France on January 6, 2016

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This is a very good book and I received it on time and in perfect conditions.
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William E. O.