Practical BPMN Modeling

They often face various problems when designing a business process.
"Is it alright to make it Looping?", "Operating procedures are already fixed, but..."
Solutions for those common problems.

1. Selecting "Split" or "Parallel Split"

We post workflow sample articles on Sundays, too, which is easier said than done. This Sunday we'll do something different and use it for a BPMN lecture.BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) is a "Model" and a "Notation."The word "Mod...
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2. Altering Number of Splitting in "Concurrent Processing"

In last week's "BPMN Lecture" we talked about the "X" and "+" mark split conditions in the lecture titled, "Split Conditions are a Basic Concept in BPMN." Today let's look at the "O" mark.
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3. Automatically Sending Template Emails in the Middle of a Workflow

So we looked at splits, and you already know what tasks are. So, the next step in our BPMN lecture series is "events."
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4. How to Design Primary Workflows With Many Baby Workflows

Our fourth installment in the BPMN lecture series. After spending two or three months in business process management activities, you will probably start to want to connect processes in a "primary-secondary" relationship.
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5. Watch Out for Eternal Looping

BPMN Lecture series Vol. 5. Sometimes a workflow will proceed from Task 1, 2 to 3... and then you want to go back to task 1. This is a loop structure. "Graphical Authoring" is the reason why BPM tools can allow loop structures in workflow d...
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6. Interrupting Other User's Work

Today is the sixth issue of our "BPMN" series. Let's look at "interrupting" events, or items that cancel the operation of other tasks.There are several ways to interrupt a flow. Let's look at interrupting flows that include concurrent proce...
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7. Multiple Starting Occasion Should be Prepared

In some cases employees start requesting, in other accountancy start confirming. Yes, business processes in the world are not started from the same occasion. Rather multiple starting occasion (we call "Trigger") should be prepared in most o...
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8. To Define Tasks Not Ordered Yet

"Ad hoc", a Latinic phrase. There is no specific word or phrase for us Japanese, so we use that as it is. Then what does it mean? For example, we use them like "ad hoc Network" or "ad hoc working area" and it stands for "not permanent" ...
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