Course Outline
Understanding Business Processes
- What is a business process
- Types of business processes
- Unified Modelling Language (UML)
- Business Process Modelling (BPMN)
- Use Cases
- An Incremental Process for Modelling
Process Improvement Life Cycle
- Putting the team together
- Integration with the development Life Cycle
- The process improvement Life Cycle and Radical vs. incremental improvement
Defining Business Processes
- Business Use Case Diagrams
- Business Use Cases and Business Actors
- Modelling Hi-level and Group Processes
- Business Process Modelling Workshop (case study)
Mapping into System Requirements
- System Use Cases
- Mapping Actors and Use Cases
- Mapping Activities
- Mapping Business Scenarios
- Mapping Business Workers
- Mapping the Business Entity Model
- Mapping Workshop
Preliminary Process Assessment
- External factors
- Identifying core and supporting processes
- Setting up improvement targets
- Identifying customers and stakeholders
Business Process Models
- Pros and cons of different modelling techniques
- Process model components
- Intro to use case scenarios
- Business objects
- Mapping the workflow
Modelling Current Processes
- Interviews and focus groups
- Modelling conditions, triggers, events and business rules
- Levels of abstractions
- Modelling tips and techniques
- Knowing when to stop
Quantifying Processes
- Deciding what and how much to measure
- Measuring customer satisfaction
- Measuring performance
- Measuring efficiency
- Analysing Current Processes
Analysing activities
- Identifying value-added activities
- Analysing workflow patterns and constraints
- Dynamic analysis - simulation
- Identifying areas of improvement
- Modelling New Process
Generating new ideas
- Documenting alternatives
- Integrating performance measurement mechanisms
- Capturing and representing process knowledge
- Managing the modelling process
Putting the New Business Process Models to Work
- Mapping to systems requirements
- Policies and procedures manuals
- Models as tools for change management
- Process management
Selecting Methods/Tools
- Method evaluation and selection and customization
- Modelling and simulation tools
- Workflow management tools
- Intranets and Extranets
- Process and knowledge management tools
Testimonials (5)
The pace was good, with a nice mixture of knowledge sharing, demonstrations and practical work. Filip was very engaging and provided the energy to get through the course. It was good that there was a lot of 1:1 tuition, with Filip going through individual training exercises.
Colin - Worldpay
Course - BPMN, DMN, and CMMN - OMG standards for process improvement
The training definitely backfilled some of the gaps in my knowledge left by reading the OptaPlanner userguide. It gave me a good broad understanding of how to approach using OptaPlanner in our projects going forward.
Terry Strachan - Exel Computer Systems plc
Course - OptaPlanner in Practice
a lot of practices are very welcome, many try and learn cases are embedded
Nadia Ivaniuk - Credit Suisse (Poland) Sp.z o.o.
Course - Modelling Decision and Rules with OMG DMN
Exercises and solving problems in groups when the problems were more difficult.
Randy Comer Comer - Sandia National Labs
Course - Drools 7 and DSL for Business Analysts
I really enjoyed the good atmosphere.