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BPMN Definitions
This introduction to Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) will acquaint you with the lingua franca of process designers, users, and analysts.
What is BPMN?
What is a Business Process Diagram (BPD)?
What is a Business Process Model (BPM)?
BPMN defines a Business Process Model as a network of graphical objects, which are activities, and the flow controls that define their order of performance.
What are Flow Objects?
What are Events?
What are Activities?
What is a Gateway?
What are Connecting Objects?
What is Sequence Flow?
What is Message Flow?
What is an Association?
What are Swimlanes?
What are Pools?
What are Lanes?
What are Artifacts?
What is a Data Object?
What is a Group?
What are Annotactions?
For further information on BPMN, visit the Business Process Management Intiative BPMN home page (link to http://www.bpmn.org).
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