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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)?
What are Flow Objects?
What are Events?
Events are anything that “happens” during the course of a business process. Events can have a cause, referred to as a Trigger, and/or an impact, referred to as a Result. An Event is represented by a circle in a Business Process Model. There are three types of Events based on when they occur in the flow of a process:
  • Start
  • Intermediate
  • End
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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