Drawing business process diagrams can be tricky. Just getting the layout on the page to look good can be tricky. Intermediate link events can be used to clean up diagrams. They can also be used to jump from a specified point in one process to a specific point in another process.
BPMN Diagrams – Play Catch With Intermediate Errors
Business Processes might start out as easy-to-diagram simple processes. Over time, these processes get more complex, as they have to deal with real-world considerations and unanticipated situations. Things can go wrong. Classical flow diagramming gets complex when dealing with errors or exceptions in a process, while BPMN modeling keeps things simple.
BPMN Diagrams – Never Too Late For An Intermediate Timer Event
Business process modeling in the real world requires us to represent how processes deal with exceptions, delays and deadlines. Intermediate timer events can be used to model deadlines and the business processes for handling them. See an example of how to model a business process where two deadlines expire and the business responds.
BPMN Diagrams – Wait For An Intermediate Timer Event
Business process modeling requires us to model behaviors of people and organizations. Those behaviors often involve waiting. Prescribed delays, or waiting for a specific time or date is what we can represent with an intermediate timer event in the sequence flow of a BPMN diagram. This article shows an example of how to model this delay in a business process.
BPMN Diagrams – Boundary Intermediate Message Events
Intermediate message events can be placed on an activity boundary in BPMN. This use represents a form of exception handling for a task or sub-process, in response to an incoming message. This is a very different behavior than the ones we previously described, which show how to use intermediate message events in the course of the normal sequence flow of a business process.
BPMN Diagrams – Flowing Intermediate Message Events
One of the 9 intermediate events in BPMN is the message intermediate event. There are two ways to use the message intermediate event, as an element in the sequence flow, or as an attachment to the boundary of an activity for exception processing. See how to use message intermediate events in a sequence flow. [Updated with correction of glaring error on Aug 22nd, 2006]
BPMN Diagrams – Undefined Intermediate Events
There are 9 different intermediate events in BPMN. One of them, called the none intermediate event, is “undefined” in that it doesn’t specify a distinct behavior. Unlike the other intermediate events, the none intermediate event has a single interpretation, and will only be used with a specific methodology.
BPMN Diagrams – Introduction to Intermediate Events
Intermediate events are one of the more complex and expressive elements of BPMN diagrams. Here we introduce the different intermediate events.
BPMN Diagrams – How To Use End Events (Part 2)
This is part two of a two part article. The first part is “How To Use End Events (Part 1)”. End events describe how a process ends. Often, the end of one process can initiate other behaviors within a business process. Like death and taxes, every business process has an end. Sometimes more than one.