A look back at the best from a year ago.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-07-21]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Business Process Modeling
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Free BPMN Stencils for Visio 2002
We created a series of Visio 2003 stencils last September to support our series of articles on BPMN. Anthony Britton has created a Visio 2002 version of the stencils for people who do not have Visio 2003 (or Visio 2007).
Business Analysis / Business Process Modeling / IIBA / Organizations / Requirements management software
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2007 – The Year of the Business Analyst
Outsourcing is gaining momentum not only as a way to reduce costs, but as a way to create global teams. This trend is driving an increase in demand for business analysts. The change in perspective is driving companies to think about how they manage their business in new ways, and driving interest in new tools for business analysts to achieve these goals.
Business Process Modeling
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BPMN Deadlock
One danger of using a precise language like BPMN to describe business processes is that you can precisely get yourself into trouble. Deadlock (in BPMN) is a condition used to describe a process that can’t be completed. By designing (or describing) the wrong business process, you can create a process that never finishes.
Business Process Modeling
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BPMN Compensation Event Correction
One of our readers (thank you!) pointed out that another blogger was critiqueing one of our earlier business process modeling notation (BPMN) diagrams. Turns out we made a couple mistakes. Here’s a more detailed look at the compensation end event.
Business Process Modeling
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BPMN Diagrams – Sequence Flow
BPMN Diagrams don’t use the term control flow to describe processes. They use the terms sequence flow and message flow. Within sequence flow, there are four classifications of flow.
Business Process Modeling
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BPMN Diagrams – Intermediate Multiple Events
We can simplify BPMN Diagrams with intermediate multiple events. These events are combinations of different intermediate events, much like complex gateways combine different gateways.
Business Process Modeling
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BPMN Diagrams – Hit the Links With Intermediate Events
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.