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.
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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.
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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.
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BPMN Diagrams – 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.
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BPMN Diagrams – Digging Artifacts
Artifacts are more than business detritus. Documents are created in business processes that represent actionable information. See how to represent these useful artifacts in business process modeling notation.
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BPMN Diagrams – Go With The Flow
BPMN Diagrams document business processes. Those processes have a flow to them, and that flow can branch and merge. It has a beginning and an end. Flow happens from the perspective of a single organization or person – but multiple people can talk to each other. Learn how to diagram flow and messaging in this article.
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BPMN Diagrams – How To Use Subprocesses
This article shows how to use the different types of subprocesses in BPMN diagrams. Examples of normal subprocesses, looping, multiple instance, ad hoc, and compensation subprocesses.
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BPMN Diagrams – How To Use Start Events
Examples showing how and when to use the 6 different types of start events in business process modeling notation (BPMN) diagrams.