EA and BPMN for
Business Process Modelling
Course Description:
This course is designed for business analysts who are new to BPMN and Enterprise Architect. Delegates are taught how to create business processes, collaborations, conversations and choreographies within Enterprise Architect. This course is highly practical with many hands-on exercises.
Prerequisites:
No prior BPMN or Enterprise Architect experience is required.
A background in business process modelling is helpful.
Equipment:
For on-site delivery the customer should provide a suitable training room with a screen or projector to connect to our trainer’s laptop and a whiteboard or flipchart. All delegates require a PC or laptop running Enterprise Architect.
For webinar delivery delegates require a PC or laptop running Enterprise Architect with an Internet connection (a headset can be helpful). If you wish to test your environment join a test WebEx meeting: www.webex.com/test-meeting.html
A trial version of Enterprise Architect is fine for training and can be downloaded from Sparx Systems website: www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/trial.html. It is also helpful to have a mouse as this makes creating diagrams much easier.
Course Style:
45% theory, 55% practical.
Each module is accompanied by paper and hands-on exercises to allow delegates to apply the theory and become confident using Enterprise Architect.
Delegate Handouts:
Each delegate receives a folder containing all the course slides and comprehensive theory notes which form excellent reference material. Folders also contain exercises and suggested solutions. Following successful completion of the course each delegate receives a certificate.
Course Modules:
- Delegate background and objectives
- Timetable and course outline
EA Teaching – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 1.5 hours
- Introduction to EA
- Navigate the EA user interface
- Create project models in EA
- Create diagrams in EA
- Understand the structure of EA projects
- Create and delete elements in EA
- Search for elements in EA
BPMN Teaching – 0.5 hour
- What is BPMN?
- Business process models
- 4 BPMN diagram types
EA and BPMN Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 1 hour
- Create BPMN process diagrams in EA
- Model business processes
- Start and end events
- Activities and sequence flow
- Add events, activities and sequence flow in EA
- Exclusive and parallel gateways for logic
- Use exclusive and parallel gateways in EA
- Intermediate events
- Message and timer events
- Create message and timer events in EA
- Data stores and data objects
- Model data objects in EA
- Tasks and sub-processes
- Business processes and Sub-processes in EA
- Allocate responsibility with pools and lanes
- Define pools and lanes in EA
EA and BPMN Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 1 hour
- Conditional and default sequence flows
- Conditional and default sequence flows in EA
- Markers for activity behaviour and task types
- Select activity behaviour and task types in EA
- Event types
- Reflect event types in EA
- Edge mounted events
- Transactions and compensation
- Show transactions and compensations in EA
- Inclusive and event gateway types
- Model inclusive and event gateways in EA
EA and BPMN Teaching – 0.25 hour
Paper Exercises – 0.25 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create BPMN collaboration diagrams in EA
- Black box pools
- Add black box pools in EA
- Message flows between pools
- Initiating and responding message icons
- Show message flows and icons in EA
EA and BPMN Teaching – 0.25 hour
Paper Exercises – 0.25 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create BPMN conversation diagrams in EA
- Black box pools
- Add black box pools in EA
- Conversations and links
- Model conversations and links in EA
EA and BPMN Teaching – 0.25 hour
Paper Exercises – 0.25 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create BPMN choreography diagrams in EA
- Choreography task
- Model choreography tasks in EA
- Initiating and responding message icons
- Show message icons in EA
EA Teaching – 0.5 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create project glossary in EA
- Generate MS Word, RTF or PDF from EA
- Select document options in EA
- Create document templates in EA
- Produce HTML reports from EA
- Customise HTML templates in EA