Hi,

I have created my fisrt BPMN flow diagram. I was hoping that I could get some comments on it. I am not sure if I am using the correct objects to define the process and if this is what it is meant to look like.

It is for a basic application where a logger unit in the field collects data and the communicates that data back to a website. Users then get alarms if the data is out of range and can then log onto the website and view the data.

I am sure that I am not seeing something about the real point of these diagrams, because the diagram took 45 minutes to create and says the same thing as the above sentence, which took 4.5 seconds.

Any comments and advice would be great.

Thanks in advance,

Ok, I think I understand. So as a BA, I would still create a doc like this but it would be more a functional requirements document and appososed to a Businss Requirements Document.

Is that correct?

Ok, so I see this diagram as maybe being the middle tier then. Based on the diagram we would have something like this.

Business Requiremenst (1st)

We need a web based system that our customers can logon to and view/download the data transmitted by their loggers in the field. Each customer must only be able to see their site and its data.

System Requirement (2nd)

See diagram.

Functional Requirements (3rd)

1. The logger needs to transmit to the server by secure GPRS
   1. Logger ID
   2. SIM number
   3. PIN
2. Date transmitted will be as follows
   1. Date: YYYY-MM-DD
   2. Time: HH:mm:ss
   3. LoggerID
      1. 6 character unique numeral
   4. Channel 1 Value(CH1)
      1. 10 Character numeral with decimal point
   5. Channel 2 Value(CH2)
      1. 10 Character numeral with decimal point
   6. Channel 3 Value(CH3)
      1. 10 Character numeral with decimal point
3. Data string will be transmitted in the following format
   1. DDDD-MM-YY|HH:mm:ss|LoggerID|CH1|CH2|CH3
4. etc
5. etc
6. Data file must be available in PDF
   1. Format as follows
      1. Header
         1. Logger ID
         2. Date Period Report Run for
         3. User who ran report
      2. Body
         1. Line Graph plotting data
            1. Formar: JPEG
            2. All channels on one graph
            3. X & Y Axis must auto scale to range of values
               1. X = Date Range
               2. Y = Data Points
         2. Data in Table format
            1. Table Header Rows (Bold)
               1. Date
               2. Time
               3. CH1
               4. CH2
               5. CH3
            2. Table Data Rows (1 for each data point)
               1. Date
               2. Time
               3. CH1
               4. CH2
               5. CH3
      3. Footer
         1. Company Information
            1. Company Name
            2. Contact Number
            3. Website Address
               1. Must be link to company website
7. etc
8. etc

Is that correct? Will the BRD almost always be shorter than the FRD?