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» FEATURED: Efficient BPMN: from Anti-Patterns to Best Practices

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Efficient BPMN: from Anti-Patterns to Best Practices

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is already acknowledged as a de facto standard for business process modeling. However, it still takes a long journey to increase the maturity of business process modeling practice. In practice most business analysts do a lot of mistakes that make their BPMN models over complex, difficult to understand and ...

» FEATURED: Bridging the Gap between Business and Software Architectures

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Bridging the Gap between Business and Software Architectures

We are frequently asked about connecting and tracing software architecture elements to business processes by integrating BPMN business models and software models in UML (Unified Modeling Language)... Now we will explore how to supplement business architecture with software architecture.

» FEATURED: How to Analyze a Business Process and Close Your BA Experience Gap

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How to Analyze a Business Process and Close Your BA Experience Gap

What comes first, the business analyst or the business analyst experience? If you’ve looked at BA job postings lately, you’d probably say the experience, as most BA jobs require experience. From one perspective, you’d be correct. But from another perspective, you’d be wrong. For if every BA role requires experience, how is it that there are h...

» FEATURED: An Example of Choosing a Hybrid SDLC using BPMN and the Decision Model

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An Example of Choosing a Hybrid SDLC using BPMN and the Decision Model

The purpose of this article is to provide project managers and business analysts an example of choosing a hybrid solution development life cycle (i.e., combination of agile and waterfall). Much discussion has transpired on the virtues of agile and waterfall approaches.

» FEATURED: Powerful Business Modeling With No Magic’s Cameo Business Modeler

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Powerful Business Modeling With No Magic’s Cameo Business Modeler

CBM Analyst is a simple and inexpensive way to implement business modeling. Business analysts may also choose to upgrade their business modeling solution to No Magic’s Cameo Business Modeler Plugin. The No Magic professional services team is ready to assist you in building and deploying a consistent business modeling solution.

» 5 Key Benefits of Business Process Modeling

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5 Key Benefits of Business Process Modeling

Business Process Modeling is becoming a higher priority for business managers and analysts as there is an increasing emphasis in organizations to document, understand and improve their business processes. Although Business process modeling provides many important benefits to companies and organizations, however, these five are the most critical and...

» FEATURED: Why & How: Business Process Modelling

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Processes are the user interface to a solution – as such they are highly visible and a lot of project effort is focussed on process modelling. In fact, there is a perception in some quarters that Business Analysts just draw process models and this is all they do. However, process models (the drawings of processes) are only one facet of the specific...

» FEATURED: Integrating iGrafx FlowCharter and Rational Requisite Pro

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While working on a Business Architecture effort several years ago, I collaborated on developing a new internal standard for business process and business capability description. From my perspective, a business capability is the required function or desired service that a business unit performs and the business process is the set of methods employed...

» Process Component Models: The Next Generation In Workflow ?

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Tony Bear says the BPM-folks are from Venus and the WS-folks from Mars. That exactly summarizes a big division in the BPM industry that might not be obvious. The term BPM-folks refers to the people that focus on process modelling. Their starting point is the analysis of procedures that describe how people and systems work together in an organisati...

» Business analysis and SOA part 1 of 6: The benefits of business services

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This is the first article in a six-part series dedicated to exploring how SOA and service-orientation relate to and affect business analysis processes and approaches. Acclaimed author Thomas Erl shares his insights into the world of service-oriented business analysis and business service modeling by providing customized excerpts from his second SOA...

» BPMN and the Business Process Expert, Part 3: The Art of Process Modeling

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In the first two installments of this series, we saw why BPMN is important to the Business Process Expert and got an overview of the notation. In this part, we’ll look beyond the spec to suggest some best practices for making your BPMN models most effective. The art of effective process modeling depends on what you are trying to do. Unlike traditi...

» BPMN and the Business Process Expert, Part 2: Mastering the Notation

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In the first installment of this series, we saw why BPMN is important to the Business Process Expert. In this part, we’ll look at the notation itself. In BPMN there are only three first-class diagram elements, or flow objects: Activity, a rounded rectangle, representing work performed in the process Gateway, a diamond, r...

» BPMN and the Business Process Expert

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Business process management (BPM) is an emerging discipline that looks at the enterprise in a radically new way. Instead of trying to automate and optimize individual functional units, like sales, supply chain, and customer service, in isolation, BPM views your company from the perspective of end-to-end cross-functional processes – exactly the way ...

» Introduction to BPMN

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This paper is intended to provide a high-level overview and introduction to the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). The context and general uses for BPMN will be provided as a supplement to the technical details defined the BPMN 1.0 Specification, which has been recently completed and released to the public. The basics of the BPMN notation w...

» BPMN and Business Process Management

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BPMN stands for Business Process Modeling Notation. It is the new standard for modeling business processes and web service processes, as put forth by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI – www.BPMI.org). BPMN is a core enabler of a new initiative in the Enterprise Architecture world called Business Process Management (BPM). Business Pro...

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