What will you learn during this training ?
This "BPMN Jumpstart" course is a practical workshop on BPMN, the "Business Process Model and Notation". It consists of a recap of the most important syntax elements, real-life examples of how to do good process modelling in BPMN, and group exercises to practice what has been learnt.
This workshop helps participants to meet the increasing demands in business process modelling, particularly for business improvement and redesign, as well as the automation and digital transformation of processes. BPMN can be used to model the current AS-IS and the improved TO-BE situation, and to demonstrate and communicate these changes throughout the enterprise. BPMN diagrams with sufficient precision and detail can be used to generate e.g. BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) code for the automated execution of processes. Before BPMN, there was no standard modelling language that could support this.
This workshop is highly practical and enforces the BPMN theory through group exercises. A tool and laptop is not required as there are more useful discussions about the BPMN models around a flipchart. Of course, if your company has standardized on Sparx Enterprise Architect or Bizagi for BPM, we can focus on these tools.
This course gives an answer to these and other questions:
In this workshop, we will also focus on how to set up a BPM framework (preceding the modelling itself) and how to model efficient, usable and reusable BPMN diagrams using the correct syntax and the best practices in BPMN. Also, the correct use of Actors and DataObjects will be emphasized, because data modelling and information architecture are still underdeveloped skills here in Belgium.
Your lecturer and workshop moderator is Christian Gijsels, who has in-depth experience in setting up BPM frameworks, and is actively involved in many BPMN projects, so that you receive very practical and valuable information.
Why this workshop ?
BPMN stands for "Business Process Model and Notation". This notation is now thé standard for modelling business processes. It allows companies to better understand their internal business processes, the interaction with external parties and to document them in graphical, easy-to-read visualisations.
Hence, organisations have the power to describe their procedures in a clear and consistent way. The graphical visualisations facilitate the communication and documentation of business transactions inside and between organisations, allowing them to respond quickly to new business opportunities.
Who should attend this training ?
This workshop is aimed at anyone who wants a deeper understanding of process modelling with BPMN, preferably with some basic knowledge of the BPMN syntax. In particular, we can distinguish 2 major target audiences:
Within these target audiences, we aim at the following non-exhaustive list of job titles:
This is a workshop for everyone who wants to
Christian Gijsels is an independent consultant at GIJSELSDOTCOM NV. He is specialized in the modelling of business processes (BPMN, UML Activity Diagrams), cases (CMMN), decision rules (DMN), information architecture (Data Flow Diagrams, UML, ...) and business/enterprise architecture (ArchiMate). Before, he was a Director at KPMG Technology Advisory Belgium.
He worked for a long time at the Cronos Holding, where he was co-founder and responsible for the Consulting Practice The Business Analysts, a group of 55+ Strategy, Business and Functional analysts and project managers. Before this, Christian was e-Business Manager at KPMG. Christian Gijsels is a member of BPM Institute and is actively in touch with Bruce Silver, the founder of BPMN.
Christian finished his Master in Computer Technology at the LUC, and holds many certifications, e.g. Certified Advanced Consulting Skills (KPMG Verona), Certified PDN (Consulting Problem Solving), Certified Teacher at IBM Belgium, and Internal Auditor Quality System ISO 9001:2000 (SGS Belgium), Certified Scrum Master/CSM at Scrum Alliance, Certified BPMN at BPMInstitute.org New York (Bruce Silver), and KMO Challenge at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. He is also certified Scrum PO, and Certified in ArchiMate and Six Sigma.
You can find more about Christian at LinkedIn and follow his tweets at Twitter.
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