Week Four

Pattern
Processes consist of one or more control flow patterns. Hence by mastering patterns we can create correct and elegant business process diagrams. We are focusing on patterns related to Basic Control, Advance Branching, Structural, Multiple Instances, State Based and Cancellation. An evolving repository of workflow patterns is available at http://www.workflowpatterns.com/. So far we have limited ourselves to control flow patterns. We may discuss resource patterns later in this course.

Patterns also offer an easy way to learn any BPM tool. By looking at how various patterns are supported by a BPM tool, we can compare their capabilities. A repository of vendors’ evaluation is available at http://www.workflowpatterns.com/vendors/

Readings:
Chapter 13 of the text book

A Copy of following paper is available at \\192.168.1.32\profile\BPMS_Pre_mid\Extra Reading material\Session 11 and 12

Process Modeling Notations and Workflow Patterns by Stephen A. White available at http://www.bptrends.com/publicationfiles/03-04%20WP%20Notations%20and%20Workflow%20Patterns%20-%20White.pdf

(You may ignore the UML diagram and comparision between UML and BPMN given in this paper)