Business Process Modeling
What is a Business Process?
Business Process is a series of repeated, uniform activities executed by an organization to achieve some goal. Ex: Creation of account, Accepting orders, delivering orders etc.
Reasons to modeling a Business Process:
- To Create a New Process
- Improve Business Process
- To reengineer an existing process
Benefits: Modeling a business process will benefit in reduction of cost of the process, improves its quality and reduce its cycle time.
Swim lane/Cross functional flowcharts best suits in modeling a business process.
UML & BPMN :
UML: It is Unified Modeling Language typically used by programmers for their system design. Some of the UML diagrams are Class diagram, Sequence diagram, Use Case diagram, State Transition diagram etc.
BPMN, Business Process Model & Notation: It is a standardized diagraming notation for Business Process modeling. It does not just illustrates that two actions are somehow linked, However BPMN pinpoints exactly how the two actions/process are linked by telling details like what technologies link the two, how information is exchanged, and what systems need to interact.
BPMN improves the standard flowchart by showing exactly how a process is meant to execute. All stakeholder can understand how a process works in an organization.
Sample BPMN diagram:
