Improving my BPMN skills

As posted before I am working as a business analist at my current assignment. I am using BPMN to create diagrams to describe the business processes at my client’s company. Because I wasn’t familiair with BPMN, I looked around to find the best way to master this technique. Besides a lot of basic articles I ran into two interesting sites, both have to do with Bruce Silver.
First there is this site at which you can register for his BPMN course in different formats.
Besides the training of Bruce I also found these articles he wrote. This will give you a basic idea about the theory you can expect in the training, but of course you are missing the hands-on exercises and other stuff that’s in the training.
I haven’t finished the training yet but until now (I am half way) I like it very much and I have learned much more then I would by just reading books (it’s also more expensive then a few books so that’s fair :-)).
The final thing I want to mention about Bruce is his blog with interesting posts about BPMN. Now that is enough advertisement for Bruce.
Of course, mastering BPMN alone will not make you a good business analyst. On the other hand, making sure your BPMN diagrams don’t violate the BPMN rules, won’t make you a worse business analyst neither!

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About Pascal Alma

Pascal started as an Oracle Developer in 1997 and developed numerous applications with Oracle Designer/Developer and PL/SQL. Since 2001 Pascal becomes more and more active with the development of software at the Java/J2EE platform. Nowadays Pascal is a senior JEE Developer/ Architect and has a lot of experience with several open source initiatives/ frameworks especially within the Enterprise Integration area. Besides these technical skills Pascal is a big Scrum enthusiastic.

4 Responses to Improving my BPMN skills

  1. Alan Crean says:

    Mate – have a look at the 4 min video on http://www.processmaster.com – it is all BPMN as you will see

  2. Alan Crean says:

    Mate – have a look at the 4 min video on http://www.processmaster.com – it is all BPMN as you will see

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