EPF_Practices/practice.tech.abrd.base/guidances/guidelines/bpmn_guide.xmi

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  <mainDescription>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in&quot;>&#xD;
    BPMN was developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), and is now being maintained by the Object&#xD;
    Management Group. It provides a dictionary of standardized shapes to use to draw business process. The four basic&#xD;
    categories of elements of BPMN are:&#xD;
&lt;/p>&lt;br class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in&quot; />&#xD;
&lt;br />&#xD;
&lt;ul>&#xD;
    &lt;li>&#xD;
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            Flow Objects&#xD;
        &lt;/div>&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li style=&quot;LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none&quot;>&#xD;
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            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Events&#xD;
            &lt;/li>&#xD;
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&#xD;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Activities&#xD;
            &lt;/li>&#xD;
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&#xD;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Gateways&#xD;
            &lt;/li>&#xD;
        &lt;/ul>&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>&#xD;
        Connecting Objects&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li style=&quot;LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none&quot;>&#xD;
        &lt;ul style=&quot;MARGIN-TOP: 0in&quot; type=&quot;circle&quot;>&#xD;
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&#xD;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Sequence Flow&#xD;
            &lt;/li>&#xD;
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&#xD;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Message Flow&#xD;
            &lt;/li>&#xD;
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&#xD;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Association&#xD;
            &lt;/li>&#xD;
        &lt;/ul>&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>&#xD;
        Swim lanes: to organize different activities into categories of the same functionality.&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li style=&quot;LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none&quot;>&#xD;
        &lt;ul style=&quot;MARGIN-TOP: 0in&quot; type=&quot;circle&quot;>&#xD;
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            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Pool: contains many Flow Objects, Connecting Objects and Artifact&#xD;
            &lt;/li>&#xD;
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            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Lane: it is a sub-part of the pool&#xD;
            &lt;/li>&#xD;
        &lt;/ul>&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>&#xD;
        Artifacts&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li style=&quot;LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none&quot;>&#xD;
        &lt;ul style=&quot;MARGIN-TOP: 0in&quot; type=&quot;circle&quot;>&#xD;
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            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Data Objects&#xD;
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            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Group&#xD;
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            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>&#xD;
                Annotation&#xD;
            &lt;/li>&#xD;
        &lt;/ul>&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in&quot;>&#xD;
    Business process modeling is used to communicate a wide variety of information to a wide variety of audiences. BPMN is&#xD;
    designed to cover this wide range of usage and allows modeling of end-to-end business processes to allow the viewer of&#xD;
    the diagram to be able to easily differentiate between sections of a BPMN Diagram. There are three basic types of&#xD;
    sub-models within a BPMN model:&#xD;
&lt;/p>&#xD;
&lt;ul style=&quot;MARGIN-TOP: 0in&quot; type=&quot;disc&quot;>&#xD;
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>&#xD;
        Private or internal business processes: internal to the performing organization it is also referenced as workflow.&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>&#xD;
        Abstract or public processes: represent the Message flows between a private business process and another process or&#xD;
        participant&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>&#xD;
        Collaboration or global processes between two business entities (different lanes)&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
&lt;/ul>&lt;br />&#xD;
&lt;p>&#xD;
    See the powerpoint presentation to get a summary of the BPMN notation. &lt;a   href=&quot;./resources/ISIS_GUID_BPMN.ppt&quot;&#xD;
    target=&quot;_blank&quot;  >ISIS_GUID_BPMN.ppt&lt;/a>&#xD;
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