Question

What additional information do you think the BPMN diagram provides over logical data flow diagrams and system flowcharts?

Answer 1

Answer:

Often while designing business solutions for a client application, one needs to represent the workflow and count on it over the lifecycle of the project. Business decisions, Roles and Technical aspects of the project are laid out in this workflow. Thus, it is vital that the workflow is prepared using an accurate approach.

Out of the numerous methods, most of the time it comes down to using either Flowchart or a BPMN.

BPMN stands for Business Process Modelling Notation and is currently in version 2.0. It is a standards based approach to graphical representation for specifying business processes along with illustration of other tiers of the system.

Since BPMN is a standard, it can be used by companies to plot their business process in a visual language that can be understood by all parties without misinterpretation.

BPMN helps us:

• To visualize your business process
• To document a process
• To do analysis on your business processes
• Discuss process using a common language

Initially, BPMN may have a steeper learning curve but once an organization adopts the standard the learning accelerates as users gain a common language to visually express how work gets done.