Business Process Modeling Training Overview
This Business Process Modeling training teaches business analysts how to apply best practices in process mapping using the latest industry standards, ensuring that business and IT stakeholders understand the processes consistently throughout their organization.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Apply business process modeling principles and best practices
- Solve practical business problems using Business Process Diagrams (BPDs)
Prerequisites
All students should have taken Introduction to Business Analysis or have equivalent experience.
Outline
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Introduction and Definition
- What is Business Process Modeling?
- Impact of Business Process Changes
- Benefits of Business Process Modeling
- Business Process Methods
- Challenges with Process Modeling
- Role and responsibilities – Underlying competencies
Basics: An Overview of Governance
- An overview of governance
- Key governance questions to ask
- What happens if you don’t have effective governance?
- Typical Project cycle
- Importance of Requirements Communication
- Technique: RACI Matrix
Phases: Mapping the Business Problem
- Business Analysis Process
- Why do we model processes?
- Phases of Process Management.
- What is wrong with our process models?
- Go from Vision to Deliverable
- Define a strategic outcomes map
- Define a Business model and relevant processes
- Technique: Business Model Canvas
Process Monitoring and Documentation: Modeling Simple Structures
- Review: Why use Business Process Modeing?
- When do you use Business Process Modeling?
- What are simple Business Process Modeling structures?
- BPMN 2.0 Cheat-sheet: Describe the elements of Business Process Modeling
- AS-IS vs. TO-BE Modeling
Targets and Figures: Modeling complex structures
- It is important to follow up a critical approach to Business Process Modeling
- What are complex Business Process Modeling structures?
- When to use complex Business Process Modeling structures
- Principles of the Modeling procedure
- Four phases of model construction
The BPM Lifecycle: Analyzing process models
- Identifying poor process models
- Creating process models that everyone can understand
- Identify criteria for a well-defined process
- Review: What can go wrong
- What makes Business Process Modeling work
Implementation: Process mapping versus process Modeling
- Determine when to create a process map
- Determine when to create a process model
- Asking the four “Ares”
- Review: Business Process Mapping
Conclusion and Additional Resources
Training Materials
All Business Analysis training students receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
For in-person deliveries, attendees do not need computers for this course. We will provide full classroom setup instructions that will include seating in small groups, with supplies such as flipcharts, sticky notes, markers, and pens for the attendees and a projector and Internet connection for the instructor's laptop.
Online deliveries for this interactive training will use an online meeting platform (such as Zoom, WebEx, GoTo, or Teams) to have face-to-face contact online, including use of breakout rooms for group activities.
