Modeling and Implementing with IBM Business Process Manager V7.5.1

This 5-day, instructor-led course teaches core process modeling skills, project development methodology, implementation fundamentals, and delivery best practice patterns that improve the speed and quality of process definition and implementation efforts. In this course, students use the IBM Business Process Manager Process Designer component to create a business process definition (BPD) from business requirements that are identified during process analysis. The course begins with an overview of BPM and process modeling. Students learn how to make team collaboration more efficient by enabling all team members to use standard process model elements and notation, which makes expressing and interpreting business requirements consistent throughout the BPM life cycle. The course also teaches students how to build an agile and flexible shared process model that key business stakeholders understand and developers can implement, and that can be adjusted to accommodate process changes. The course continues with an overview of the architecture of IBM Business Process Manager, and describes the use of process applications and toolkits within the tool. Students create variables, implement gateways, and enable swim lanes to demonstrate process flow on their diagrams. They also build customized Web 2.0 user interfaces (coaches) to enable business and process data flows throughout a process model. The course emphasizes the concepts of reuse, ease of maintenance, and best practices. Students learn how to work within the parameters of the BPM life-cycle methodology to maximize the functionality of IBM Business Process Manager and project development best practices. These methods include meeting the target playback goal and validating model functionality. The lab environment for this course uses the Windows platform.