Advice for the newbie?

[ffrg]

Hi guys, first of all sorry for my simple English, it isn't my primary language. I hope you'll understand me and try to help!

My potential boss wants me to learn some basics about process visualization. Then I should visualize process(using EA) of my normal morning as an example. The problem is, I don't really know where to start. I tried to google something but I didn't really find anything useful. How do you think it should look like? Also, could you guys give me some hints where can I found something about process visualization and its basics?

Thanks a lot!

[Sunshine]

For business processes we use BPMN notation. You can see lots of examples on the web.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Model_and_Notation
http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/

Suggest also doing a search for BPMN patterns.

Hope that helps

[OpenIT Solutions]

As sunshine suggests BPMN is probably the way to go if your focus is process modelling. As well as the resources indicated, you will also want to do hit Alt-F1 in Sparx to bring up the learning center and select business modeling.

If your focus is broader, ie spanning process, application, technology and information architecture you may also want to check out the ArchiMate notation - again supported by Sparx (see help pages) and the OMG website.

Regards,


Jon.

[Sunshine]

Worth noting too that we also use ArchiMate for Enterprise Architecture work covering ;

• Motivation,
• Business,
• Application,
• Technology
• Implementation and Migration

We use BPMN for the detailed process workflows so we can easily automate them.