Over the past few years, I’ve been doing a lot of business process modeling and found that I spent just as much time modeling processes as I did defining the general business architecture. So, I codified my approach and wrote it up in a book: “The Art of Business Process Modeling: The Business Analyst’s Guide to Process Modeling with UML & BPMN” (ISBN 1450541666); available at Amazon and other retailers.
The book covers my process-centric approach to defining the business architecture. I call the methodology PROMAP (PROcess Modeling APproach) for short. PROMAP uses a collection of integrated models to define a business process within the context of the business architecture. It’s an easy to follow BPM framework for the practicing BA.
As far as visual modeling notations goes, the book explains UML and BPMN. Coverage focuses on the core notational elements that are useful in practice yet are advanced and complete enough to model complex processes.
Check out the book, order a copy, and give me your feedback. It’s available through Amazon.
