Course Outline

BPM in Context

  • The many faces of BPM
  • The BPM umbrella
  • BPM and Governance
  • Industry players
  • Maturity within the market
  • Current BPM challenges
  • The future of BPM

BPM Layering

  • What is layering?
  • Common layers
  • Auxiliary layers
  • The BPM stack
  • Digesting the layers
  • Layering rules of thumb

The State of Standards

  • Standards – Friend or foe?
  • Standards bodies
  • Mature standards
  • Standards in flux
  • Emerging standards
  • Leveraging SOA and BPM standards

Roles within BPM

  • Enterprise roles within BPM
  • Project Manager responsibilities
  • Business Analyst responsibilities
  • Architect responsibilities
  • Developer responsibilities
  • QA/Tester responsibilities
  • Configuration manager responsibilities
  • Specialist roles and responsibilities
  • New role: Integration specialist
  • New role: Process champion

Process-centric SOA

  • The importance of Business Process Management (BPM) within SOA
  • Common BPM pitfalls
  • Modeling business processes
  • Business process as documentation
  • Controlling business processes
  • Driving a process-centric enterprise

Rules-driven BPM

  • Business rules within BPM
  • Externalizing existing rules
  • Identifying new rules
  • Managing SOA business rules
  • Leveraging business rules
  • Supporting tools

Process and Service Identification Methodologies

  • Overview of popular methodologies
  • Top-down modelling
  • Bottom-up modelling
  • Goal-service modelling
  • BPM modelling pitfalls
  • BPM modelling recommendations

Service Lifecycle Recommendations

  • SOA lifecycle overview
  • High risk points within the SOA lifecycle
  • Handling service and process dependencies
  • Service composition
  • Configuration and control
  • Proper retirement of processes and services

Service Versioning Strategies

  • The problem of SOA versioning
  • Configuration control granularity
  • The role of the service registry
  • Naming conventions
  • Process versioning
  • Service versioning
  • Operation versioning
  • Supporting multiple simultaneous versions
  • Defining a version control policy (VCP)

BPM-SOA Testing Strategies

  • The problem of SOA testing
  • End-to-end testing within BPM
  • WS-I compliance
  • WS-Policy compliance
  • Mock clients and services
  • Regression testing gotchas
  • BPM testing recommendations

Security Recommendations

  • BPM and security considerations
  • The SOA security stack
  • Security standards
  • Single Sign On
  • Identity management
  • SOA security approaches
  • Point-to-Point security
  • ESB-brokered security
  • The security service layer

BPM Business Patterns

  • Business patterns
  • The Self-service model
  • The Information warehouse model
  • The Information subscription model
  • The User collaboration model
  • The Extended enterprise model
  • Custom business models

BPM and BPMN

  • The added value of BPMN
  • Composability and basic services
  • Promoting an incremental and iterative approach
  • Why should Use cases drive the project?
  • Declaration of message properties
  • Use of correlation sets
  • Develop a complex parallel execution of activities
  • Designing concurrency

Requirements

Exposure to SOA concepts

 14 Hours

Delivery Options

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