<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<org.eclipse.epf.uma:ContentDescription xmi:version="2.0" xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI" xmlns:org.eclipse.epf.uma="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/uma/1.0.6/uma.ecore" xmlns:epf="http://www.eclipse.org/epf" epf:version="1.5.1" xmlns:rmc="http://www.ibm.com/rmc" rmc:version="7.5.1" xmi:id="-5EYtwKBXPe1ViPCFmdnS1g" name="new_guideline,_Phd-gMo4Ed6zaeiCeLZoXA" guid="-5EYtwKBXPe1ViPCFmdnS1g" authors="Jerome Boyer" changeDate="2010-01-15T04:32:28.000-0800" version="7.5.0">
  <mainDescription>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in&quot;>
    BPMN was developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), and is now being maintained by the Object
    Management Group. It provides a dictionary of standardized shapes to use to draw business process. The four basic
    categories of elements of BPMN are:
&lt;/p>&lt;br class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in&quot; />
&lt;br />
&lt;ul>
    &lt;li>
        &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in&quot;>
            Flow Objects
        &lt;/div>
    &lt;/li>
    &lt;li style=&quot;LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none&quot;>
        &lt;ul style=&quot;MARGIN-TOP: 0in&quot; type=&quot;circle&quot;>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Events
            &lt;/li>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Activities
            &lt;/li>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Gateways
            &lt;/li>
        &lt;/ul>
    &lt;/li>
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>
        Connecting Objects
    &lt;/li>
    &lt;li style=&quot;LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none&quot;>
        &lt;ul style=&quot;MARGIN-TOP: 0in&quot; type=&quot;circle&quot;>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Sequence Flow
            &lt;/li>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Message Flow
            &lt;/li>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Association
            &lt;/li>
        &lt;/ul>
    &lt;/li>
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>
        Swim lanes: to organize different activities into categories of the same functionality.
    &lt;/li>
    &lt;li style=&quot;LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none&quot;>
        &lt;ul style=&quot;MARGIN-TOP: 0in&quot; type=&quot;circle&quot;>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Pool: contains many Flow Objects, Connecting Objects and Artifact
            &lt;/li>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Lane: it is a sub-part of the pool
            &lt;/li>
        &lt;/ul>
    &lt;/li>
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>
        Artifacts
    &lt;/li>
    &lt;li style=&quot;LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none&quot;>
        &lt;ul style=&quot;MARGIN-TOP: 0in&quot; type=&quot;circle&quot;>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Data Objects
            &lt;/li>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Group
            &lt;/li>
            &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;
            style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in&quot;>
                Annotation
            &lt;/li>
        &lt;/ul>
    &lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in&quot;>
    Business process modeling is used to communicate a wide variety of information to a wide variety of audiences. BPMN is
    designed to cover this wide range of usage and allows modeling of end-to-end business processes to allow the viewer of
    the diagram to be able to easily differentiate between sections of a BPMN Diagram. There are three basic types of
    sub-models within a BPMN model:
&lt;/p>
&lt;ul style=&quot;MARGIN-TOP: 0in&quot; type=&quot;disc&quot;>
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>
        Private or internal business processes: internal to the performing organization it is also referenced as workflow.
    &lt;/li>
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>
        Abstract or public processes: represent the Message flows between a private business process and another process or
        participant
    &lt;/li>
    &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 3pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in&quot;>
        Collaboration or global processes between two business entities (different lanes)
    &lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>&lt;br />
&lt;p>
    See the powerpoint presentation to get a summary of the BPMN notation. &lt;a   href=&quot;resources/isis_guid_bpmn.ppt&quot;
    target=&quot;_blank&quot;  >isis_guid_bpmn.ppt&lt;/a>
&lt;/p></mainDescription>
</org.eclipse.epf.uma:ContentDescription>
