Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a visual modeling language for business analysis. It is an open standard notation for defining graphical flowcharts of business process workflows. It is a popular and intuitive graphic that can be easily understood by all business stakeholders, including business users, business analysts, software developers, and data architects.
This is a quick and simple guide to BPMN symbols. It covers the following elements:
- BPMN tasks
- BPMN sub-processes
- BPMN gateways
- BPMN swimlanes
- BPMN artifacts
- BPMN events
The guide aims to provide a simple and brief overview on the BPMN notations. If you want to know more about BPMN, you may want to have a look at the resources below:
- Article: What is BPMN?
- Official site of BPMN – Object Management Group BPMN
- Business Process Model and Notation (Wikipedia)
Visual Paradigm features an online BPMN diagram tool and a desktop-based BPMN modeler. If you want to create BPMN, check out the links below: