The following is selected list of Business Process Modeling publications, including books, papers, articles and blogs. Authors or publishers who are interested in having their publications evaluated for inclusion should send a request to: editor@BPModeling.com.
Books
- Essential Business Process Modeling by Michael Havey
- Editors’ Rating: 4/5
- PRO: A quick introduction to business process modeling that includes overview chapters on BPMN, BPEL, and WS-CDL.
- CON: Doesn’t address any language in detail and examples are trivial, so you will need another book or resource if you really want to learn how to model business processes.
- BPMN Modeling and Reference Guide by Stephen White, et al.
- Editors’ Rating: 3.5/5
- PRO: A solid primer and reference for BPMN by one of the BPMN specification leaders.
- CON: Pragmatic examples are weak. Doesn’t address complexity and scalability issues associated with modeling enterprise business process workflows.
- Business Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work by Magnus Penker, et al.
- Editors’ Rating: 3/5
- PRO: A solid introduction to business modeling using a UML profile (customization).
- CON: Needs to be updated to address recent advances in BPMN and UML Activity diagram alignment
Papers
- “Using BPMN to Model a BPEL Process”
by Stephen A. White, IBM white paper, February 2005. - “BPMN and Business Process Management”
by Martin Owen, et al., Popkin Software white paper, September 2003.
Articles
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Blogs
- BPMN Watch
- Bruce Silver’s blog on business process management.