What is BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation)?
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BPMN is a standard notation for showing business events, tasks, decisions, and flows with symbols both business and technical teams can read.
What is BPMN?
BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) is a standard visual notation for describing business processes. Its purpose is to let business teams, analysts, and software teams discuss the same workflow using the same diagram.
In a BPMN diagram, events show the start, intermediate states, or end of a process. Activities represent work to be done. Gateways describe decisions and branches. Sequence flows show the order of steps, while pools and lanes separate teams, systems, or responsibility areas.
Where Is It Used?
BPMN is commonly used for approval flows, order-to-delivery processes, customer support workflows, invoice checks, and integration scenarios. In a return process, for example, customer request, warehouse inspection, refund approval, and notification steps can be modeled as separate activities.
A good BPMN diagram does more than look tidy. It distinguishes exception paths, waiting points, human tasks, and system tasks. Too much technical detail can make it unreadable for business stakeholders; too little detail leaves implementation teams guessing.
BPM is the broader discipline for managing processes, while BPMN is the shared modeling language often used inside that discipline.