Business Process Management Awareness

• Generic BPMS Tools and Suites
• Characteristics and Capabilities
• BP Center of Excellence

Business Process Modeling with BPMN

• Iteration/Repetition/Looping/Links/GoTos
• Complex Event Types
• Transactions and Compensation
• Ad Hoc Processes
• Exception handling
• Complex activity inputs & outputs
• Types of Activities
• Activity Lifecycle
• Choreography

Workflow Patterns

Workflow Patterns, as described in Chapter 10 of the BPMN specification and the Workflow Patterns Initiative.

Business Rules

• Business Rules requirements
• Structural Business Rules
• Decision Models
• Fact Models
• Process Elements and Decision Points
• Creating Business Rules based on business requirements

Architecture Topics

• SOA awareness
• "fit" between SOA and process orientation
• MDA awareness
• MDA and Business Process
• Modeling for execution

IT Infrastructure and Business Process

• Service-Level Agreements
• Process Configuration Management
• ITIL and COBIT-based technology management
• Privacy and Security Standards and Enforcement

Monitoring and Managing Processes

• Types of available process data
• Retrieving performance data from processes
• Analytics & BAM tool setup awareness
• Implementing BP analysis and simulation tools