Camunda for Analysts

Overview

The "Camunda for Analysts" course combines theory with practice, offering participants workshops in individual environments under the guidance of a trainer. The program is aimed at business analysts and people responsible for the development, monitoring, and optimization of activities in an organization. During the course, participants will delve into the secrets of modeling in BPMN and DMN standards and learn effective methods of process analysis in the Camunda environment.

During the course, participants will learn:

• BPMN and DMN notation and their application in process modeling
• How process engines work and for what problems BPMN is an effective tool
• Process versioning, change management, and switching between versions
• The process lifecycle in the Camunda engine and methods for its verification
• Interpretation of BPMN and DMN notation by the Camunda engine and issues related to data schema and incidents
• Approaches to Camunda communication with external systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, external tasks)
• Methods of diagnosing problems in processes, optimization, and anti-patterns

Introduction to Process Automation and the Camunda Ecosystem

• What problems is BPM best suited to solve?
• The role of process engines and the benefits of their implementation.
• Camunda Landscape – overview of differences between Community and Enterprise versions.
• Basic concepts and terminology in working with the Camunda engine.
• Process lifecycle – rules of launching and methods of verifying its state.

BPMN and DMN Modeling in Engine Practice

• Introduction to BPMN and DMN notation.
• BPMN and DMN under the microscope – how the Camunda engine interprets and executes individual notation elements.
• Process versioning and safe switching between versions.
• Incremental process development step by step.
• Typical anti-patterns – what mistakes to avoid during modeling and implementation.

Integration, Data Flow, and Architecture

• Camunda database schema.
• Transactionality in processes.
• Camunda communication with external systems – overview of best approaches (including External Tasks, message queues e.g., RabbitMQ).
• Calling external APIs and populating processes with variables.

Maintenance, Error Diagnosis, and Optimization

• Camunda Cockpit in action – application of the tool in production environment analysis (working with tokens and process variables).
• Incidents and typical error handling strategies in processes.
• Effective problem diagnosis.
• Bottleneck analysis and optimization opportunities for running processes.

Practical Workshops

Comprehensive exercises in process modeling and implementation carried out in students' individual environments, with constant support and supervision of a trainer. (Note: practical exercises interweave with theoretical knowledge throughout the duration of the course).