In this series of posts we will explore several cases presenting real-life business process examples representing common anti-patterns in business process modeling and demonstrating how to improve the examples by applying best practices. Anti-Pattern #4: Inconsistent Use of Events Events are fundamental elements in BPMN – each process begins with a start event, finishes […]
In this series of posts we will explore several cases presenting real-life business process examples representing common anti-patterns in business process modeling and demonstrating how to improve the examples by applying best practices. Anti-Pattern #3: Inconsistent Use of Gateways Gateways are very important as they control the branching of a business process sequence flow […]
Two years ago, the French National Education decided to bring a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach to the schools with a focus on engineering and natural sciences. Each School (Fr. Lycee) chose their own solution to implement this approach. The Lycees based their choices on several criteria, including ease of use, and standard compliance […]
… In this series of posts we will explore several cases presenting real-life business process examples representing common anti-patterns in business process modeling and demonstrating how to improve the examples by applying best practices. Anti-Pattern #2: Large Process Diagrams The second fundamental thing that needs to be reviewed is the complexity of process diagrams. While […]
MagicDraw and Atlassian JIRA are popular products, which usually can be spotted in software collection of enterprise. So a natural and common question rises, how they can work together? In most cases JIRA serves as an issue tracking system with the ability to have custom workflows, approvals, states, etc. MagicDraw in most cases is used […]
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is already acknowledged as a de facto standard for business process modeling. However, it still takes a long journey to increase the maturity of business process modeling practice. In practice most business analysts do a lot of mistakes that make their BPMN models over complex, difficult to understand and […]
The information dissemination and exchange for many our clients is very important and should be up-to-date. This is the reason why many of them are using Web publishing features and sharing Web based reports of their MagicDraw projects in the Intranet (i.e. within the organization), Extranet (between the organization and its business partners), or even […]
This document proposes structuring and styling rules that help writing requirements using the SysML language as well as specific MagicDraw capabilities that support this process. Prerequisites: basic MagicDraw knowledge; basic knowledge of the SysML language requirements part. The biggest issue users have when they start writing requirements using the SysML language is that there is […]