BPM for SOA

3 day course contents

What you will learn :

BPM in Context

• The many faces of BPM
• The BPM umbrella
• BPM and Governance
• Industry players
• Maturity within the market
• Current BPM challenges
• The future of BPM

BPM Layering

• What is layering?
• Common layers
• Auxiliary layers
• The BPM stack
• Digesting the layers
• Layering rules of thumb �

The State of Standards

• Standards – Friend or foe?
• Standards bodies
• Mature standards
• Standards in flux
• Emerging standards
• Leveraging SOA and BPM standards

Roles within BPM

• Enterprise roles within BPM
• Project Manager responsibilities
• Business Analyst responsibilities
• Architect responsibilities
• Developer responsibilities
• QA/Tester responsibilities
• Configuration manager responsibilities
• Specialist roles and responsibilities
• New role: Integration specialist
• New role: Process champion

Process-centric SOA

• The importance of Business Process Management (BPM) within SOA
• Common BPM pitfalls
• Modeling business processes
• Business process as documentation
• Controlling business processes
• Driving a process-centric enterprise

Rules-driven BPM

• Business rules within BPM
• Externalizing existing rules
• Identifying new rules
• Managing SOA business rules
• Leveraging business rules
• Supporting tools

Process and Service Identification Methodologies

• Overview of popular methodologies
• Top-down modeling
• Bottom-up modeling
• Goal-service modeling
• BPM modeling pitfalls
• BPM modeling recommendations

Service Lifecycle Recommendations

• SOA lifecycle overview
• High risk points within the SOA lifecycle
• Handling service and process dependencies
• Service composition
• Configuration and control
• Proper retirement of processes and services

Service Versioning Strategies

• The problem of SOA versioning
• Configuration control granularity
• The role of the service registry
• Naming conventions
• Process versioning
• Service versioning
• Operation versioning
• Supporting multiple simultaneous versions
• Defining a version control policy (VCP)

BPM-SOA Testing Strategies

• The problem of SOA testing
• End-to-end testing within BPM
• WS-I compliance
• WS-Policy compliance
• Mock clients and services
• Regression testing gotchas
• BPM testing recommendations �

Security Recommendations

• BPM and security considerations
• The SOA security stack
• Security standards
• Single Sign On
• Identity management
• SOA security approaches
• Point-to-Point security
• ESB-brokered security
• The security service layer

BPM Business Patterns

• Business patterns
• The Self-service model
• The Information warehouse model
• The Information subscription model
• The User collaboration model
• The Extended enterprise model
• Custom business models

Human Patterns within BPM

• Human factors
• Pattern: BPM Champion
• Pattern: Centre of Excellence
• Pattern: Collaborative Enterprise
• Pattern: Process-driven Business
• Pattern: Selective BPM �