BPMN Activity Types Explained

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BPMN Activity Types Explained

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Activities are critical components of BPMN – All business processes are primarily formed by different kinds of BPMN activities. With Visual Paradigm, you can draw your own BPMN diagram by using different kinds of activities. In this article, we will explain the different kinds of BPMN 2.0 activities you can use in modeling a business process with BPMN.

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What is BPMN?

BPMN, short for Business Process Modeling Notation, is widely used modeling language for creating process workflows or business process flowcharts. BPMN introduces a set of graphical notations that can be easily understood by everyone, from technical people such as business analysts, software developers, and data architects to business stakeholders such as the end users and other business stakeholders. This helps people communicate process workflow design ideas effectively.

What is BPMN Activity?

A BPMN Activity is simply “Work” that a company or organization performs in a business process. An Activity is can be atomic (Tasks) or decomposable (Sub-Processes). There are basically three BPMN activity types:

  1. BPMN Task
  2. BPMN Sub-Process
  3. BPMN Call Activity

For BPMN Task, the nature of task can be further specified by applying a ‘task type’.

In this article, we will go cover each of these BPMN activity types in detail.

BPMN Tasks

A BPMN task is an atomic activity within a process flow. You create a task when the activity cannot be broken down to a finer level of detail. Generally, a person or applications will perform the task when it is executed.

In BPMN 2.0, there are different types of tasks identified for use in representing more specific behavior that tasks might represent. Here is a list of BPMN 2.0 task type:

  • Service Task
  • Send Task
  • Receive Task
  • User Task
  • Manual Task
  • Business Rule Task
  • Script Task
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