IBM WB835G - Developing Workflow Solutions using IBM Business Automation Workflow V20.0.0.1

Course Outline

• Introduction to IBM Business Automation Workflow
• Exercise: Creating your first process application
• Introduction to Business Process Management
• Playback 0: Modeling the As-Is and To-Be business processes
• Exercise: Playback 0: Creating the To-Be process
• Playback 0: Controlling process flow
• Exercise: Playback 0: Controlling process flow
• Playback 1: Controlling process flow with business data
• Exercise: Playback 1: Controlling process flow with business data
• Playback 1: Business data, services, and coaches
• Exercise: Playback 1: Business data, services, and coaches
• Playback 1: Enhancing coaches
• Exercise: Playback 1: User interface design and implementation
• Exercise: Playback 1: Conducting the Playback session
• Playback 2: Integrations
• Exercise: Playback 2: Integrations
• Playback 3: Error handling and deployment
• Exercise: Playback 3: Handling errors and deploying your process application
• Advanced routing
• Exercise: Implementing a custom routing solution
• Exercise: Implementing the four eyes” policy by using a team filter
• Managing complex tasks and process interactions
• Exercise: Building a cancellation pattern
• Integrating with external systems
• Exercise: Building web service connections
• Handling content events in a process
• Exercise: Handling content events in a process 

Objective

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Understand the key capabilities of Business Automation Workflow

Describe how to use IBM Business Automation Workflow to accomplish process modeling goals

Describe the purpose of the Process Portal, Process Designer, and Workflow Center repository

Describe the high-level architecture for Business Automation Workflow

List and describe the core notation elements that are used in the IBM Process Designer

Describe the purpose and function of Blueworks Live

Explain the benefits of using IBM Business Automation Workflow on Cloud

Define Business Process Management (BPM)

Understand the process spectrum

List and describe the phases in the IBM Playback methodology

Describe Playback 0 and the achievements that are reached during this stage

Examine a defined workflow from detailed process requirements and identify the interrelated process activities

Describe how to model a structured process

Decompose activities into a nested process

Describe process sequence flow and the runtime use of process tokens

Explain how to evaluate and model conditions for a gateway

List and describe intermediate event types that are used in the IBM Process Designer

Model a business process escalation path with an attached timer intermediate event

Describe the differences between process flow data and business flow data

Add variables and business objects to a process

Describe teams and process lanes

Explain user distribution in a process application

Implement routing for tasks

Create a routing design by using a team filter service

Assign an expert group to an activity

Expose a process application to a team

Use coaches to define and implement guided user interactions

Implement a service for an activity in a process

Enhance coaches by applying a theme and adding tabs

Create a reusable view

Create a snapshot

Share your assets by using a toolkit, and exporting your process application

Organize assets with favorites, tagging, and smart folders

Conduct a Playback session

Explain how to create a decision service

Describe how to create and configure an undercover agent (UCA)

Describe how to start a process with a message start event

Define the basic function of services

Configure and define services for outbound integration

Create an inbound web service

Describe the differences between an environment variable and an exposed process variable

Catch an error in a process and service

Explain when to use team filter services to support business policy

Use parallel tasks and messaging in a BPMN model

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Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have: 

• Practical knowledge of data structures
• Understanding of SQL syntax and JavaScript
• Basic understanding of web services
• Experience with modern programming techniques

Audience

This course is designed for project members who design and implement detailed logic, data models, and external system integrations for an executable business process. These roles include process owners, BPM analysts, BPM authors, BPM developers, BPM administrators, and BPM project managers.