**Business Process Modeling Notation** - a graphical approach to modeling & representing business processes. Business Process Modeling Notation is a standard for graphically representing behaviors in a business. It is very descriptive and can be used to model very complicated processes. Part of this power comes at the cost of [[simplicity]], as there are **116 unique elements to the most-current standard** (2.0), which makes BPMN somewhat difficult to interpret, thereby undermining a primary value proposition for the technique. I don't really see any value in learning anything but the absolute basics of BPMN. There are a couple different [[Modeling Purposes]], and BPMN sits in a bad spot. BPMN is functionally similar to [[IDEF0]] and [[IDEF3]] from the [[IDEF]] family ([[IDEF]]), or [[Activity Diagrams]] from the world of [[UML]]/[[SysML]]. **** # More ## Source [BPMN Specification - Business Process Model and Notation](https://www.bpmn.org/) ## Related - [[UML]] - [[Diagram Types (index)]]