Stephen White made a comment on my Human “Facilitator” Processes post that deserves highlighting. You probably know the Stephen was the chairman of the working group that developed BPMN.
The discussion of the different diagrams shown in the post really have nothing to do with BPMN per se, but with the methodologies that would be used to model with BPMN. BPMN is generally methodology agnostic. The way that a process is modeled, to what level of detail, and what information should be captured, is really up to the methodology and the purpose for creating the process model. Continue reading