Business Process Management (Bachelor)

Course content

• Introduction to Business Process Management
• The BPM lifecycle
• Process identification: context, process architectures, selection / prioritisation of processes for optimisation
• Introduction to process modelling with BPMN
• Advanced process modelling: recurrences, rework, events, exceptions, rules, best practices
• Process discovery: methods, modelling, quality control
• Qualitative process analysis
• Quantitative process analysis
• Process redesign: background, transactional methods, transformative methods
• Process-oriented information systems: Types, Benefits, Challenges
• Process implementation with executable models
• Process monitoring: context and approaches, techniques from process mining, performance measurement
• Techniques for business process management in knowledge-intensive processes
• Business process management as an enterprise capability

Learning objectives and competences

Students can…

• understand and explain basic questions, terminology and practical relevance of business process management,
• understand and explain central concepts in process modelling and automation,
• distinguish and explain different types of modelling notations (imperative, declarative),
• understand and explain different stages in the BPM lifecycle and their stakeholder requirements,
• understand and model business processes in BPMN,
• analyse and optimise business processes,
• select and use applicable techniques, notations and concepts from Business Process Management for the respective field of application from the extensive range.

Dates

The lecture will be held on Wednesday at 11:30am – 1pm. The first date is 2025-04-23 in lecture hall H5.

The exercise takes place online on Thursdays from 8:00am – 9:30am. The first date is 2025-04-24.

All dates can be found in the corresponding course module in StudOn.

Further links and StudOn