I’m in BPM and Process Automation for over a decade now, so naturally many related concepts and topics are just clear to me. But lately, I find myself more often in the position to explain process automation or BPM to people, who have never heard of it before or heard of it, but never used it.
For that reason, I decided to start a little series of posts, to get people into Business Process Management and the principles behind it. There will be no technical details. Just plain old process models, some history and the reasoning behind it.
It’s called The None Start Event, since it is the simplest trigger to start a process. No pre-conditions, just getting into it. There will be posts about the history of process automation and BPM (Business Process Management) but also an introduction to BPMN.
But instead of just listing all the symbols and explaining them one by one, I will try a different approach and develop a process. I’ll start very simple and then add elements with changing requirements. In the end, you’ll get a good understanding of the most common elements and how they act in a process model.
I will launch it next week on May, 6th 2025 with a short history about BPM, and the standard to model processes. You can find it in a separate section.
If you are not interested in the basics of BPM, you can just deactivate notifications for The None Start Event section in your substack settings for this publication, and just wait for new advanced posts.
Feel free to share it with your friends or peers who always wanted to get into the topic. It is free, so no worries.