BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation): meaning

BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) is a standard notation for business process modeling, formalized by the Object Management Group and adopted as ISO/IEC 19510. It has more than a hundred symbols and supports the representation of events, conditional gateways, subprocesses and interactions with IT systems. Its expressive power is justified when the process requires this complexity; for simple or medium-complexity processes, it introduces reading friction that reduces adoption of the map by the people who are supposed to use it.

Distinctive: more than a hundred symbols
Distinctive: conditional gateways, subprocesses and interactions with IT systems
Essential: standard notation for business process modeling
Essential: formalized by the Object Management Group
Constant: adopted as ISO/IEC 19510

Glossary

BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation)

The ISO/IEC 19510 standard notation for modeling complex business processes, with more than a hundred symbols supporting events, conditional gateways and integration with IT systems.