Business Process Management (Bachelor)

The course “Business Process Management” will take place on site in the summer semester 2025 on Wednesday at 11:30am – 1:00pm.

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

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.

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 in presence 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.

Link to StudOn