BPMN Business Process Modeling for Beginners – Avoid Common Mistakes with a Pharmacy Example

What makes BPMN modeling so tricky for beginners—and how do you get it right? This video explores why business process modeling is often challenging for beginners, highlighting common mistakes when translating text descriptions into BPMN diagrams. Using a pharmacy process example from *Fundamentals of Business Process Management*, it demonstrates step by step how to correctly transform a process description into a proper BPMN model. The walkthrough emphasizes best practices and contrasts them with typical beginner errors to make modeling more effective and accurate. Link to a video where the Pharmacy Process was used for evaluating AI approaches:    • Will ChatGPT Make BPMN Modelers Unemployed?   This is video #55 of the #BPMNSeries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow this link to the supplementary material: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18364330 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Introduction 01:07 Pharmacy Business Process Description 04:17 Live Modeling with Camunda The business process description comes from this book: http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org #BPMN #BusinessProcess #Automation #Camunda ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is how cite this video in a scientific paper: Hense, A. (2025, September 25). BPMN Business Process Modeling for Beginners – Avoid Common Mistakes with a Pharmacy Example. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18364330 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------