Splitting Exclusive Gateways in BPMN
Channel: YAWL User Group
Date: 2023-11-14

Want to learn about the exclusive gateway in BPMN? This video discusses the exclusive choice pattern in BPMN and workflow patterns. It explains how a branch diverges into multiple branches, with control immediately passing to one outgoing branch based on a selection mechanism. Using a splitting exclusive gateway in BPMN, the speaker demonstrates this behavior, emphasizing the importance of annotating the gateway and its outgoing arcs. The decision on which branch to take is determined by the answer to a question, often derived from a preceding task. Overall, the video provides an overview of the exclusive choice pattern and its implementation in BPMN.

This video is part of a series on modeling the workflow patterns with BPMN.
http://www.workflowpatterns.com

This is Video Number 4 in the series on BPMN. You can find supplementary material on github:
https://github.com/ahense/bpmn
Click on "Code"/Download zip to get the whole package. The material for this tutorial is in the folder that corresponds to the video number.

The examples have been modeled using the Camunda Modeler:
https://modeler.cloud.camunda.io

00:00 Introduction
00:20 Exclusive choice pattern
01:09 Exclusive Choice in BPMN
02:12 Conclusion

Background photo by Edmond Dantès
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