BPMN Inclusive Gateways: Converging Divergent Paths
Channel: YAWL User Group
Date: 2024-03-27

How does BPMN handle the convergence of diverged branches in workflows? The video delves into the structured synchronizing merge pattern within BPMN workflows, elucidating how multiple diverged branches converge into a single subsequent branch. Through demonstrations and explanations, it illustrates different scenarios of merging branches and highlights the utilization of a joining inclusive Gateway for modeling in BPMN. The video concludes by addressing implementation limitations in Camunda related to the configuration of the inclusive Gateway.

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

This is Video Number 7 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
00:29 Structured Synchronizing Merge pattern
02:03 Structured Synchronizing Merge in BPMN
02:45 Conclusion

Background photo by Mikhail Nilov
https://www.pexels.com/photo/8942525