Business Processes: Modeling, Simulation, Execution

1. 00:00Ladies and Gentlemen I’d like to welcome you to our new openHPI
2. 00:04course on business processes: modeling, simulation, execution.
3. 00:09In this video clip I like to introduce you to the organization of the course.
4. 00:16I like to start with the course Materials. The lecture videos
5. 00:20are very important and we will provide the content of
6. 00:24the course in a series of short video clips of about ten to fifteen minutes length.
7. 00:31You will also be provided with a PDF files of the lecture slides
8. 00:36so that you can work on the content of the course in a bit more detail.
9. 00:41Here and there we will also provide additional reading material
10. 00:45for you to deepen your knowledge on the course content.
11. 00:50I also like to remark that we reuse lecture videos from our previous courses
12. 00:56and this applies to weeks one, two, three where we introduce
13. 01:02let's say the foundations of business process management, basic
14. 01:07business process modelling and the analysis and
15. 01:10we analyze business process behavior.
16. 01:14These parts did not change content wise from the previous
17. 01:19courses so we just can import these. But we will also have updated and new material
18. 01:24and this applies to week four, week five and week six where we discussed
19. 01:30business decision modeling. And of course the two new weeks
20. 01:35that are run by our partners from signavio and camunda.
21. 01:41We will also provide tests Assignments and the final exam.
22. 01:46Self test can be used to check learning progress. After each
23. 01:51video clip you will be provided with self tests that you can use
24. 01:55to deepen your understanding of what you have witnessed in the video clip.
25. 02:01The self tests are not graded and they can be repeated as often as you like.
26. 02:06There will also be weekly homework assignments and once you
27. 02:10started with a homework assignment you have sixty minutes to complete them.
28. 02:15Homework assignments are graded and they cannot be repeated.
29. 02:20And we offer a final examination in week seven and that takes
30. 02:24ninety minutes for you to complete.
31. 02:28There are different records on HPI that you can achieve in this course.
32. 02:34The first is that you can get a confirmation of participation and
33. 02:40you will receive a this record when you visited at least fifty percent
34. 02:46of the course material.
35. 02:49You can also get a record of achievement.
36. 02:54This record you get when you when you gain fifty percent
37. 02:59of the overall score from the homework assignments and also
38. 03:03from the final exam. You can also be awarded a qualified certificate
39. 03:09that is from the what you have to do the same as the one before
40. 03:13as a fifty percent of the overall score. But this
41. 03:18qualified certificate has a participant's photo and it also comes with a
42. 03:22with a price tag. For more information please take a look at
43. 03:26the open web page where further details are provided.
44. 03:33You are in an online course with hundreds or thousands of learners
45. 03:39and you're not alone in this course, so you can share your experiences,
46. 03:44your questions with your our peers in a discussion forum that
47. 03:48is also provided by the platform. So you can use the forum to
48. 03:51discuss the course topics with your peers and you can also
49. 03:55provide feedback to us. But please be respectful to your fellow course participants
50. 04:02and also please be respectful and positive to the teaching team.
51. 04:09There's also a help desk that you can pose your questions to.
52. 04:14And you will find the help desk button on the right border
53. 04:18of your browser window.
54. 04:20The help desk you can ask when you have technical questions
55. 04:25related to your log-in and your registration or to technical
56. 04:30issues with the submission of your homework or your exam.
57. 04:34You can also pose course specific questions to the help desk
58. 04:38and these are sent directly to the teaching team.
59. 04:44As a participant of an openHPI course
60. 04:47please follow the openHPI Honor Code. So you are requested
61. 04:53not to share your access to openHPI with another person.
62. 04:58You are requested to work on homework assignments and exams
63. 05:03on your own and without the help of others.
64. 05:07You are requested not to publish or use course materials without
65. 05:12written permission by the author.
66. 05:15You are requested not to make available solutions to homework
67. 05:19and exams in any way to other participants, also not the forum or by e-mail.
68. 05:26And finally you are requested not to publish on openHPI any
69. 05:30material unrelated to the objectives of a social learning platform.
70. 05:38There is a standard BPM textbook and most course topics are
71. 05:44actually covered by this textbook and Springer-Verlag offers participants
72. 05:50a twenty per cent discount on hard copies and a fifty per cent discount on e-books.
73. 05:57To use this offer please follow the links in the internal pages of our
74. 06:02openHPI course. However buying this book is not required for
75. 06:08successfully participating in the course, it just gives
76. 06:11you more information about what is covered in the course.
77. 06:17During this course we will also have a number of process modelling tasks
78. 06:21and I am very happy to announce that Signavio provides free
79. 06:25of charge access to this Signavio process editor.
80. 06:29You can register at this url that you see here and the
81. 06:34free access to the complete system is limited to a period of sixty days.
82. 06:41Again like to note that the use of this Signavio process or
83. 06:46editor is not required for successfully participating in this course. You might
84. 06:51also use another process modelling tool for this.
85. 06:57Finally I like to introduce you to the weekly open HPI process.
86. 07:03So on monday morning at ten o'clock all the material will
87. 07:09be published on the openHPI page.
88. 07:13So we have a publication of lecture videos of the teaching
89. 07:17Material, of the self test and of the homework of the whole week.
90. 07:22Your process starts from that time on where you can watch videos
91. 07:27you can do the self tests.
92. 07:29And it's a very good idea to start with a homework only
93. 07:34after you've watched all video lectures of that week. Because
94. 07:38once you started the homework you have sixty minutes to complete
95. 07:41the homework and you cannot redo the homework again.
96. 07:46the homework must be completed before wednesday at ten in the evening
97. 07:51of the following weeks so its nine days after the publication
98. 07:55of the course content. And it's important that you take a careful
99. 07:59look at the time zone that you're in so all times are central
100. 08:03european time and you need to submit your homework before wednesday
101. 08:08a ten o'clock in the evening central european time.
102. 08:13Solutions to the homework are provided on thursdays on the
103. 08:17next day at ten o'clock in the morning.
104. 08:22The final exam can be taken in the seventh week of our course and
105. 08:27that is from monday June twenty fourth at ten o'clock in the morning
106. 08:32and the deadline for completion is a wednesday the third of July
107. 08:38at twenty two hours.
108. 08:43On this slide you will see a model, a graphical representation of the
109. 08:48course schedules. So you see the individual weeks
110. 08:54and I hope that it's now clear how the openHPI weeks work here.
111. 09:03All right with that I like to conclude this introductory
112. 09:07video clip also on behalf of the teaching team. We are really glad
113. 09:13to have you on board and we wish you a very good learning experience.

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