5 Steps to draw Flowchart with BPMN

A flowchart is popular in visualizing step-by-step solution or workflow. A little drawback though - no common agreement on shape representation. This is where Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) can fill, with a worldwide standard of graphical notation easy for anyone to read. Even more, it helps depict work responsibility.

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1. Define an organization

   An Organization can be represented by a Pool. If you are designing an internal process, you just need one Pool. You may define your company or department as a Pool.

   

2. Define participants

   A Participant can be represented by a Lane. A lane can represent a role or a position. Do not put a person (e.g. John) in a Lane. You can specify who to play the role when you start your workflow.

   

3. Start event

   Add a start event to the Lane that will trigger the workflow.

   

4. Design tasks

   Click the start event and use its surrounding resource icons to draw tasks. Please name a task by "verb + noun" (e.g. Process Order). Repeat this step to create tasks for all participants.

   

5. Generate Flow Chart to Word

   Produce professional workflow document with just few mouse clicks.