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Teaching BPM Fundamentals: A Project-Based Hands-On Course for Process-Driven Systems Modeling and Development

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Computer Science curricula usually develop software modeling, design, and implementation skills involving standard languages, best practices, and different languages and architectures. However, they do not often involve the specific modeling, design, and implementation of business processes (BPs) using Business Process Management Systems, which require making BPs explicit (e.g., specified in BPMN 2.0) and driving the system development and execution by such models. A specific theoretical, conceptual, and technological background is needed in this context. This paper presents a project-based, hands-on approach to modeling and developing process-driven systems, which we integrated into our Computer Science curricula. We present the experience and highlight lessons learned about essential elements for students learning.

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  1. Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, 11300, Uruguay

    Andrea Delgado & Daniel Calegari

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  1. University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

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  2. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Orlenys López-Pintado

  3. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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  4. University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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  5. AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

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  6. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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  7. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Macul, Chile

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  8. University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Delgado, A., Calegari, D. (2023). Teaching BPM Fundamentals: A Project-Based Hands-On Course for Process-Driven Systems Modeling and Development. In: Köpke, J., et al. Business Process Management: Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation and Educators Forum. BPM 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 491. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43433-4_14

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