How Universal Process Notation (UPN) supports a human-centric BPM approach - with UPN co-inventor Walter Bril

New Process Podcast

#035 Let’s discuss the advantages of UPN and how it can support the human-centric BPM approach.
In this episode, I'm talking to Walter Bril about the main aspects of Universal Process Notation (UPN) and how it supports the human-centric BPM approach. We discuss the five questions that need to be answered and compare it to other notations such as BPMN 2.0. What is the advantage of UPN? Do you really not need swim lanes to model processes in a lean way? Let's find out..
Today’s Guest:
Walter Bril

Walter is the co-inventor of UPN. He developed UPN in the early 2000s alongside several colleagues at Nimbus, a company later acquired by TIBCO.

Before joining Nimbus, Walter worked as a Process Consultant for various companies in the Netherlands. Today, he holds the position of Customer Success Manager at Elements.cloud, a platform that can also be utilized for mapping processes in UPN.

Walter lives in Nuth, located in the southern Netherlands, close to the German border and not far from Aachen.

You’ll learn:

• What the core principles behind the lean and clear approach of UPN are
• What UPN looks like
• What the five essential questions of UPN are
• How to adopt UPN's human-centric approach as an alternative to traditional BPMN 2.0 methods
• How to start using UPN

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https://www.NewProcessLab.com/episode35

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