BPMN
Business Process Model and Notation is the ISO 19510 standard for graphically representing business processes as flowcharts. BPMN diagrams use a small vocabulary of shapes (rectangles for activities, diamonds for gateways, circles for events) so the same process model is readable by analysts and executable by workflow engines.
BPMN is the lingua franca of process mining and workflow automation. A well-formed BPMN diagram can be: read by humans, validated by tooling, executed by a BPMN engine, and version-controlled. Process mining produces BPMN diagrams automatically from event logs — useful for diagnosing where reality diverges from the documented process.
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