Workflow

A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as the work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. A workflow is a model to represent real work for further assessment, for example, for describing a reliably repeatable sequence of operations. More abstractly, a workflow is a pattern of activity enabled by a systematic organization of resources, defined roles and mass, energy and information flows, into a work process that can be documented and learned. Refer to Wikipedia for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow.

While Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), developed by the Object Management Group (OMG), provides a notation that is readily understandable by all business users, from the business analysts that create the initial drafts of the processes to the technical developers responsible for implementing the technology that will perform...