Arindam Ghosh July 21, 2009, 1 p.m.

I am trying to represent a scenario where web meetings are held with different participants. In the meeting I need to represent the following situations:-
1) the meeting requires an user (who must attend) and either the manager or the assistant must be present for the meeting to be started
2) the assistant will records the minutes of the meeting, and the manager will record the decision. The user will present his documents.

Can anyone tell me how to model this scenario in a BPMN diagram

Markus Güntert Sept. 3, 2009, 11:16 a.m.

Hello Arindam,

I tried modeling it with the basic BPMN elements. I'm sure there are more sophisticated solutions for your problem, I mostly want to figure out if I understood your problem correctly.

Marcio Carneiro Feb. 2, 2010, 2:35 p.m.

You are lohttp://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/oking for Compendium:

Markus Güntert Feb. 4, 2010, 5:59 a.m.

Dear Mr. Carneiro,

unfortunately your provided link is not working. Can you please refine?

Thanks & Regards, Markus Guentert

Alexander Grosskopf Feb. 4, 2010, 9:53 p.m.

This was the link he wanted to paste: http://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/

Bill Macaulay March 3, 2010, 8:31 p.m.

While Markus deserves applause for attempting to model the basic meeting, when dealing with human collaboration it is likely to be wrong, and modeled below a reasonable level. I think this question is better looked at in the generic sense: when in the midst of a swimlane diagram and you have a shared task, how do you model it if a task can only belong to one swimlane? Do we create an additional aggregate swimlane representing the group? Put the task in the swimlane responsbile for scheduling the meeting? Before BPMN, many would just extend a task across swimlanes. How do we handle this in BPMN?

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