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en:rule:different_rhytms [2024-08-28 20:53] – [Activities performed in different rhytms belong to separate processes] Anatoly Belaychuken:rule:different_rhytms [2024-11-02 13:54] (current) – [Notes] Anatoly Belaychuk
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 From performers' (organizational, functional) point of view, they update the price list first, then develop the sales plan and finally fulfill the deal. From performers' (organizational, functional) point of view, they update the price list first, then develop the sales plan and finally fulfill the deal.
-Yet BPMN means literally what's drawn so we depict the process like this (see [[#how not to]]) then it will mean that we close exactly one deal per month, which obviously is not the case.  +Yet BPMN diagram should be treated literally so if we depict the process this way (see [[#how not to]]) then it would mean that we close exactly one deal per month, which obviously is not the case. 
-As for the price list, it's usually updated not by a schedule, but in connection with market events that may happen any time. + 
 +As for the price list, it's usually updated not by a schedule but in responce to market events that may happen any time.  
 Therefore, there are three different events in this case, namely a voluntaristic decision to adjust the price list, a monthly deadline for a sales plan, and a purchase request obtained from a client. Therefore, there are three different events in this case, namely a voluntaristic decision to adjust the price list, a monthly deadline for a sales plan, and a purchase request obtained from a client.
-It means three different (although connected via data) processes.  +It means three different (yet connected) processes. 
-(The [[#how to]] diagram depicts them as black boxes, it is assumed that each process will be expanded on a separate diagram.)+ 
 +The [[#how to]] diagram depicts them as black box pools, assuming that each process would be expanded on a separate diagram. 
 +BPMN spec doesn't allow to connect a data association to a pool so one need to use directed associations here (which looks exactly the same).
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