YAWL User Group
Hi, I am Andreas Hense, an experienced IT professional and academic with over 30 years in IT consulting and Business Information Systems. I have held leadership roles in various sectors, including managing Rheni GmbH, and serve as a professor at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, specializing in Business Process Automation. My project experience includes modeling and automating business processes for high-profile clients.
The YAWL User Group provides expert tutorials on business process modeling using BPMN and business process automation using the YAWL workflow engine.
Learn how to model, analyse, and automate business processes. You'll explore modeling languages such as BPMN, YAWL, and Workflow Nets. In the automation section, you'll find over 50 YAWL tutorials and a wealth of supplementary materials. The first videos guide you through installing YAWL on your computer, so you can get started right away.

Why German Traffic Lights Confuse Americans

BPMN Business Process: ChatGPT Tackles It in Chapters

BPMN Modeling: Gemini Outsmarts ChatGPT?

Will ChatGPT Make BPMN Modelers Unemployed?

Choosing Workflow Participants Dynamically Based on Capabilities

Can ChatGPT Build BPMN Models for Camunda?

Strengthen Automation with BPMN, YAWL, and Process Mining

YAWL Commencement on Creation (Live Demo)

BPMN Live Modeling: Tutorial 1

BPMN Challenge: Find More Modeling Mistakes

YAWL: How Work Queues Are Ordered

How Good are BPMN and Camunda at Control Flow?

YAWL vs BPMN: How to Start a Process

Round Robin Allocation in YAWL

Objects in BPMS: the Scopes are Wrong

How startQuantity Works in BPMN

YAWL: Work Items Visibility in Action (Live Demo)

Auto-Start Tasks in YAWL: Chained Execution!

Control Task Piling in YAWL (Live Demo)

YAWL Commencement on Allocation (Live Demo)

Bureaucracy Champion Germany

BPMN Terminate End Events Explained Simply

BPMN Challenge: Find the Modeling Mistakes

BPMN Challenge: Find the Mistakes in 6 Process Diagrams!

Thread Split: BPMN Standard Feature Not Implemented

YAWL Demo: Redoing Completed Tasks

Why Traditional BPM Systems Fall Short – And How to Fix Them!

We Tried Object-Centric Process Mining—Here’s What We Learned!

How a Petri Net Explains Espresso Machine Behaviour

Why I like Petri Nets: 4 Reasons