The ultimate beginners guide
a learning path for rules and process automation
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Goals for this guide
There are so many ways and so much content out there to get you started with open source
rules and process automation tooling by Red Hat, so where do you start? The goal of this
guide is to provide you with a learning path through this content as a way to get started
from download, to installation, to quick starts, to hands-on workshops, and all the way to
using this technology for your cloud-native development projects.
You'll walk away from this guide with a learning path mapped out through content that's
enjoyable to work with and can help you get started on your rules and process automation
projects today.
Beginners guide learning path
There is a way to start from the beginning and walk a path to rules and process automation
proficiency, outlined as follows:
- Choosing the rules or process automation path
- Obtain the tooling (downloads)
- Quick start projects (installs, cloud native, demos)
- Free hands-on workshops
- Published content collections
- Video collections
1. Choosing rules or process automation
Decisions or rules in a business can become more complex than you want to hard
code into your application. Using a decision management platform allows you to externalize
your business decisions from your applications and their development lifecycle.
Processes or process automation captures your business activities (rules, tasks, events,
services) in a consistent, measurable, and reusable fashion. Process automation tooling
enables you to design, implement, integrate, deploy, manage, and gain insights into your
organizations processes.
2. Obtaining the tooling
All provided content links you to the Red Hat Developer products page, After registration
you're given access to these products in a $0 developer subscription, meaning you can
explore your development projects without paying for their use. The featured products are:
Available on the same download sites, just scroll down for older versions:
3. Quick start projects
The following are projects the projects available for getting you started as quickly as
possible. These all are automated installations with completely functioning projects for
you to explore. There are two collections available:
- JBoss Demo
Central (projects for rules, process automation, and more)
- Red Hat Demo
Central (cloud native projects covering rules and process automation on
OpenShift)
JBoss Demo Central collection
Red Hat Demo Central collection
4. Free hands-on workshops
There are a multitude of workshops online for getting started with decision management,
process automation, or any of the older versions of the tooling:
5. Published content collections
There has been so much published around the decision management and process automation (both
the current and past versions) that I'll provide an overview here followed by some examples:
Older versions:
Published BPM Suite book
Effective Business Process Management with JBoss BPM
JBoss BPM helps you solve real-world business challenges by helping you improve
operational efficiency. In this book, author and Red Hatter Eric D. Schabell walks
you through how to install, set up, and use JBoss BPM to capture organizational
processes and create repeatable, measurable, and consistent business goal execution.
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6. Video collections
There are several places to find the video content for learning about decisions and
process automation (or older versions of these tools):
1.
YouTube channel
2.
Vimeo channel
YouTube channel collection
The End
For questions just reach out, thanks for your time and feedback is welcome!
The ultimate beginners guide a learning path for rules and process automation Eric D. Schabell Portfolio Architect Director @ericschabell http://schabell.org