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Beyond the Diagram

The bi-weekly process lab

Every other Thursday we take one real process challenge and work through it on camera. No slides, no lectures. Just honest modeling, recorded and sent straight to your inbox.

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How the lab works

1

Bring your questions and challenges

Submit a topic, share an experience or suggest something worth exploring. From BPMN modelling and governance to AI adoption and business transformation.

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2

We explore it on camera

We take real-world challenges and concepts into the lab. Sometimes we build models from scratch. Other times we break down methods, explore best practices or rethink how work gets done.

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Join the conversation

Have a different approach? Something to add? Share your perspective, ask questions and exchange ideas with other process practitioners.

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Put it into practice

Take away practical techniques, downloadable examples and resources. Try them in your own work, share your results and help shape what we explore next.

Your hosts

Together they've taught 50,000+ professionals how to model processes that actually work.

Fabian Hinsenkamp

Fabian Hinsenkamp

Software Engineer & BPMN Educator

Picks the challenges, steers the conversation, and connects each one to the right patterns.

Sebastian Lesser

Sebastian Lesser

Head of Product & BPMN Expert

Models the processes on camera, explains his thinking, and answers the hard questions.

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Episode 13 · October 22, 2026

Where Should AI Go First? Prioritizing Processes and Tasks With Attributes

How to prioritise AI initiatives from your process models instead of case by case. We ran two passes: on the process level, two simple attributes and a filter produced a shortlist; on the task level, value potential against feasibility picked the first initiatives. In our example that left five concrete opportunities.

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Episode 12 · October 8, 2026

Automating a Quote Process Step by Step: From Baseline to Roadmap

We took our own offer process, the one we use to quote every customer, and walked it from as-is to to-be live. Not in one leap but in milestones: an agent drafting offers, offers published on a portal, and contracts triggered on acceptance, each one a change small enough to hand to an implementation team.

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Episode 11 · September 10, 2026

We Drove Our Own Expense Process Close to Full Autonomy

Our own finance operation, taken apart and redesigned from scratch around AI. We modelled the ideal on a green field: snap a receipt and the agent labels, classifies and matches it against payments, with weekly runs instead of a month-end scramble. The diagram became the spec for our developers, and the process has been running live ever since.

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Episode 10 · August 27, 2026

Most BPMN Diagrams Get This Wrong

Why mixing departments, systems and roles in the same view quietly breaks a process landscape. We tied each view to a modelling level: on the business level, lanes show responsibilities; on the system level, systems become pools and message flows show their interactions. And we landed on one principle: consistency beats correctness.

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A dedicated live session tailored to your team's processes and challenges. We model your real workflows, answer your specific questions, and help your team build BPMN skills together.

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