You're reading from Low-Code Application Development with Appian The practitioner's guide to high-speed business automation at enterprise scale using Appian

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205628

Length 462 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Appian

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Stefan Helzle

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: No-Code with Appian Quick Apps

2. Chapter 1: Creating an Appian Quick App FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Features and Limitations of Appian Quick Apps

4. Chapter 3: Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps

5. Chapter 4: The Use Cases for Appian Quick Apps

6. Section 2: A Software Project with Appian

7. Chapter 5: Understanding the Business Context

8. Chapter 6: Understanding Business Data in Appian Projects

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Business Processes in Appian Projects

10. Chapter 8: Understanding UX Discovery and the UI in Appian Projects

11. Section 3: Implementing Software

12. Chapter 9: Modeling Business Data with Appian Records

13. Chapter 10: Modeling Business Processes in Appian

14. Chapter 11: Creating User Interfaces in Appian

15. Chapter 12: Task Management with Appian

16. Chapter 13: Reporting and Monitoring with Appian

17. Section 4: The Code in Appian Low-Code

18. Chapter 14: Expressing Logic with Appian

19. Chapter 15: Using Web Services with Appian Integrations

20. Chapter 16: Useful Implementation Patterns in Appian

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Useful methodologies

Before we analyze the current business process situation, I would like to introduce you to four helpful methodologies:

Business-Process-Modeling-Notation
Five-Whys method
Ishikawa diagram
SIPOC

Business-Process-Modeling-Notation

Business-Process-Modeling-Notation (BPMN) is a way to create formal process models, just like the entity-relationship model for data models.

Figure 7.1 – BPMN example

These models look like the way a process is modeled in Appian.

I have had huge success using simplified BPMN models when conducting workshops with business stakeholders. In the latter half of my project, I will show the Appian process models and everyone will be able to successfully recognize the important parts. This makes the software development process a lot more transparent to my business users.