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title: Jan Mendling
type: entity
tags: [researcher, bpm, modelling, quality]
affiliation: Humboldt University of Berlin (formerly WU Vienna); previously Institute for Information Business, Vienna University of Economics and Business
sources: ["[[sources/2018-dumas-fundamentals-of-bpm]]"]
created: 2026-04-13
updated: 2026-04-15
---

# Jan Mendling

Professor; at time of *Fundamentals of BPM* 2nd ed. (2018) at **WU Vienna**. Known for work on process model quality, verification, **Seven Process Modeling Guidelines (7PMG)**, and BPM education.

## Contributions in this wiki
- [[sources/2018-dumas-fundamentals-of-bpm]] — co-author of the canonical BPM textbook.
- [[sources/2012-ottensooser-graphical-vs-textual]] — co-author of the JSS experiment on BPMN vs. written use cases (affiliation at time: WU Vienna).

## Related
[[concepts/process-model-quality]] · [[concepts/process-discovery]]