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Introduction

  • The importance of business models
  • Essential modeling skills

Defining the Scope of Modeling

  • Understanding the concept of a business model
  • Distinguishing between textual and diagrammatic elements
  • Differentiating scope from the level of detail

Developing a process to create a business model

  • Executing the workflow: elicit, analyze, document, and validate
  • Iterating through the steps
  • Moderating requirements workshops
  • Linking models to specific deliverables

Addressing the multidimensional aspects of a business model

  • Utilizing the five Ws framework: who, what, where, when, why, and how
  • Choosing the appropriate modeling strategy
  • Utilizing CASE tools and simulation techniques

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Conducting enterprise analysis
  • Examining enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent components
  • Implementing a Component Business Model

Implementing business rules

  • Recording constraints: both operative and structural
  • Illustrating rules via decision tables
  • Defining the scope of Business Functions

Starting the process with functional decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML use case diagrams

  • Setting the scope and boundaries
  • Identifying actors
  • Refining use cases

Documenting business use cases

  • Selecting the suitable level of detail
  • Defining preconditions and post-conditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Applying process modeling techniques

  • Workflows
  • Events
  • Activities
  • Decisions
  • Sequencing
  • Messaging
  • Roles

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardized methodology
  • Ordering and categorizing activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Improving business process diagrams

  • Selecting the appropriate gateway: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Aligning processes with swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with additional artifacts

Examining the Enterprise Structure

  • Defining the business domain
  • Recording workers and organizational units
  • Modeling systems, documents, information, and tools

Organizing the enterprise using UML class diagrams

  • Identifying object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Building associations between classes
  • Grouping by domains and functional units

Completing the Business Model

  • Ensuring complete coverage using matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Aligning behavior with roles

Contextualizing the model through various perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping means to ends
  • Recording time-related parameters

Presenting the Model to Key Stakeholders

  • Understanding the target audience
  • Selecting the appropriate level of detail
  • Choosing the suitable model for the audience
  • Translating business models into user requirements
  • Presenting the models effectively

Requirements

Basic familiarity with Windows and knowledge of OO technology are beneficial.

Audience:

Business consultants, Business analysts, Project Managers, IT professionals.

 21 Hours

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