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Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modeling capabilities

Defining the Modeling Scope

  • Understanding the business model
  • Distinguishing between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Comparing scope with detail granularity

Developing a process for business model creation

  • Implementing the workflow: elicit, analyze, document, validate
  • Iterating through the process steps
  • Conducting requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with project deliverables

Mapping the multidimensional nature of a business model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Evaluating the enterprise
  • Investigating enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent parts
  • Application of a Component Business Model

Implementing business rules

  • Recording constraints: operational 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

  • Defining scope and boundaries
  • Recognizing actors
  • Refining use cases

Documenting business use cases

  • Choosing the appropriate level of detail
  • Specifying 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 approach
  • Sequencing and categorizing activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining business process diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Assigning processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enriching the model with artifacts

Analyzing the Enterprise Structure

  • Defining the business domain
  • Documenting personnel and organizational units
  • Modeling systems, documents, information, and tools

Structuring the enterprise with UML class diagrams

  • Identifying object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Building associations among classes
  • Grouping for domains and functional units

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Ensuring comprehensive coverage through matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior to roles

Contextualizing the model through perspectives

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

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Familiarity with Windows operating systems; knowledge of OO technologies is advantageous.

Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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