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Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modeling competencies

Defining the Scope of Modeling

  • What is a business model?
  • Distinguishing between textual and diagrammatic elements
  • Comparing scope with level of detail

Crafting a process to develop a business model

  • Executing the steps: elicit, analyze, document, validate
  • Iterating through the steps
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Charting the multidimensional aspects of a business model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Examining the enterprise
  • Investigating the enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into its components
  • Application of a Component Business Model

Applying business rules

  • Recording constraints: operative and structural
  • Representing rules using decision tables
  • Scoping Business Functions

Initiating the process with functional decomposition

  • Identifying functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Drawing UML use case diagrams

  • Establishing scope and boundary
  • Identifying the actors
  • Refining the 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

Leveraging Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardized approach
  • Ordering and classifying activities
  • Categorizing events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining business process diagrams

  • Selecting the correct gateway: decisions, forks and joins
  • Mapping processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with artifacts

Analyzing the Enterprise Structure

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

Structuring the enterprise with UML class diagrams

  • Defining object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Building associations between classes
  • Packaging for domains and functional units

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Achieving complete coverage with matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior with roles

Contextualizing the model with perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping from means into ends
  • Recording time parameters

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Basic Windows knowledge, OO technology knowledge may be useful.

Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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