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Introduction

  • Understanding the necessity of business models
  • Developing modeling competencies

Defining the Scope of Modeling

  • Defining what constitutes a business model
  • Differentiating between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Contrasting scope with level of detail

Establishing a Process for Business Model Development

  • Executing the steps: elicit, analyze, document, validate
  • Implementing iterative cycles
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Exploring Multidimensional Aspects of a Business Model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Analyzing the enterprise context
  • Investigating enterprise architecture
  • Decomposing architecture into its constituent parts
  • Applying a Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

  • Documenting constraints: operative and structural
  • Representing rules using decision tables
  • Defining Business Functions

Initiating the Process via Functional Decomposition

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  • Defining functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

  • Establishing scope and boundaries
  • Identifying actors
  • Refining use cases

Documenting Business Use Cases

  • Selecting the appropriate 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
  • Sequencing and classifying activities
  • Categorizing events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining Business Process Diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Mapping processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with supplementary artifacts

Analyzing the Enterprise Structure

  • Establishing the business domain
  • Documenting workforce and organizational units
  • Modeling systems, documents, information, and tools

Structuring the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

  • Identifying object attributes
  • Defining generalization and specialization relationships
  • Constructing associations between classes
  • Packaging for domains and functional units

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Achieving comprehensive coverage via matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Correlating behavior with roles

Contextualizing the Model through Perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping means to ends
  • Capturing temporal 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

Familiarity with Windows operating systems is recommended. Understanding Object-Oriented technology concepts may also be beneficial.

Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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