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Overview

  • The necessity of business models
  • Essential modeling competencies

Defining Modeling Scope

  • Definition of a business model
  • Differentiating between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Distinguishing between scope and detail level

Developing a Business Model Process

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

Addressing Multidimensional Aspects of Business Models

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Assessing the enterprise structure
  • Reviewing enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent components
  • Application of a Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

  • Recording constraints: operational and structural
  • Representing rules via decision tables
  • Defining the scope of Business Functions

Starting the Process with Functional Decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Distinguishing between functions and processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

  • Defining scope and system boundaries
  • Identifying actors
  • Refining use cases

Documenting Business Use Cases

  • Choosing the appropriate level of detail
  • Specifying preconditions and postconditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Applying Process Modeling Techniques

  • Workflows
  • Events
  • Activities
  • Decision points
  • Sequencing
  • Messaging
  • Roles

Using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

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

Optimizing Business Process Diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, splits, and merges
  • Mapping processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with additional artifacts

Assessing Enterprise Structure

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

Structuring the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

  • Defining object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Establishing associations between classes
  • Grouping by domains and functional units

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Achieving full coverage using matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior to roles

Contextualizing the Model with Perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping from 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 the audience
  • Translating business models into user requirements
  • Presenting your models

Requirements

Familiarity with the Windows operating environment is required; prior knowledge of Object-Oriented (OO) technologies is beneficial.

Target Audience:

Business consultants, business analysts, project managers, and IT specialists.

 21 Hours

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