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Course Outline

Introduction

  • The importance of business models
  • Developing modeling skills

Defining the Scope of Modeling

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

Establishing a Process for Business Model Development

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

Exploring the Multidimensional Aspects of a Business Model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Analyzing the enterprise
  • Exploring enterprise architecture
  • Decomposing architecture into its components
  • Applying a Component Business Model

Applying Business Rules

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

Initiating the Process with Functional Decomposition

  • Determining functional hierarchies
  • Distinguishing between functions and processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

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

Documenting Business Use Cases

  • Selecting the appropriate level of detail
  • Specifying preconditions and post-conditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Applying Process Modeling Techniques

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

Leveraging Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Benefits of a standardized approach
  • Sequencing and classifying activities
  • Categorizing events
  • Emulating a Business Process

Refining Business Process Diagrams

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

Analyzing the Enterprise Structure

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

Structuring the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

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

Finalizing the Business Model

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

Contextualizing the Model with Perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping means to ends
  • Capturing 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
  • Delivering your models

Requirements

Basic understanding of Windows is required; knowledge of Object-Oriented (OO) technology may be beneficial.

Target Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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