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Course Outline
Understanding Business Processes
- Definition of a business process
- Types of business processes
- Unified Modelling Language (UML)
- Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)
- Use Cases
- An incremental approach to modelling
Process Improvement Life Cycle
- Assembling the team
- Integration with the development life cycle
- The process improvement life cycle: radical versus incremental improvement
Defining Business Processes
- Business Use Case Diagrams
- Business Use Cases and Business Actors
- Modelling high-level and group processes
- Business Process Modelling Workshop (case study)
Mapping to System Requirements
- System Use Cases
- Mapping Actors and Use Cases
- Mapping Activities
- Mapping Business Scenarios
- Mapping Business Workers
- Mapping the Business Entity Model
- Mapping Workshop
Preliminary Process Assessment
- External factors
- Identifying core and supporting processes
- Setting improvement targets
- Identifying customers and stakeholders
Business Process Models
- Advantages and disadvantages of various modelling techniques
- Components of a process model
- Introduction to use case scenarios
- Business objects
- Mapping the workflow
Modelling Current Processes
- Interviews and focus groups
- Modelling conditions, triggers, events, and business rules
- Levels of abstraction
- Modelling tips and techniques
- Knowing when to stop
Quantifying Processes
- Determining what and how much to measure
- Measuring customer satisfaction
- Measuring performance
- Measuring efficiency
- Analyzing current processes
Analysing Activities
- Identifying value-added activities
- Analysing workflow patterns and constraints
- Dynamic analysis - simulation
- Identifying areas for improvement
- Modelling the new process
Generating New Ideas
- Documenting alternatives
- Integrating performance measurement mechanisms
- Capturing and representing process knowledge
- Managing the modelling process
Implementing New Business Process Models
- Mapping to system requirements
- Policies and procedures manuals
- Models as tools for change management
- Process management
Selecting Methods/Tools
- Method evaluation, selection, and customization
- Modelling and simulation tools
- Workflow management tools
- Intranets and Extranets
- Process and knowledge management tools
14 Hours
Testimonials (2)
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Frank Mhlongo - Standard Bank of South Africa
Course - JBoss
The training is very interesting and can be useful on our future projects and the trainer is always active on answering our questions and helping us when we are having issues on our end.