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Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Core modeling competencies

Establishing the Scope of Modeling

  • Defining what a business model entails
  • Differentiating between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Contrasting scope against the level of detail

Developing a Process for Business Model Creation

  • Executing the steps: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterating through these steps
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Exploring the Multidimensional Aspects of a Business Model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Analyzing the enterprise structure
  • Examining enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into constituent components
  • Utilizing a Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

  • Documenting constraints: operational and structural
  • Representing rules via decision tables
  • Scoping Business Functions

Initiating the Process via Functional Decomposition

  • Establishing 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 suitable 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 derived from a standardized approach
  • Sequencing and classifying activities
  • Categorizing events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining Business Process Diagrams

  • Selecting the appropriate gateway: 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 personnel and organizational units
  • Modeling systems, documents, information, and tools

Structuring the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

  • Determining object attributes
  • Establishing generalization and specialization relationships
  • Constructing associations between classes
  • Organizing for domains and functional units

Finalizing the Business Model

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

Contextualizing the Model with 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 beneficial. Knowledge of Object-Oriented technology is advantageous.

Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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