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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modeling competencies

Defining the Scope of Modeling

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

Designing a process for developing a business model

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

Mapping the multidimensional aspects of a business model

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

Visualizing the Business Environment

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

Implementing business rules

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

Commencing the process via functional decomposition

  • Identifying functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML use case diagrams

  • Establishing scope and system boundaries
  • Recognizing actors
  • Refining use cases

Documenting business use cases

  • Selecting the suitable level of detail
  • Defining preconditions and post-conditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Applying process modeling techniques

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

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

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

Enhancing business process diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, splits, and joins
  • Assigning processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enriching the model with supplementary artifacts

Evaluating the Enterprise Framework

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

Organizing the enterprise using UML class diagrams

  • Defining object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Forming associations between classes
  • Grouping into domains and functional units

Completing the Business Model

  • Achieving comprehensive coverage through matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Mapping requirements
  • Aligning behavior with roles

Providing context to the model through perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping from means to ends
  • Recording time parameters

Presenting the Model to Key Stakeholders

  • Understanding your audience
  • Choosing the appropriate level of detail
  • Selecting the suitable model for the audience
  • Translating business models into user requirements
  • Presenting your models

Requirements

Foundational understanding of Windows; knowledge of object-oriented technology is beneficial.

Target Audience:

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

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