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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modeling competencies

Establishing the Scope of Modeling

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

Developing a Process for Business Modeling

  • Executing the workflow: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterating through these stages
  • Moderating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Mapping the Multidimensional Aspects of a Business Model

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

Mapping the Business Environment

  • Evaluating the enterprise
  • Investigating the enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into constituent parts
  • Application of a Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

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

Commencing the Process with Functional Decomposition

  • Defining functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

  • Establishing 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
  • Decision points
  • Sequencing
  • Messages
  • Roles

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardized approach
  • Sequencing and categorizing activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining Business Process Diagrams

  • Selecting the correct gateways: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Aligning processes with swimlanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with additional artifacts

Examining the Enterprise Structure

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

Organizing the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

  • Identifying object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Building associations between classes
  • Grouping for domains and functional units

Completing the Business Model

  • Ensuring full coverage via matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Interlinking requirements
  • Aligning behavior with roles

Contextualizing the Model Through Perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping means to ends
  • Capturing temporal parameters

Conveying the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Foundational understanding of Windows, along with knowledge of object-oriented technologies, is beneficial.

Target Audience:

Business consultants, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and IT specialists.

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