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Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modeling competencies

Establishing Modeling Scope

  • Definition of a business model
  • Differentiating between textual and graphical components
  • Distinction between scope and level of detail

Developing a Business Model Process

  • Executing the workflow: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterative refinement of steps
  • Moderating requirements workshops
  • Linking models to project deliverables

Charting Multidimensional Business Model Aspects

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

Mapping the Business Environment

  • Enterprise analysis
  • Investigation of enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into constituent parts
  • Application of a Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

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

Initiating the Process via Functional Decomposition

  • Identifying functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

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

Documenting Business Use Cases

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

Utilizing Process Modeling Techniques

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

Using 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: decision points, splits, and merges
  • Aligning processes with swimlanes and pools
  • Augmenting the model with additional artifacts

Assessing Enterprise Structure

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

Structuring the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

  • Identifying object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Building associations among classes
  • Packaging for domains and functional units

Completing the Business Model

  • Achieving full coverage through matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior to roles

Contextualizing the Model via Perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping means to ends
  • Recording time-related parameters

Presenting the Model to Key Stakeholders

  • Understanding your audience
  • Selecting the appropriate level of detail
  • Choosing the optimal model for the target audience
  • Translating business models into user requirements
  • Delivering your models

Requirements

Foundational knowledge of Windows operating systems is required; familiarity with Object-Oriented (OO) technology is advantageous.

Intended Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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