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Introduction

  • Rationale for utilizing business models
  • Key modeling competencies

Establishing the Scope of Modeling

  • Understanding the concept of a business model
  • Differentiating between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Contrasting scope with the level of detail

Developing a Methodology for Business Model Creation

  • Implementing the steps: elicit, analyze, document, validate
  • Iterative application of these steps
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with project deliverables

Exploring the Multidimensional Dimensions of a Business Model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Analyzing the enterprise structure
  • Investigating enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into its constituent parts
  • Applying the Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

  • Documenting constraints: operational and structural
  • Visualizing rules using decision tables
  • Defining Business Functions

Beginning with Functional Decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

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

Documenting Business Use Cases

  • Determining the appropriate level of detail
  • Specifying preconditions and post-conditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Employing Process Modeling Techniques

  • Workflows
  • Events
  • Activities
  • Decisions
  • Sequencing
  • Messaging
  • Roles

Leveraging Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardized approach
  • Sequencing and classifying activities
  • Categorizing events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining Business Process Diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Assigning processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with artifacts

Analyzing Enterprise Structure

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

Structuring the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

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

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Achieving comprehensive coverage via matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior to roles

Contextualizing the Model with Perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping means to ends
  • Capturing time 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 is recommended. Knowledge of object-oriented technology may be beneficial.

Target Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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