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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modeling competencies

Establishing the Scope of Modeling

  • Defining a business model
  • Distinguishing between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Differentiating scope from depth of detail

Developing a Methodology for Business Modeling

  • Implementing phases: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Refining steps iteratively
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Addressing Multidimensional Aspects of Business Models

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

Mapping the Business Environment

  • Assessing the enterprise
  • Examining enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into components
  • Application of a Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

  • Recording constraints: operational and structural
  • Illustrating rules via decision tables
  • Defining Business Functions

Starting with Functional Decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating functions from processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

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

Documenting Business Use Cases

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

Utilizing Process Modeling Techniques

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

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardized approach
  • Ordering and classifying activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Enhancing Business Process Diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, splits, and merges
  • Assigning processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Augmenting the model with artifacts

Assessing Enterprise Structure

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

Organizing the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

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

Completing the Business Model

  • Achieving full coverage using matrices
  • Ranking features
  • Linking requirements
  • Aligning behavior with roles

Providing Context via Perspectives

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

Presenting the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Familiarity with Windows operating systems is helpful; knowledge of Object-Oriented technologies is also beneficial.

Target Audience:

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

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