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Introduction

  • The importance of business models
  • Essential modeling competencies

Defining the Scope of Modeling

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

Crafting a process to develop a business model

  • Executing the cycle: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterating through the development steps
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with project deliverables

Charting the multidimensional aspects of a business model

  • Utilizing the five Ws framework: who, what, where, when, why, and how
  • Choosing the most suitable modeling approach
  • Utilizing CASE tools and simulation methods

Mapping the Business Landscape

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

Applying business rules

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

Initiating the process with functional decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Drawing UML use case diagrams

  • Setting scope and system boundaries
  • Identifying key actors
  • Refining the use cases

Documenting business use cases

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

Applying process modeling techniques

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

Leveraging Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

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

Refining business process diagrams

  • Selecting the appropriate gateway: decisions, splits, and merges
  • Assigning processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enriching the model with relevant artifacts

Analyzing the 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
  • Establishing associations between classes
  • Organizing classes into domains and functional units

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Ensuring comprehensive coverage using matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Aligning behavior with specific roles

Contextualizing the model with perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping from methods to outcomes
  • Capturing time-based parameters

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Familiarity with Windows and an understanding of object-oriented technology are beneficial.

Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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