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Course Outline

Introduction

  • Why business models are essential
  • Essential modeling skills

Defining the Scope of Modeling

  • Understanding what a business model is
  • Distinguishing between textual and diagrammatic elements
  • Differentiating scope from the level of detail

Establishing a Process to Develop a Business Model

  • Implementing the steps: elicit, analyze, document, and validate
  • Iterating through these steps
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Linking models to specific deliverables

Exploring the Multidimensional Aspects of a Business Model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Analyzing the enterprise
  • Examining the enterprise architecture
  • Decomposing the architecture into its constituent components
  • Applying the Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

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

Commencing with Functional Decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

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

Documenting Business Use Cases

  • Choosing the appropriate level of detail
  • Specifying preconditions and postconditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Applying Process Modeling Techniques

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

Leveraging Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Benefits of a standardized approach
  • Sequencing and classifying activities
  • Categorizing events
  • Emulating a Business Process

Refining Business Process Diagrams

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

Analyzing the Enterprise Structure

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

Structuring the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

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

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Achieving comprehensive coverage with matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Correlating behavior with roles

Contextualizing the Model with Perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping from 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 required; knowledge of Object-Oriented (OO) technology is beneficial.

Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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