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Introduction

  • The importance of business models
  • Essential modeling competencies

Defining the Scope of Modeling

  • Understanding the business model
  • Distinguishing between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Differentiating scope from granularity of detail

Developing a process for creating business models

  • Implementing key steps: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterative refinement of these steps
  • Facilitating effective requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with project deliverables

Addressing the multidimensional nature of business models

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Analyzing the enterprise structure
  • Exploring enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent components
  • Implementing the Component Business Model

Applying business rules

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

Initiating the process via functional decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML use case diagrams

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

Documenting business use cases

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

Applying process modeling techniques

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

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardized approach
  • Sequencing and categorizing activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining business process diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, splits, and joins
  • Mapping processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing models with additional artifacts

Analyzing the Enterprise Structure

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

Structuring the enterprise using UML class diagrams

  • Defining object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Building associations between classes
  • Packaging for domains and functional units

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Ensuring comprehensive coverage through matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior to roles

Contextualizing the model with different perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping from means to ends
  • Capturing temporal parameters

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Familiarity with basic Windows operating systems and Object-Oriented (OO) technology concepts is beneficial.

Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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