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Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Essential modeling competencies

Establishing Modeling Scope

  • Definition of a business model
  • Distinguishing between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Differentiating scope from detail level

Developing a Process for Business Model Creation

  • Implementing key steps: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterating through these phases
  • Conducting requirements workshops effectively
  • Aligning models with specific deliverables

Addressing Multidimensional Aspects of Business Models

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Enterprise analysis
  • Exploring enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent parts
  • Applying the Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

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

Starting the Process with Functional Decomposition

  • Identifying functional hierarchies
  • Distinguishing 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
  • Defining preconditions and post-conditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Applying Process Modeling Techniques

  • Workflows
  • Events
  • Activities
  • Decision points
  • Sequencing
  • Message flows
  • Roles

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of standardization
  • Ordering and categorizing activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining Business Process Diagrams

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

Analyzing Enterprise Structure

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

Organizing the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

  • Defining object attributes
  • Handling generalization and specialization relationships
  • Building associations between classes
  • Grouping by domain and functional units

Completing the Business Model

  • Achieving full coverage using matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior to specific roles

Contextualizing the Model through Perspectives

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

Presenting the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Familiarity with Windows operating systems is recommended; knowledge of object-oriented technology may also be beneficial.

Intended Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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