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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Overview

  • The necessity of business models
  • Essential modeling capabilities

Establishing the Scope of Modeling

  • Definition of a business model
  • Distinguishing between textual and graphical components
  • Differentiating scope from granularity

Designing a workflow for business model creation

  • Implementing key phases: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Refining steps through iteration
  • Moderating requirements sessions
  • Aligning models with project outputs

Addressing the multi-faceted nature of a business model

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

Mapping the Business Environment

  • Assessing the organization
  • Examining enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent parts
  • Implementing a Component Business Model

Implementing business rules

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

Starting the process via functional decomposition

  • Identifying functional hierarchies
  • Distinguishing between functions and processes

Creating UML use case diagrams

  • Setting scope and boundaries
  • Recognizing actors
  • Refining use cases

Recording business use cases

  • Selecting the suitable level of detail
  • Defining preconditions and postconditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Utilizing process modeling methods

  • Workflows
  • Events
  • Activities
  • Decision points
  • Ordering
  • Communication
  • Roles

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

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

Improving business process diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, splits, and merges
  • Aligning processes with swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with supporting artifacts

Evaluating the Enterprise Framework

  • Defining the business domain
  • Recording personnel and organizational units
  • Modeling systems, documents, data, and tools

Organizing the enterprise with UML class diagrams

  • Defining object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Creating associations between classes
  • Grouping for domains and functional areas

Completing the Business Model

  • Ensuring full coverage via matrices
  • Setting feature priorities
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior to roles

Contextualizing the model through perspectives

  • Recording business interfaces
  • Mapping from means to objectives
  • Capturing temporal parameters

Presenting the Model to Principal Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Familiarity with Windows environments and Object-Oriented technology concepts is advantageous.

Target Audience:

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

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