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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Essential modeling skills

Defining the Scope of Modeling

  • Understanding the business model
  • Differentiating between textual and graphical components
  • Distinguishing scope from granularity

Developing a Process for Business Model Creation

  • Executing key phases: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Refining phases through iteration
  • Guiding requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Addressing Multidimensional Aspects of Business Models

  • Utilizing the 5W+H method: who, what, where, when, why, and how
  • Choosing the appropriate modeling strategy
  • Incorporating CASE tools and simulation

Mapping the Business Environment

  • Evaluating the enterprise
  • Investigating enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent parts
  • Implementing a Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

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

Initiating with Functional Decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

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

Documenting Business Use Cases

  • Selecting the appropriate granularity
  • Defining preconditions and post-conditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Applying Process Modeling Techniques

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

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

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

Refining Business Process Diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, splits, and merges
  • Assigning processes to swimlanes and pools
  • Enhancing models with additional artifacts

Examining Enterprise Structure

  • Identifying the business domain
  • Documenting workforce and organizational units
  • Modeling systems, documents, data, and tools

Structuring the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

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

Completing the Business Model

  • Ensuring full coverage via matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior to roles

Contextualizing the Model Through Perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapped means to ends
  • Recording time parameters

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Foundational Windows proficiency is required; familiarity with Object-Oriented (OO) technology concepts is advantageous.

Target Audience:

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

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