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Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Essential modeling skills

Defining the Scope of Modeling

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

Crafting a process to develop a business model

  • Implementing the workflow: elicit, analyze, document, and validate
  • Iterating through the steps
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with specific deliverables

Charting the multidimensional aspects of a business model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Evaluating the enterprise
  • Examining enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into constituent parts
  • Application of a Component Business Model

Applying business rules

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

Initiating the process with functional decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Distinguishing between functions and processes

Drawing UML use case diagrams

  • Defining scope and boundaries
  • Identifying 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
  • Decisions
  • Sequencing
  • Messaging
  • Roles

Leveraging Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardized approach
  • Sequencing and classifying activities
  • Categorizing events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining business process diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: 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

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

Finalizing the Business Model

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

Contextualizing the model with perspectives

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

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Foundational knowledge of Windows is required, while familiarity with object-oriented technology is beneficial.

Target Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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