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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modeling capabilities

Defining the Scope of Modeling

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

Designing a process to build a business model

  • Implementing the workflow: elicit, analyze, document, validate
  • Refining steps through iteration
  • Guiding requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with project deliverables

Addressing the multidimensional facets of a business model

  • Utilizing the five Ws approach: who, what, where, when, why, and how
  • Choosing the most suitable modeling method
  • Utilizing CASE tools and simulation

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Assessing the enterprise
  • Investigating the enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into constituent parts
  • Application of a Component Business Model

Implementing business rules

  • Recording constraints: operational and structural
  • Illustrating rules via decision tables
  • Defining the scope of Business Functions

Starting the process with functional decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML use case diagrams

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

Documenting business use cases

  • Determining the appropriate level of detail
  • 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 a standardized approach
  • Ordering and categorizing activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Polishing business process diagrams

  • Selecting the appropriate gateway: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Assigning processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with additional artifacts

Examining the Enterprise Structure

  • Identifying the business domain
  • Recording personnel and organizational units
  • Modeling systems, documentation, information, and tools

Organizing the enterprise using UML class diagrams

  • Defining object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Establishing associations between classes
  • Grouping into domains and functional units

Completing the Business Model

  • Ensuring comprehensive coverage using matrices
  • Establishing feature priorities
  • Aligning requirements through cross-referencing
  • Linking behavior with roles

Providing context to the model through various perspectives

  • Recording business interfaces
  • Connecting means to ends
  • Defining time parameters

Presenting the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Proficiency with Windows environments is recommended; familiarity with OO technology is advantageous.

Audience:

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

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