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Course Outline

Introduction

  • Why business models are essential
  • Developing modeling skills

Defining the Scope of Modeling

  • What constitutes a business model?
  • Differentiating between textual and diagrammatic elements
  • Comparing scope against level of detail

Developing a process to build a business model

  • Implementing the steps: elicit, analyze, document, validate
  • Refining the steps through iteration
  • Running effective requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Exploring the multidimensional aspects of a business model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Analyzing the enterprise
  • Investigating the enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into its components
  • Applying a Component Business Model

Applying business rules

  • Recording constraints: operative and structural
  • Using decision tables to represent rules
  • Defining the scope of Business Functions

Starting the process with functional decomposition

  • Identifying functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML use case diagrams

  • Establishing scope and boundary
  • Recognizing the actors
  • Refining the use cases

Documenting business use cases

  • Choosing the appropriate level of detail
  • Defining preconditions and post-conditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Using 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 correct gateway: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Assigning processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with artifacts

Analyzing the Enterprise Structure

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

Organizing the enterprise with UML class diagrams

  • Identifying object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Creating associations between classes
  • Grouping by domains and functional units

Completing the Business Model

  • Ensuring full coverage using matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior with roles

Adding context to the model with perspectives

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

Presenting the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

Foundational knowledge of Windows operating systems is expected, while familiarity with OO technology may be beneficial.

Audience:

Suitable for business consultants, business analysts, project managers, and IT professionals.

 21 Hours

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