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Introduction

  • The importance of business models
  • Developing modelling capabilities

Defining the Scope of Modelling

  • Understanding what a business model entails
  • Distinguishing between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Comparing scope with the level of detail

Building a process to develop a business model

  • Executing the cycle: elicit, analyze, document, and validate
  • Refining the steps through iteration
  • Leading requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Addressing the multidimensional aspects of a business model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Assessing the enterprise
  • Examining the enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down the architecture into constituent parts
  • Applying the Component Business Model

Implementing business rules

  • Recording constraints: both operative and structural
  • Illustrating rules using decision tables
  • Defining the scope of Business Functions

Initiating the process via functional decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML use case diagrams

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

Recording business use cases

  • Choosing the suitable level of detail
  • Defining preconditions and post-conditions
  • Modelling Business Processes

Applying process modelling 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

Enhancing business process diagrams

  • Selecting the appropriate gateway: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Aligning processes with swim lanes and pools
  • Augmenting the model with supporting artifacts

Assessing the Enterprise Structure

  • Defining the business domain
  • Documenting personnel and organizational units
  • Modelling systems, documents, information, and tools

Structuring the enterprise using UML class diagrams

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

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Ensuring comprehensive coverage using matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-checking requirements
  • Aligning behavior with roles

Contextualizing the model through perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Tracing from means to ends
  • Recording time parameters

Presenting the Model to Key Stakeholders

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

Requirements

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

Target Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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