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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modeling capabilities

Establishing Modeling Boundaries

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

Developing a Process for Business Model Creation

  • Implementing key phases: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterative application of these phases
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with specific deliverables

Addressing Multidimensional Aspects of Business Models

  • Utilizing the five Ws framework: who, what, where, when, why, and how
  • Selecting the appropriate modeling methodology
  • Incorporating CASE tools and simulation techniques

Mapping the Business Environment

  • Enterprise analysis
  • Investigating enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent components
  • Application of the Component Business Model

Implementing Business Rules

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

Initiating Processes via Functional Decomposition

  • Identifying functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes

Creating UML Use Case Diagrams

  • Defining scope and system boundaries
  • Identifying actors
  • Refining use cases

Documenting Business Use Cases

  • Selecting the appropriate detail level
  • Defining preconditions and postconditions
  • Modeling Business Processes

Applying Process Modeling Techniques

  • Workflows
  • Events
  • Activities
  • Decision points
  • Sequencing
  • Messaging
  • Roles

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardized approach
  • Sequencing and categorizing activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining Business Process Diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Mapping processes to swimlanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with supporting artifacts

Analyzing Enterprise Structure

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

Structuring the Enterprise with UML Class Diagrams

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

Finalizing the Business Model

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

Contextualizing the Model Through Various Perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping means to ends
  • Capturing time-related 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 the models

Requirements

Familiarity with basic Windows operations is required; prior exposure to Object-Oriented (OO) technology concepts is advantageous.

Target Audience:

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

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