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Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modeling competencies

Defining the Scope of Modeling

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

Developing a process for business model creation

  • Executing steps: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterative refinement of steps
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Exploring the multidimensional facets of a business model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Enterprise analysis
  • Examining enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent elements
  • Application of the Component Business Model

Implementing business rules

  • Recording constraints: operational and structural
  • Illustrating rules via 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 scope and boundaries
  • Recognizing actors
  • Refining use cases

Documenting business use cases

  • Choosing the suitable level of detail
  • Specifying pre- and post-conditions
  • Representing Business Processes

Applying process modeling techniques

  • Workflows
  • Events
  • Activities
  • Decisions
  • Sequencing
  • Messaging
  • Roles

Utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardized methodology
  • Ordering and categorizing activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Enhancing business process diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, splits, and merges
  • Aligning processes with swimlanes and pools
  • Augmenting the model with artifacts

Evaluating Enterprise Structure

  • Establishing the business domain
  • Documenting personnel and organizational units
  • Representing systems, documents, information, and tools

Organizing the enterprise using UML class diagrams

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

Completing the Business Model

  • Ensuring full coverage through matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Linking behavior to roles

Providing context via model perspectives

  • Recording business interfaces
  • Mapping means to objectives
  • Capturing temporal parameters

Conveying the Model to Key Stakeholders

  • Understanding the audience
  • Selecting the appropriate level of detail
  • Choosing the optimal model for the audience
  • Translating business models into user requirements
  • Presentation of models

Requirements

Foundational familiarity with the Windows operating system and Object-Oriented technology concepts is beneficial.

Intended Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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