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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Essential modeling capabilities

Defining the Scope of Modeling

  • Understanding the concept of a business model 
  • Differentiating textual and diagrammatic components
  • Distinguishing scope from the level of detail

Crafting a process to develop a business model

  • Implementing key steps: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterating through the process steps
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with deliverables

Charting the multidimensional aspects of a business model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

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

Applying business rules

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

Initiating the process with functional decomposition

  • Establishing functional hierarchies
  • Differentiating between functions and processes 

Drawing UML use case diagrams

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

Documenting business use cases

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

Applying process modeling techniques

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

Leveraging Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

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

Refining 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 
  • Recording workers and organizational units
  • Modeling systems, documents, information, and tools

Structuring the enterprise with UML class diagrams

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

Finalizing the Business Model

  • Achieving comprehensive coverage using matrices
  • Prioritizing features
  • Interlinking requirements
  • Aligning behavior with roles

Contextualizing the model with perspectives

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

Communicating 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
  • Presentation of models

Requirements

Familiarity with basic Windows operating systems is required, while knowledge of OO technology can be beneficial.

Target Audience:

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

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