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Course Outline

Introduction

  • The necessity of business models
  • Modelling capabilities

Establishing the Scope of Modelling

  • Definition of a business model
  • Distinguishing between textual and diagrammatic components
  • Contrasting scope with granularity

Developing a process to construct a business model

  • Implementing key steps: elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation
  • Iterative refinement of steps
  • Conducting requirements workshops
  • Aligning models with project deliverables

Addressing the multidimensional facets of a business model

  • Utilising the five Ws approach: who, what, where, when, why, and how
  • Selecting an appropriate modelling methodology
  • Using CASE tools and simulation

Mapping the Business Landscape

  • Assessing the enterprise
  • Investigating enterprise architecture
  • Breaking down architecture into constituent parts
  • 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

Commencing the process 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

  • Choosing the appropriate level of detail
  • Specifying preconditions and post-conditions
  • Modelling Business Processes

Applying process modelling techniques

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

Utilising Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Advantages of a standardised approach
  • Sequencing and categorising activities
  • Classifying events
  • Simulating a Business Process

Refining business process diagrams

  • Selecting appropriate gateways: decisions, forks, and joins
  • Mapping processes to swim lanes and pools
  • Enhancing the model with supplementary artefacts

Analysing the Enterprise Structure

  • Establishing the business domain
  • Documenting personnel and organisational units
  • Modelling systems, documents, information, and tools

Structuring the enterprise using UML class diagrams

  • Determining object attributes
  • Generalising and specialising relationships
  • Constructing associations between classes
  • Grouping elements into domains and functional units

Finalising the Business Model

  • Achieving comprehensive coverage through matrices
  • Prioritising features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Aligning behaviour with roles

Contextualising the model through various perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping means to ends
  • Capturing time-related 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 and delivery of models

Requirements

Foundational knowledge of Windows operating systems; familiarity with object-oriented (OO) technology is advantageous.

Audience:

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

 21 Hours

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