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Chapters & Strategies |
Topics |
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Introduction |
- Project contents - what to expect from the project
- Project format - theory and practice, timing
- Corporate case study setup, rules and outcome
- Building the case study as we move through the week
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| 1 |
Executive Summary
Basing the BPM Process on Object Technologies
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- Business process modeling powered by OO
- Key tools used for OOBPM
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| 1 |
Business Process Modeling (BPM) Example-IBM
Getting the overview through an historical BPM Example
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- IBM credit issuance - original process
- Formal BPM of the original process
- Case trials and errors
- Business concept model
- Business process map
- Practical conclusions
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| 1 |
Object-Oriented Technology and Business Process Modeling
A Human-Concept Based Technology
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- Why objects are so powerful
- Why objects fit the business analyst's mind
- The OOBPM process, using the UML
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| 1 |
OOBPM Key Steps and Deliverables
The best tool for each angle
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- Cycle overview
- Business synopsis
- Glossary of terms
- Strengths and weaknesses list
- Goal statement
- Use case analysis
- Original (as-is) business process maps
- Business process description (narrative)
- Business concept model (class diagram)
- Business concept description (narrative)
- Improved (to-be) business process maps
- Impact of the OO information system on the new maps
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| 1 |
Deliverables Management
Combining formal methodology, adaptability and group dynamics
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- Logical sequence
- The strength found in each tool
- Flexibility: iteration and navigation
- How to approach and iteratively build the big picture
- A place for each detail
- Version management
- Interviews, group meetings and dynamics
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| 1 |
Formal Business Process Mapping
A Modern Tool to Formally Model Sophisticated Business Processes
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- A tool to precisely describe real-life business processes
- Processes/activities, flow, control, actors, concurrency
- Exceptions, alternate paths, prerequisites, branching
- Broadcasting, messaging, compound activities
- Packaged activities and sub-processes
- BPM example: the Ford procurement process workshop
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| 1 |
Use Case Analysis
Identifying and Specifying Main Actors and Their Interaction with the system
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- Notation overview
- Formal notation syntax and semantics
- Typical examples
- Formal specification for interactions
- Business case study
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| 1 |
Business Concept Modeling
Identifying and Modeling Driving Concepts and their Relationships with UML Class and Object Diagrams (static modeling)
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- Introduction
- Problem Statement
- Glossary of Terms
- Use Case Analysis
- Identifying the main concepts from the above
- Modeling business concepts with UML object modeling
- Formal notation syntax and semantics
- UML Classes, objects and their relationships
- Inheritance, Aggregation, Associations
- Associations Classes, Ternary Associations
- Other UML features
- Business Object Sequence and Collaboration
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| 1 |
The Personal Accounting System (PAS) Case Study
Fundamental Features of UML Object Analysis
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- Overview of the case study
- Use case analysis
- Key concepts modeling
- Overall PAS problem domain modeling
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| 2 |
The Brokerage Model Case Study
Detailed Business Concept Analysis Exercise
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- Introduction
- Use case analysis
- Individual analysis
- Team analysis, design, and presentations
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| 3 |
The Employee Model
Professional modeling: complex requirements, elegant object solutions
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- Introduction
- Use case analysis
- Individual and group design and presentations
- solution and discussions
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| 3 |
Object Programming (Optional)
Implementing fundamental UML features with an OO Language like Java
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- Classes code
- Inheritance code
- Polymorphism code
- Membership code
- Object References
- Access Control
- Binary and Ternary Associations code
- Multiplicity code
- Aggregation code
- Roles code
- Association Classes code
- Delegation code
- Code for other features
- OO Programming Strategies
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| 4 |
From Object to Relational
How to implement OO features in relational environments
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- Conversion strategies for all aspects of object modeling
- Employee model conversion case study
- Individual and group design
- Solution walkthrough
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| 4 |
Business Analysis Patterns (Advanced)
Advanced Problem Solving: applying typical solutions to typical business problems by reusing powerful OO Patterns
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- OO Patterns to solve Business Concept Analysis
- The Role Pattern
- The Composite Pattern
- The Configuration Pattern
- The Person Index Pattern
- The Scheduling Pattern
- Understanding, reating and selecting OO Patterns
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| 4 |
Real-life OO BPM Cases
A survey of what is being done in today's Corporate America
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- The Water and Sewage Billing and Management process
- Retail industry: The Inventory Model
- Retail industry: The Store Workstation Model
- Retail industry: The Purchase Order Model
- Lessons learned, generalization and strategy
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Corporate Case Study
Applying OOBPM to one of your own Business Processes
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- Process selection
- Business synopsis
- Glossary of terms
- Strengths and weaknesses list
- Goal statement
- Use case analysis
- Original (as-is) business process map
- Business process description (narrative)
- Business concept model (class diagram)
- Business concept description (narrative)
- Improved (to-be) business process maps
- Impact of the OO information system on the new maps
- How to take it from there
- Expectations
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