Hi David,
Kickstart the business process improvement / modeling effort using SWOT
analysis. Develop a Line of Business (LoB) strategy (sometime called a
Program Charter). You want to capitialize on the reusable assets projects
within the LoB can share and co-evolve. We are in a recession after all.
Start describing light-weight business use cases - main success scenarios
and some extensions. After describing the hows and whys of UML Activity
Diagrams to your business process engineering team (if they already don't
know), have *them* translate the business use cases into Business Workflow
diagrams. They now own this model. Also explain Activity-Based Costing to
then and have them compare business workflow scenarios.
Using JAD sessions, analyse each activity in the business workflow. Consider
if it requires or could benefit from IT support. If so, underlilne it.
Underlined activities become the name of system use cases. Describe your
system use cases. This way you have clear and simple traceability between
the business and the system requirements.
After that focus on describing a component specification archtecture. I have
found the ideas from UML Components and Business Component Factory to be
most valuable here.
Provision, assemble, test and deploy.
Richard Howlett
Process Engineer, Component-Based Development
Phone: (613) 954-7743 (Ottawa)
(514) 482-6438 (Montreal)
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>From: "Lyalin, David S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Lyalin, David S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>CC: "Lyalin, David S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: (ROSE) Business modeling with UML - success stories
>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:32:53 -0500
>
>
>I am posting this message again - for some reason it did not appeared on
>the
>forum after I posted it initially on 12/5.
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>I am looking for the examples - success stories on the subject of Business
>Modeling with UML.
>How companies that implemented this approach were able to streamline /
>improve the
>business operations and develop good IT systems via business modeling.
>
>Unfortunately, there are no real life examples in the book "Business
>Modeling with UML".
>The book is dedicated to modeling techniques and patterns. It has a chapter
>dedicated to
>the specific business modeling example for fictitious company "Bob's Mail
>Order".
>Same for the book "Enterprise Modeling with UML".
>The book - "Reengineering the Corporation" - has many examples, but all of
>them (except one) are merely story telling, without any kind of diagrams.
>It
>is
>more like "inspirational" book for processes reengineering, than book on
>business modeling techniques.
>
>The "success stories" that I was able to locate on the web are oriented on
>CASE tools and software
>development process rather than on technology neutral business modeling
>examples.
>
>If you know some good references - please let me know.
>
>Thank you.
>
>David Lyalin
>
>
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