How to Develop and Use UML Models for Business Analysis

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is emerging as a new standard for structuring the communication between the world of IT and business. Because it is a new language in every sense of the word, parties from both worlds have to learn how to use it to communicate more effectively. This interactive workshop presents techniques for using this new language to define business problems, extrapolate business needs, and document the business requirements for a technological solution.

You will learn how to create use case diagrams, class and object models, state diagrams and other models that both the subject matter experts and the information system professionals can understand and interpret the same way.

Define the evolving role of today’s business systems analysts
Use business event models to initiate and scope an IT project
Present the transition from business events to use cases
Document proposed user interaction in use cases and use case diagrams
Differentiate between business and system use cases
Create class and object diagrams of the business system entities
Model critical business system components and their interaction
Create and analyze activity and state diagrams
List rules for selecting the best UML models for your project
Identify 18 specific business requirement categories and map them to the UML models