Business Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work |
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| Magnus Penker, Hans-Erik Eriksson |
| January 2000, John Wiley & Sons, Hardcover, 416 pages, ISBN 0471295515
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From the authors of UML Toolkit comes a nuts-and-bolts guide for applying
UML's vast capabilities to business systems.
To perform effective business modeling and develop a successful information
system, you need a reliable modeling language that allows you to establish
the necessary components and satisfy all of management's concerns. You
need UML. With its eagerly anticipated new set of business extensions
and techniques, UML is the premiere language for both traditional business
modeling and the later stages of analysis and design. Finally, only one
modeling language is needed for every phase of project development.
This invaluable book, the first of its kind, provides in-depth guidance
on business modeling as well as discussions of how patterns, business
objects, business rules, CORBA, COM, and Java all fit in to help improve
every stage of object-oriented software development.
UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a drawing tool to create "blueprints"
for object-oriented systems. It has been officially adopted by the OMG.
Think of UML as the AutoCAD of the computer industry. Where AutoCAD is
used to create architectural blueprints for buildings, UML is used to
diagram blueprints of object-oriented computer systems. Business Modeling
is the first phase of software development with UML, in which business
concerns are clearly outlined so that an information system with the appropriate
Business Objects may be developed.
Topics covered: Business modeling basics, UML notation and Erickson-Penker
Business Extensions, class diagrams and powertypes, object diagrams, statecharts,
activity diagrams and swimlanes, sequence and collaboration diagrams,
collaboration and use case diagrams, component and deployment diagrams,
stereotypes, business architectures, business processes, resources, goals,
business rules, Object Constraint Language (OCL) and collections, business
views and patterns, business goal allocation, business goal decomposition,
business goal-problem, and software architectures
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Business Modeling
The Role of Models
UML
Business Process Modeling
Understanding the Business
Information System Support
Improvement
Innovation
Design New Processes
Outsourcing
Business Modeling with UML
Summary
Chapter 2 UML Primer
UML Basics
Unified Modeling Language
Class Diagram
Object Diagram
Statechart Diagram
Activity Diagram
Sequence Diagram
Collaboration Diagram
Use-Case Diagram
Component Diagram
Deployment Diagram
Extending UML
Stereotypes
Tagged Values
Constraints
Summary
Chapter 3 Modeling the Business Architecture
Architecting a Business
Good Architecture
Business Concepts
Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions
Business Processes
Resources
Goals
Business Rules
Relationships
General Mechanisms
Summary
Chapter 4 Business Views
Four Common Business Views
Business Vision View
Business Process View
Business Structure View
Business Behavior View
Summary
Chapter 5 Business Rules
Business Rule Syntax
Rules in UML
Object Constraint Language
Using OCL in Models
OCL Expressions
Navigation
Collections
Business Rules Categories
Derivations
Constraints
Existence
Fuzzy Business Rules
Summary
Chapter 6 Business Patterns
Types of Patterns
How Business Patterns Are Used
Pattern Categories
Pattern Form
The Patterns in This Book
Resource and Rule Patterns
Goal Patterns
Process Patterns
The Business Patterns Template
Name
Intent
Motivation
Applicability
Structure
Participants
Consequences
Example
Related Patterns
Source/Credit
Patterns in UML
Other Work in Patterns
Summary
Chapter 7 Resource and Rule Patterns
Actor-Role Pattern
Business Definitions Pattern
Business Event-Result History Pattern
Contract Pattern
Core-Representation Pattern
Document Pattern
Employment Pattern
Geographic Location Pattern
Organization and Party Pattern
Product Data Management Pattern
Thing-Information Pattern
Title-Item Pattern
Type-Object-Value Pattern
Summary
Chapter 8 Goal Patterns
Business Goal Alloction Pattern
Business Goal Decomposition Pattern
Business Goal-Problem Pattern
Summary
Chapter 9 Process Patterns
Basic Process Structure Pattern
Process Interaction Pattern
Process Feedback Pattern
Time-To-Customer Pattern
Process Layer Supply Pattern
Process Layer Control Pattern
Action Workflow Pattern
Process-Process Instance Pattern
Resource Use Pattern
Process Instance State Pattern
Summary
Chapter 10 From Business Architecture to Software Architecture
Software Development Process
What Is Software Architecture?
Myths about Software Architectures
Designing a Good Architecture
Modeling the Software Architecture
Software Architectural Views
Using the Business Architecture to Define the Software Architecture
Identify the Information Systems
Find Functional Requirements
Find Nonfunctional Requirements
Act as Basis for Analysis and Design
Identify Suitable Components
Summary
Chapter 11 A Business Model Example
Bob's Mail Order
Visions and Goals
Goal Model
Conceptual Model
Business Processes
Resources and Organization
Resource Modeling
Organizational Modeling
Process Decomposition
Support Systems
System Requirements
System Requirement Specification
Summary
Appendix A Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions
Views
Diagrams and Models
Stereotypes and Constraints
Tagged Values
Appendix B Business Patterns Summary
Resource and Rules Patterns
Goal Patterns
Process Patterns
Glossary
References
Index
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Following up on their bestselling book, UML Toolkit, Hans-Erik
Eriksson and Magnus Penker now provide expert guidance on how to use UML
to model your business systems. In this informative book, key business
modeling concepts are presented, including how to define Business Rules
with UML's Object Constraint Language (OCL) and how to use business models
with use cases. The authors then provide 26 valuable Business Patterns
along with an e-business case study that utilizes the techniques and patterns
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Amazon.com
Until now, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been primarily used
to design software, but should you use it to model your entire
business as well? That's the intriguing argument of Business Modeling
with UML, a text that combines leading-edge enhancements to UML with
some solid thinking about business. Written for any manager with some
technical background, this book looks at the possibilities of UML used
to model entire organizations.
The book makes a strong case for the advantages of modeling businesses
in UML. With models, an organization can provide better software, define
and implement new goals, and even decide whether to outsource certain
operations. The Erickson-Penker Business Extensions for UML, invented
by the authors and presented within the text, permit UML to document the
entire business enterprise. This book shows how to model businesses,
from business architecture to processes, business rules, and goals. Short
case studies--for Web-centric and more traditional companies--are used
to illustrate key concepts here.
Later sections of the book will perhaps take a little more background
in software engineering to appreciate fully as the book presents a handful
of business patterns, which offer reusable solutions to common
problems (just like software patterns). The authors also look at how to
leverage a business model to create better software.
In engineering, a new car is modeled and thoroughly tested on a computer
before any physical prototype is ever built. As the authors point out,
a business that has accurate models can test out new ideas cheaply and
then adapt to changing market conditions quickly. This title makes a case
that UML--a tool traditionally used by software developers--is ready to
tackle the job. Read this notably informative and intelligent book to
see the possible benefits of business modeling in UML for your organization.
--Richard Dragan
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