Business Modeling with UML Business Patterns at Work

by Eriksson, Hans-Erik; Penker, Magnus

• ISBN13: 9780471295518
• ISBN10: 0471295515
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-09
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

"An excellent hands-on book for practitioners eager to document the internal structure and everyday workings of business processes. This clear and practical book belongs on the shelf of everyone dedicated to mapping, maintaining, and streamlining business processes." -Richard Mark Soley, Phd, Chairman and CEO, OMG "Eriksson and Penker have not just written another patterns book; this is a significant contribution to the key field of business-IT alignment. While capturing profound academic insights, what makes the book so refreshing from a practitioner's viewpoint is the richness of accessible, down-to-earth examples and its pragmatic, unpretentious style."-Paul allen Principal of CBD Strategies and Architectures, Sterling Software "UML may have been designed by and for software engineers, but Eriksson and Penker have defined a practical extension to UML for describing business processes. They put this extended UML immediately to use with a gallery of common business patterns that should jump start any BPR effort."-Philippe Krchten, Director of Process Development Rational Software "This book is a marriage between proven business modeling concepts and the techniques of UML. It provides real-world strategies for developing large-scale, mission-critical business systems in a manner accessible to both software and business professionals."-ScottW. Ambler, Author of Process Patterns 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 discussed in the book. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

Author Biography

HANS-ERIK ERIKSSON (Sweden) is the founder and Chairman of Open Training, a company that specializes in advanced online learning and e-training solutions. He is a skilled trainer with more than ten years experience in object technology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiv
Introduction	xv
Business Modeling	1	(16)
The Role of Models	3	(2)
UML	5	(1)
Business Process Modeling	6	(8)
Understanding the Business	8	(1)
Information System Support	8	(3)
Improvement	11	(1)
Innovation	12	(1)
Design New Processes	13	(1)
Outsourcing	14	(1)
Business Modeling with UML	14	(2)
Summary	16	(1)
UML Primer	17	(42)
UML Basics	17	(1)
Unified Modeling Language	18	(35)
Class Diagram	19	(15)
Object Diagram	34	(1)
Statechart Diagram	35	(5)
Activity Diagram	40	(7)
Sequence Diagram	47	(1)
Collaboration Diagram	47	(4)
Use-Case Diagram	51	(2)
Component Diagram	53	(1)
Deployment Diagram	53	(1)
Extending UML	53	(4)
Stereotypes	54	(1)
Tagged Values	55	(1)
Constraints	56	(1)
Summary	57	(2)
Modeling the Business Architecture	59	(28)
Architecting a Business	60	(2)
Good Architecture	60	(2)
Business Concepts	62	(4)
Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions	66	(19)
Business Processes	68	(8)
Resources	76	(2)
Goals	78	(3)
Business Rules	81	(2)
Relationships	83	(2)
General Mechanisms	85	(1)
Summary	85	(2)
Business Views	87	(46)
Four Common Business Views	89	(41)
Business Vision View	90	(15)
Business Process View	105	(13)
Business Structure View	118	(5)
Business Behavior View	123	(7)
Summary	130	(3)
Business Rules	133	(36)
Business Rule Syntax	134	(3)
Rules in UML	136	(1)
Object Constraint Language	137	(16)
Using OCL in Models	138	(1)
OCL Expressions	139	(7)
Navigation	146	(2)
Collections	148	(5)
Business Rules Categories	153	(10)
Derivations	154	(5)
Constraints	159	(3)
Existence	162	(1)
Fuzzy Business Rules	163	(3)
Summary	166	(3)
Business Patterns	169	(18)
Types of Patterns	170	(2)
How Business Patterns Are Used	171	(1)
Pattern Categories	172	(1)
Pattern Form	173	(1)
The Patterns in This Book	174	(1)
Resource and Rule Patterns	174	(1)
Goal Patterns	175	(1)
Process Patterns	175	(1)
The Business Patterns Template	175	(8)
Name	176	(1)
Intent	176	(1)
Motivation	176	(3)
Applicability	179	(1)
Structure	179	(1)
Participants	180	(1)
Consequences	180	(1)
Example	181	(1)
Related Patterns	181	(1)
Source/Credit	181	(2)
Patterns in UML	183	(1)
Other Work in Patterns	184	(1)
Summary	185	(2)
Resource and Rule Patterns	187	(86)
Actor-Role Pattern	191	(8)
Business Definitions Pattern	199	(8)
Business Event-Result History Pattern	207	(8)
Contract Pattern	215	(4)
Core-Representation Pattern	219	(4)
Document Pattern	223	(6)
Employment Pattern	229	(6)
Geographic Location Pattern	235	(6)
Organization and Party Pattern	241	(6)
Product Data Management Pattern	247	(10)
Thing-Information Pattern	257	(4)
Title-Item Pattern	261	(6)
Type-Object-Value Pattern	267	(4)
Summary	271	(2)
Goal Patterns	273	(20)
Business Goal Alloction Pattern	277	(6)
Business Goal Decomposition Pattern	283	(6)
Business Goal-Problem Pattern	289	(3)
Summary	292	(1)
Process Patterns	293	(60)
Basic Process Structure Pattern	295	(4)
Process Interaction Pattern	299	(6)
Process Feedback Pattern	305	(4)
Time-To-Customer Pattern	309	(6)
Process Layer Supply Pattern	315	(8)
Process Layer Control Pattern	323	(6)
Action Workflow Pattern	329	(10)
Process-Process Instance Pattern	339	(2)
Resource Use Pattern	341	(6)
Process Instance State Pattern	347	(4)
Summary	351	(2)
From Business Architecture to Software Architecture	353	(34)
Software Development Process	354	(4)
What Is Software Architecture?	358	(5)
Myths about Software Architectures	360	(1)
Designing a Good Architecture	361	(2)
Modeling the Software Architecture	363	(5)
Software Architectural Views	364	(4)
Using the Business Architecture to Define the Software Architecture	368	(15)
Identify the Information Systems	371	(2)
Find Functional Requirements	373	(4)
Find Nonfunctional Requirements	377	(1)
Act as Basis for Analysis and Design	378	(3)
Identify Suitable Components	381	(2)
Summary	383	(4)
A Business Model Example	387	(32)
Bob's Mail Order	387	(1)
Visions and Goals	388	(4)
Goal Model	389	(2)
Conceptual Model	391	(1)
Business Processes	392	(2)
Resources and Organization	394	(9)
Resource Modeling	394	(4)
Organizational Modeling	398	(5)
Process Decomposition	403	(1)
Support Systems	403	(13)
System Requirements	408	(6)
System Requirement Specification	414	(2)
Summary	416	(3)
Appendix A Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions	419	(10)
Views	419	(1)
Diagrams and Models	420	(1)
Stereotypes and Constraints	421	(6)
Tagged Values	427	(2)
Appendix B Business Patterns Summary	429	(6)
Resource and Rules Patterns	429	(3)
Goal Patterns	432	(1)
Process Patterns	432	(3)
Glossary	435	(10)
References	445	(4)
Index	449