45 Business Modeling Using the Unified Modeling Language

Charles Richter, Objective Engineering, Inc.

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While the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is most often described as an object-oriented analysis and design notation, it also provides excellent features for business modeling. The use of a common notation such as UML for both the business model and the application design can promote synergy between the business and development views of the system. This tutorial uses a case study to illustrate how UML can be applied to describe both conceptual business models and the business processes that act on those models.

Attendees will gain an appreciation of how conceptual models can be cast as class diagrams, as well as how UML's use case and activity diagrams can describe business processes and workflows.

Attendee Background: This tutorial is aimed at business analysts and others interested in developing models of conceptual "business objects" and business processes. No knowledge of object-oriented concepts, conceptual modeling, or business process modeling is required.

Charles Richter has been involved in object-oriented development for over ten years, and has been teaching object-oriented methods for most of that time. He has considerable development and teaching experience with OMT, Booch, and more recently UML. He is the founder and a principal of Objective Engineering, Inc., a company dedicated to providing quality training and consulting in object-oriented analysis and design methods and Java programming.