Business Process Modeling with PowerDesigner 15

Goals

• Design, Create, and Edit a Business Process Model
• Define and Use Business Rules in a Business Process Model
• Decompose a Business Process
• Convert a Business Process Diagram to a Composite Process
• Check and Verify a Model
• Print and Report on Business Process Models
• Link Business Process Models to other Models, including Requirements Models, Physical Data Models, and Object Oriented Models
• Check Models in and out of the Repository

Audience

• Business Analysts, Business Modelers, Business Area Experts, Data Analysts

Prerequisites

• * Experience using Microsoft Windows or another graphical user interface * Exposure to basic business process modeling concepts * Exposure to flow charting or process modeling techniques, entity relationship (ER) modeling.

Content

• Introduction to PowerDesigner and Process Modeling
• • PowerDesigner Overview
  • PowerDesigner Model Types
  • Business Process Modeling Overview
  • Business Process Methodologies
• PowerDesigner Basics
• • The PowerDesigner Interface
  • Working with PowerDesigner Packages
  • The PD Modeling Environment
  • Working with Business Process Models
• Building a Business Process Model
• • Working with Process Languages
  • Defining Business Processes
  • Decomposing Business Processes
  • Managing BPM Business Rules
• Adding detail to BPMo Defining Organization Units
• • Creating Resources and Resource Flows
  • Define Message Formats
  • Manage Starts, Ends and Flows
• Managing Diagrams, Dependency Matrices and Packages
• • Creating Diagrams
  • Setting Display Preferences
  • Working with Composite Processes
  • Defining Packages
  • Managing Shortcuts
• Reporting in PowerDesigner
• • Printing Graphics
  • Working with Report Editors and Templates
  • Managing Multi-model Reports and Report Sections
  • Using the Report Wizard
• Cross Model Relationships
• • Relationships between Business Process Models
  • Creating Cross Model References
  • Impact Analysis Models
  • Using the Requirements Model
• Managing Models
• • Checking Models
  • Merging Models
  • Using the Repository

Notes

• Learn to use PowerDesigner to perform Business Process Modeling. Understand why business processing is critical today. Use PowerDesigner 15.0 to create business process models, including models of composite and underlying processes.
• Explore the model checking features of PowerDesigner to validate the integrity of your model. Manage shortcuts and cross model dependencies, as well as create reports from your models and integrate Business Process Modeling with the other model types in PowerDesigner. You will also learn how to use the Repository feature to version control your models.

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