Modelling Flashcards
6 perspectives for modelling
- What
- When
- Where
- How
- Who
- Why
Why uses modelling?
- Improve visability
- Create transparency
- Generate questions
- Define business rules
- Check completeness
- Cross-check consistency
Lean Canvas
Main focus: Stakeholders, Goal
Consideration of big picture of a business or business area
Business Domain Model
Class diagram
Main focus: Data, business rules
Classes - groupings of data
Associations - relationships between groups of data
Multiplicities - how many items in each class may be associated with items in another class. Describes how system behaves.
Business Process Flow Model
Swim Lanes
Main focus: Process, locations, Actors
BPMN / UML
Context (scoping) diagram model
Main focus: Scope of study or change
High level data flow diagram
Customer jouney mapping model
Main focus: Events
Proposed service / product from customers perspective
Impact Mapping model
Main focus: benefit, goal
Aligning project to strategic goals
Rich picture model
Main focus: Any
Communicate not only objective information but also softer information - relationships and conflicts
Personas modelling
Main focus: people
Product vision box modelling
Main focus: whole product
Creates a shared vision of objectives and expected outcomes of project between key stakeholders
Specification by example modelling
Main focus: User interface
* Specifying collaborately
* Illustrating using examples
* Validating the system frequently
* Evolving living documentation
Facilitating the process of arriving at a solution
Storyboards / Wireframes modelling
Main focus: User interface / events
Presentation storyboards - frame by frame presentation of each step
Solution storyboards - More detail view of the solution being developed -wireframe diagrams
Use case modelling
Main focus: actors, process
Diagram - High level. Stick people, Oval, Assocaitions lines, a bounding box
Use case - more detailed information - Event, user goal, pre-conditions, post conditions, description, alternate flows, exceptions
Value chain mapping modelling
Main focus: Process improvement
Examines the flow from organisation activity from the supplier to the customer
Highlights processes that do not add value, where they represent waste or should be removed or redesigned.
