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Business modeling

Abstract

This chapter shows how business use cases may be used to produce a high-level view of an organization by being detailed with Business Process Modeling and Notation that describes key business processes and state machine diagrams that describe key business objects. It also shows how the team may discover new business use cases by examining those diagrams.

Keywords

Business modeling; BPMN diagram; and state machine diagram

Key topics in this chapter

  • • BPMN—Business Process Modeling and Notation
  • • State Machine Diagram

3.1 Introduction to business modeling

In the beginning of the analysis process, the team must understand not only what is going to be developed but also the environment where this system is going to work. For example, ...

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