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UML® Modeling for

Business Architecture

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Professional Development Days

20 Sep 2017

About APG

� APG’s mission is to

“Align information technology and systems engineering capabilities with business strategy using proven, practical

processes delivering world-class results.”

� Industry thought leader in enterprise architecture, business modeling, process improvement, systems and software engineering, requirements management, and agile methods

� Member and contributor to

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Professional Development Days 2017 – UML® Modeling for Business Architecture


� Member and contributor to� UML, SysML®, SPEM, UPDM™/UAF, BAMM at OMG®

� TOGAF, ArchiMate®, IT4IT™ at The Open Group

� UML Profile and Metamodel teams at Business Architecture Guild

� Business partners with Sparx, HP, and IBM

� Open Group Accredited Training Provider, Guild Accredited Training Partner™, IIBA® Endorsed Education Provider (EEP™)

How is Modeling Different from Picture Drawing?

� Models are more rich than pictures� Drawings are representations of models, but are not the model

itself

� In a model, just because you don’t seem something on a diagram, does not mean that it isn’t in the model

� Models enable rendering content in multiple forms, dependent on audience

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dependent on audience� Graphical diagrams

� Tabular reports

� Traceability matrices

� Dashboards and charts

� Models enable empirical analysis and reporting� Data analytics and business intelligence

What is Architecture?

� “All architecture is design, but not all design is architecture”� Can think of architecture as the “design-of-the-design”

� Informs people doing detailed design (precursor to implementation) on what it means to create a “good” design

� Business analysis is often more concerned with the design/implementation of the business (and supporting IT assets)

� Obvious alignment opportunity between Business Architecture

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� Obvious alignment opportunity between Business Architecture and Business Analysis� Business Architecture should inform the Business Analyst how to do

“good” business/system analysis and design

� Namely by exploiting the terminology and models of the business architecture

� The “goodness” of a business architecture is measured by how effectively and efficiently the business responds to business changes

BIZBOK® Business Architecture Framework5

Business Architecture Knowledgebase



� Blueprints provide views into knowledgebase, based on stakeholder concerns

� Scenarios contextualize expected outcomes of business architecture work

� Also inform initial selections of key stakeholders and likely concerns

BIZBOK Guide 6.0

Business Architecture vs. Design/Operations

Architecture Design

Value Stream Business Process

Capability Business Function

Information Concept Data Element

Organization Location

Strategy Tactic

Policy Business Rule

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Policy Business Rule

Initiative Project

Stakeholder Role

� Architecture is generally supposed to be implementation independent

� Architecture generally describes “what” and “why”

� Design describes “how”, “by whom”, and “where”

Architecture Description Standard7


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UML® Profile for BIZBOK® Guide – Value Proposition

� Uplift professionalism of practitioners� Transition from office productivity tools to formal modeling solutions

� Increase adoption of BIZBOK-based modeling� Diminish requirement of end-users to create one-off custom solutions

� Provide foundation for end-user customization� Enable end-users to add custom properties and additional types of

elements, relationships, and diagrams

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elements, relationships, and diagrams

� Allow integration of Business Architecture models with other models� Enterprise architecture (TOGAF, ArchiMate, UPDM/UAF)

� Business process (BPMN)

� Systems engineering (SysML)

� Solution delivery (UML)

Official Guild Team Site9



Team Members

• APG

• AIMCo

• FedEx

• Guild Metamodel

• OMG BAMM RFP

Organization – Diagram Types10



Organization – Decomposition Diagram11



Organization – Nesting Diagram12

APG

Executive Management

Sales and Marketing Business Operations Professional Education Professional Services Research and

Development

Sales

Marketing

Contractor

Management

Finance

Certification

Training

Technical Training

Enterprise

Architecture

Services

Solution Delivery

Services

Academic Outreach

Standards

Development

Open the matrix profile 'Organization Operates In Location'



IT Operations

Human Resources

Legal

Event Management

Tool Training Systems

Engineering

Services

Tool

Implementation

Services

Curriculum

Development

Tool Development

Location Hosts Organization Matrix13



Capability Mapping – Diagram Types14



Capability – Relationships 15



Capability Map – Decomposition16



Capability Map – Auto-Generated Nesting17



Business Unit – Capability Matrix18



Capability Dashboard19



Capability-Based Analysis20



Value Mapping – Diagram Types21



Value Map – Example22



Value Stream Specification23



Value Stream Stage Enabled By Capability Mapping24



Value Stream Stage Enabled By Capability Matrix25



Register for Training

Session

Understand Training

Requirements

Arrange Training

Logistics

Deliver Training

Session

Close Training

Session

Proposal

Management

Client

Management

Facility

Management

Event Management

Event Registration

Event Management

Event Management

Event Delivery Accounts Payable

Accounts

Receivable

Alternate Value Stream-Capability Mapping26



Service Sales

Management

Quote

Management

Management

Instructor

Management

Event Preparation

Receivable

Attendee

Management

Event Management

Organization Responsible for Value Stream Stage27



Information Map – Diagram Types28



Information Map – Example 29



Information-Capability Mapping30



Information Lifecycle – Training Event31



Value Stream – Entry/Exit Criteria32



Conclusions

� UML Profile for BIZBOK should increase level of adoption of formal modeling in Business Architecture� Build a modeling capability is an important step in formalizing business

architecture

� Ability to do this in existing, commercially available tools should be helpful

� Modeling your business architecture is critical for delivering:� Enterprise Business Intelligence

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� Enterprise Business Intelligence

� Complete Business Digitization

� Have released second beta version focusing on core, foundational domains� Capability, Value, Information, Organization

� Plan to release complete version by end of 2017

� Looking for end-users to test work-in-progress� Also looking for people to help contribute to development

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