Business modeling

	Intro \| Table of Contents \| Overview Map
	Spiraplex business modeling
	Steve King sking@vivoworks.com

2. Business entities

2.2 Card sorting and sticky notes

2.3 Entity relationships

2.4 Entities as persona and profile maps

3.1 Process dependencies

3.2 Process Modeling

3.3 Entity/Process Matrix

4.1 Use cases unite entities and processes

4.2 Use cases - top down and bottom up

5. Risk and value maps

5.1 Financial value tree

5.2 Corporate value tree

5.3 Customer value tree

5.4 Risk/threat modeling

5.5 Root cause map

5.6 Fishbones and fault-trees

6. Models for problem solving

6.1 House of Quality (HOQ)

6.2 TRIZ Matrix

6.3 Decision flow

7. ==== OTHER SECTIONS ====

8. Ontologies for planning & development

9. Software development modeling

Overview

Visual models can capture business goals, entities and processes at a
high level in the early phases of a software development or business planning project.

Business modeling vs IT modeling:

Whether its done with UML, BPL or some other modeling discipline...
Use cases are the sweet spot!