Workshop: Tweet"Modeling the Agile Enterprise: Integrating Business and IT"
This is an analysis and design workshop. Participants will learn acquire knowledge and experience that can be immediately applied to modeling dynamic complex systems like the modern business enterprise.
The primary demands of business, today, is the ability to quickly innovate and adapt to constantly changing circumstances - the enterprise must be Agile. If IT is to support rather than inhibit the enterprise, it not only needs to be Agile but it must be deeply integrated with the business. This requires a new way of thinking, decomposing, analyzing and modeling the enterprise and IT systems.
The workshop will be divided into four sessions, each with a short break. Each topic in each session will include a team exercise, and each session will end with a team exercise.
Session One: FoundationsA. Systems
B. Decomposing Complex Systems with Objects
C. Everything is an Object
D. Team Exercise: Modeling Systems (either a commercial lines insurance company or a hospital intensive care unit)
Session Two: Modeling Objects
A. Tangible Objects, e.g. Forms
B. Intangible Objects, e.g. Transactions
C. Modeling Relationships
D. Team Exercise - modeling a complex domain
Session Three: Design
A. Making changes
B. Understanding options
C. Scenarios - Business and Design
D. Team Exercise: Scenarios for improvement - system modeled in Session One.
Session Four: IT Specification
A. From Scenarios to User Stories
B. From User Stories to Acceptance Tests
C. Software Objects
D. Team Exercise: Specifying and implementing a scenario
