BPwin. Methods Guide

Methods Guide......Page 1
Contents......Page 3
Intended Audience......Page 7
Activity and Process Models......Page 8
Activity Modeling Techniques......Page 10
Structured Analysis and Design......Page 11
Activity Modeling and Business Systems Engineering......Page 12
Overview of IDEF3......Page 15
Diagram......Page 16
Unit of Work (UOW)/Activity......Page 17
Links......Page 18
Junctions......Page 22
Referents......Page 29
Activity Decomposition......Page 30
Defining Activities and Objects......Page 31
Activity, Junction, and Object Elaboration Documents......Page 32
Overview of IDEF0......Page 33
An IDEF0 Model......Page 34
Activities......Page 35
Boundary and Interface (Arrows)......Page 37
Tunnels......Page 46
Activities and Activations......Page 47
Creating IDEF3 Models to Illustrate IDEF0 Activations......Page 48
The Diagram......Page 49
The Author-Reader Cycle......Page 51
Building a Model......Page 52
Scope......Page 53
Defining the Major ICOMs......Page 54
Relationship of Diagram to Parent Activity (Boundary and Hierarchy)......Page 56
Knowing When to Stop......Page 57
Other IDEF0 Diagrams......Page 58
Overview......Page 61
DFD Model Syntax and Semantics......Page 62
External Entities......Page 63
Data Store......Page 64
Branching and Joining......Page 65
Building a DFD......Page 66
Object Numbering......Page 67
Activity-Based Costing......Page 69
An Activity-Based Cost Model......Page 70
Simulation......Page 72
Facilities......Page 73
Simulation Example......Page 74
Managing Simulation Experiments......Page 82
Entities and Attributes......Page 83
Relationships......Page 84
Cardinality......Page 85
Identifying and Non-Identifying Relationships......Page 86
Optional Relationships......Page 87
Categories......Page 88
Arrow Rules......Page 89
Entity and Attribute Rules......Page 90
The Integration Process......Page 93
Glossary......Page 95
Index......Page 101