May 082014
 
5 Ways to Make BPMN Model Efficient: #4 Avoid Inconsistent Use of Events

  In this series of posts we will explore several cases presenting real-life business process examples representing common anti-patterns in business process modeling and demonstrating how to improve the examples by applying best practices. Anti-Pattern #4: Inconsistent Use of Events Events are fundamental elements in BPMN – each process begins with a start event, finishes […]

May 062014
 
5 Ways to Make BPMN Model Efficient: #3 Avoid Inconsistent Use of Gateways

  In this series of posts we will explore several cases presenting real-life business process examples representing common anti-patterns in business process modeling and demonstrating how to improve the examples by applying best practices. Anti-Pattern #3: Inconsistent Use of Gateways Gateways are very important as they control the branching of a business process sequence flow […]

Mar 262014
 
MBSE Courses and Book, Prepared and Adopted by French Academic Institutions

Two years ago, the French National Education decided to bring a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach to the schools with a focus on engineering and natural sciences. Each School (Fr. Lycee) chose their own solution to implement this approach. The Lycees based their choices on several criteria, including ease of use, and standard compliance […]

Mar 112014
 
5 Ways to Make BPMN Model Efficient: #2 Avoid Large Process Diagrams

… In this series of posts we will explore several cases presenting real-life business process examples representing common anti-patterns in business process modeling and demonstrating how to improve the examples by applying best practices. Anti-Pattern #2: Large Process Diagrams The second fundamental thing that needs to be reviewed is the complexity of process diagrams. While […]

Mar 062014
 
Manual MagicDraw and JIRA Integration

MagicDraw and Atlassian JIRA are popular products, which usually can be spotted in software collection of enterprise. So a natural and common question rises, how they can work together? In most cases JIRA serves as an issue tracking system with the ability to have custom workflows, approvals, states, etc. MagicDraw in most cases is used […]

Mar 042014
 
5 Ways to Make BPMN Model Efficient: #1 Avoid Inconsistent Naming

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is already acknowledged as a de facto standard for business process modeling. However, it still takes a long journey to increase the maturity of business process modeling practice. In practice most business analysts do a lot of mistakes that make their BPMN models over complex, difficult to understand and […]

Jan 062014
 
Automatic Web Publishing from Teamwork Server

The information dissemination and exchange for many our clients is very important and should be up-to-date. This is the reason why many of them are using Web publishing features and sharing Web based reports of their MagicDraw projects in the Intranet (i.e. within the organization), Extranet (between the organization and its business partners), or even […]

Dec 172013
 
Requirements Writing in SysML Guide

This document proposes structuring and styling rules that help writing requirements using the SysML language as well as specific MagicDraw capabilities that support this process. Prerequisites: basic MagicDraw knowledge; basic knowledge of the SysML language requirements part. The biggest issue users have when they start writing requirements using the SysML language is that there is […]