May 282014
 
Business Architecture: The Foundation for Business Process Management and Business Analysis

There is a clear convergence coming among a variety of well-established business and IT disciplines. Some Enterprise Architects have realized that IT centric EA is doomed without appropriate business direction driving the vision. Business Process Management professionals have been consistently moving the BPM practice to enterprise wide business process architectures for the sustainable management and […]

May 272014
 
The Value of SysML Modelling During System Operations: A Case Study

Research conducted by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) and California Institute of Technology, demonstrates the use of SysML in modelling the Ground Data System (GDS) for the Dawn spacecraft. The case study briefly discusses the advantages of a SysML model over an MS Excel® spreadsheet and also mentions how a similar GDS model could be […]

May 262014
 
Anti-Pattern #5: Avoid Poor Diagram Layout

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 #5: Poor Diagram Layout Last, but not least, in practice there are many issues with business process diagram layout. You can […]

May 132014
 
Why Modeling Book Authors Use MagicDraw As Their Primary Selection

Interview and Survey of the Most Reputable Book Authors. MagicDraw is a business process, architecture, software and systems modeling tool. It is one of the most popular UML and SysML tools in the market. It has been available since 1998 and has over 500,000 installations in 10,000 companies in 90 countries. More and more books, […]

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 072014
 
Controlling Which Custom Properties are Displayed on Element Shape

You can choose which custom properties are shown on an element shape via the “Edit Compartment” dialog. Perhaps you may wonder if there is a way to set the specific tag values to always display for a particular (stereotyped) element type by default. An example of such a case is with a requirements element which […]

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 […]