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