Business systems research and design


Services offered

Every month one day of work­shops for free, e.g. for your team: you pre­pare the talk­ing points and I con­duct the work­shops… ask about details.

At a glance

Are you in a com­pany plan­ning to start the imple­ment­a­tion of soft­ware? Do you need doc­u­ment­a­tion of your busi­ness needs and busi­ness logic, archi­tec­ture spe­cific­a­tion? Do you need soft­ware vendor super­vi­sion? My skills are:

  • ana­lys­ing domain fields of scope and design­ing the doc­u­ment-ori­ented data structure
  • ana­lys­ing busi­ness pro­cesses, busi­ness logic and design­ing soft­ware archi­tec­ture (using pat­terns e.g. Domain-Driv­en Design, microservices, web ser­vices in clouds, e.t.c., ) 
  • super­vising devel­op­ment teams

I have 30 years of exper­i­ence in the inform­a­tion sys­tems mar­ket, I have been design­ing and super­vising imple­ment­a­tions for 20 years, I have been research­ing inform­a­tion and sys­tems mod­el­ling for 15 years, am also an aca­dem­ic teach­ing exper­i­ence. I have been audit­ing organ­iz­a­tions and design­ing solu­tions for many years. I teach oth­ers how to do it effect­ively, I help teams of juni­or and seni­or ana­lysts and designers.

Typ­ic­al respons­ib­il­it­ies in projects:

  • Lead the require­ments gath­er­ing phase and the solu­tion design activ­ity (both busi­ness and func­tion­al analysis).
  • Sup­port the IT strategy and roadmap definition.
  • Elab­or­ate on the func­tion­al solu­tion, which includes the IT archi­tec­ture, IT func­tion­al logic, data mod­el­ling migra­tion approach and integ­ra­tion (inter­face) solutions.
  • Provide fur­ther sup­port in the imple­ment­a­tion, test­ing and deploy­ment activ­it­ies of con­cerned projects.
  • Determ­ine data migra­tion strategies and plays a key role in defin­ing the most optim­al solution.
  • Assist in the elab­or­a­tion of Request for Pro­pos­al doc­u­ments and in its evaluation

Typ­ic­al deliverables:

  • High-Level Assess­ments in order to provide high-level solu­tion design and invest­ments behind
  • Detailed End-To-End (E2E) solu­tion cov­er­ing IT/Network (includ­ing integ­ra­tion with oth­er sys­tems) and iden­ti­fied impacted E2E processes
  • Provided solu­tion designs to be agreed upon and approved with Product Own­ers as well as with oth­er busi­ness stakeholders
  • Writ­ten User-Stor­ies per deliv­ery blocks and fur­ther fol­low-up/sup­port to the imple­ment­a­tion team

Ques­tions and short gen­er­al con­sulta­tions on ana­lys­is and design meth­ods are free of charge!

Training in Scotland, theory and practice

Busi­ness Ana­lys­is and Object-Ori­ented Soft­ware Analis­is and Design. Stand­ard stages:

  1. Busi­ness Ana­lys­is and Work­flow Design Using BPMN and SBVR.
  2. Object-Ori­ented Ana­lys­is and Design Using UML.
  3. Mod­el­ling Know­ledge (vocab­u­lary and rules, ontology).
  4. Doc­u­ment-Ori­ented Sys­tem, NoSQL Data­base, Cloud Solutions.

Software analysis and design with UML

  • object-ori­ented paradigm definition
  • object, class and clas­si­fi­er: what the difference
  • abstract lay­ers defined by the MOF (Meta Object Facility)
  • Mod­el-Based Archi­tec­ture: CIM, PIM and PSM models
  • Uni­fied Mod­el­ing Lan­guage (UML, based on the ori­gin­al specification)
  • Mod­el View Con­trol­ler: the main archi­tec­ture pattern
  • How to mod­el an applic­a­tion: Use Case ori­ented methods
  • work­shop

Business process analysis and modeling with BPMN

  • Busi­ness Pro­cess Man­age­ment (BPM) – foundations
  • enter­prise as a system
  • busi­ness pro­cess-ori­ented organisation
  • Busi­ness Pro­cess Mod­el­ing Nota­tion – ana­lyt­ic­al mod­els vs. com­mon executable
  • Busi­ness Pro­cess Mod­el­ing Nota­tion – busi­ness pro­cess modelling
  • how to mod­el organ­iz­a­tion with BPMN: pro­cesses vs. procedures
  • oth­er tools: RACI, CRUD, Decision Tables, busi­ness rules (SBVR notation)
  • work­shop

How to design systems with Visual Paradigm: CASE system in use

Visu­al Paradigm is a CASE Tool sup­port­ing UML 2, SysML, SBVR, BPMN from the Object Man­age­ment Group. In addi­tion to mod­el­ling sup­port, it provides report gen­er­a­tion and code engin­eer­ing cap­ab­il­it­ies includ­ing code generation.

  • basic func­tions in the menu, how to nav­ig­ate and draw figures
  • how to organ­ise pro­ject repository
  • impact ana­lys­is and trace­ab­il­ity – mod­el control
  • gen­er­a­tion of doc­u­ments – style and keywords
  • work­shop

You can design per­son­al agenda for your team, 1000 GBP/day/class group (in your premise, ask about City­Cen­ter in Aberdeen). 

My areas of competence

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Unified Modeling Language (OOAD with UML

  • Object ori­ented paradigm: under­stand­ing and use 
  • MOF (Meta Object Facil­it­ies) as found­a­tion of UML nota­tion .
  • UML nota­tion: using for mod­el­ing object ori­ented sys­tems .
  • Mod­el-View-Con­trol­ler (MVC) pat­tern: what is it domain Mod­el in OOAD. 
  • OOAD: how do we use UML dia­grams and for what. Prac­tice. (Use Case dia­gram and use case scen­ario, sequence dia­gram, class dia­gram: sep­ar­ate archi­tec­ture, vocab­u­lary and data types, state machine dia­gram, activ­ity dia­gram, data types in UML/OOAD).
  • Doc­u­ment and mock-up mod­el­ing with UML com­pos­ite struc­ture dia­gram as a classes , NoSQL – doc­u­ment-ori­ented data­base ,
  • Mod­el Driv­en Architecture 
  • More about used meth­ods and tools: see on one of my papers.

Business Process Management and Business Modeling with BPMN and SBVR

  • Busi­ness Pro­cess Man­age­ment, defin­i­tions and scope .
  • BPMN nota­tion: using for busi­ness pro­cess doc­u­ment­a­tion, ana­lys­is and design, optim­iz­a­tion . Descript­ive and Ana­lyt­ic models. 
  • BPMN and oth­er aux­il­i­ary tools .
  • SBVR vocab­u­lary and rules as a busi­ness logic description 

Business analysis, requirements gathering – model-driven approach

  • Incom­plete­ness prob­lem in tex­tu­al require­ments spe­cific­a­tions .
  • Mod­el as a requirements 
  • Dis­cip­lined agile meth­ods , agile modeling 
  • Use Case 2.0
  • Mod­el Based Sys­tem Engin­eer­ing (MBSE) .

I offer high-qual­ity ser­vices in the field of busi­ness ana­lys­is, require­ments spe­cific­a­tion, and soft­ware archi­tec­ture design. All my works are based on Mod­el Driv­en Archi­tec­ture approach (MDA) . It means each ana­lys­is include: the busi­ness ana­lys­is work stage (Com­pu­ta­tion Inde­pend­ent Mod­el design, CIM), require­ments spe­cific­a­tion stage (Use Case mod­el and scen­ario design, as a needed applic­a­tion ser­vices spe­cific­a­tion), and solu­tion design as a tech­nic­al descrip­tion of (Plat­form Inde­pend­ent Mod­el design, PIM) .

I use MBSE meth­ods (see INCOSE page). As an ana­lyst and design­er, I need a domain expert per­son to work (as an author­ized domain know­ledge provider). 

I use the latest proven meth­ods. As a research­er and aca­dem­ic lec­turer, I have the­or­et­ic­al know­ledge too and I know the latest soft­ware engin­eer­ing trends. Thru the last 30 years, I have had many suc­ceed in doing pro­jects for private and pub­lic companies.

CASE software

I’m an exper­i­enced user of one of the best CASE soft­ware (full range Visu­al-Paradigm CASE soft­ware since 2005), if you need any help on how to use CASE sys­tems, how to do mod­el­ling in UML, BPMN, SysML, and so on, ask me about the workshop. 

Keywords: Enter­prise Archi­tect, Busi­ness Ana­lyst, Design Author­ity, Solu­tion Design­er, Solu­tions Architect.

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References

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"Programming is not solely about constructing software—programming is about designing software." (Ipek Ozkaya, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, ipek.ozkaya@computer.org)