OK, great.
So now we're starting a new section again, now we're going to be very practical.
Now we're going to talk about how we actually perform conceptual modeling exercises.
How do you facilitate a workshop?
How do you prepare for the workshop?
How do you document it afterwards?
And a lot of tricks of the trade.
So this is going to be a first or would you lecture?
And then we are going to have specific lectures about the different aspects of our performing, conceptual
modeling, conceptual mapping.
But as I said, let's get practical.
So we have, up to this point, been a little bit theoretical in some of these sections.
And then we have talked about the syntax of UML and that's the modeling language language that we are
using for this exercise and in discourse.
But now we're going to talk about how to use it.
Practically producing crystal clear models is actually a craftmanship.
It's nothing that you learn just by doing it once or fiddling around with some boxes and lines.
It it actually takes up quite a lot of time to make the models and maps and diagrams readable and understandable
by a large set of people.
And hence you need to practice.
So that's quite understandable.
I suppose you also need a lot of tricks of the trade and kind of just so you can have up your sleeve
and just pull out whatever you need if you're confronted with a specific scenario or problem situation.
So some of the techniques and also areas that we're going to cover in this section is, first of all,
how to prepare for a workshop.
What do you need to do actually before you go into the room with a set of people doing a conceptual
modelling exercise?
Secondly, we're going to talk about how you usually are actually Hawaii at least usually conduct such
workshops and facilitate them.
I usually use a technique called storytelling.
So we're going to talk about how that could be applied to conceptual analysis and conceptual modeling.
Then we're going to talk about how you can use object diagrams when during the workshop to exemplify
a little bit harder scenarios or more complex scenarios so that everybody could understand and also
come up with a solution to a problem.
We're going to talk about pattern recognition, how you can think about when you're trying to find patterns
in your conceptual model.
And we're going to talk about how we can utilize patterns.
So there's one thing of actually finding patterns in a model.
You already have started creating this huge knowledge base out there with patterns that you can utilize
in your concrete models.
And that's very, very powerful.
We're going to talk about that and then we're going to talk about how modeling processes and behavior
in an organization is related to modeling the key concepts and the structures of the organization.
So we have when we talk about conceptual models, we focus on the structural aspect of how the terms
and the concepts are related to each other, not time bound, so to speak.
But then another very important aspect, usually on modeling and business is, of course, talking about
its behavior, which you do in process models maybe, and how those two techniques related and how could
they be developed and wine intertwined.
And then we're going to talk about diagram composition.
So once you have actually had the workshop where you need to document the result, how would you, in
the best possible way view this in a diagram?
And how do you compose a diagram so that it's the most readable version of this model?
Very good.
So basically, there's three phases of our workshop here.
So it's not that you go directly into a room and then you're done.
After you've been in this workshop, you need to prepare the workshop.
They run the facilitate the workshop and then you need to document it.
Good.
That was the overview section.
And now we're going to actually touch upon the first subject here, which is preparation.
Our workshop will see that.