FBM Workshop

With Fact Based Modeling (FBM), you lay a solid foundation for clear structure and communication within your organization

How do you capture information comprehensibly and in a structured manner?

Do people in your organization regularly talk past each other? Are you experiencing a gap between business and IT? Do you need unambiguous functional and technical specifications?

Fact Based Modeling (FBM) has proven to be the most efficient approach to make knowledge in an understandable language, effectively applicable for the benefit of all stakeholders.

With PNA’s FBM workshop, you obtain your knowledge directly from the source. Our teachers have extensive practical experience and have actively participated in various world standards. Moreover, through an introduction to cogNIAM, we make connections between processes, rules, data and semantics.

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Bas van de Laar

Solution Consultant

Open workshop FBM

  • 2-day workshop from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm including lunch.
  • Available in Dutch and English.
  • € 1450 (excluding VAT) per participant. Maximum of 8 participants per workshop.

What will you learn during this workshop?

  • Based on concrete examples, you will learn to model data structures in a repeatable and understandable way and define used terms in relation to each other.
  • Establish quality FBM models based on PNA best practices.
  • How to get your FBM models validated by domain experts within your organization.
  • How to link these FBM models to the relevant source documents in laws and regulations and/or your internal policy documents.
  • How to relate information structures and concepts to the processes and rules within your organization using the cogNIAM® method.

About Fact Based Modeling

Fact-Based Modeling, known from variants such as NIAM, ORM, FCO-IM and cogNIAM, is the most effective method for establishing conceptual information structures and data definitions. The natural language-based approach ensures optimal interaction with domain experts and results in maximum knowledge assurance.

The unique advantages

  • PNA has been involved in the development of FBM for more than 40 years. In the workshop we will share our knowledge and experience with FBM and give you guidelines for use in practice.

  • You obtain your knowledge directly from the source. PNA pioneered FBM, ORM, FCO-IM and cogNIAM. Our instructors have extensive practical experience at (inter)national organizations and have actively contributed to several world standards, including SBVR, BPMN 2.0 and DMN.

  • During the workshop, a practical example selected by you will be used. You can apply FBM in your organization immediately after the workshop.

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