Modeling is the designing of software applications before coding. A model plays the analogous role in software development that blueprints and other plans play in the building of a skyscraper. Using a model, those responsible for a software development project's success can assure themselves that business functionality is complete and correct, end-user needs are met, and program design supports requirements for scalability, robustness, security, extendibility and other characteristics, before implementation in code renders changes difficult and expensive.
Surveys show that large software projects have a huge probability of failure - in fact, it's more likely that a large software application will fail to meet all of its requirements on time and on budget than that it will succeed. If you're running one of these projects, you need to do all you can to increase the odds for success, and modeling is the only way to visualise your design and check it against requirements before your crew starts to code.
Process Workshop solutions utilise the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®). UML helps you specify, visualise, and document models of software systems, including their structure and design, in a way that meets all of these requirements. You can use UML for business modeling and modeling of other non-software systems too. Using any one of the large number of UML-based tools on the market, you can analyse your future application's requirements and design a solution that meets them, representing the results using UML's twelve standard diagrams.
