Business Analysis Modeling Essentials

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Course Description

This course presents several common models to help you elicit and analyze requirements. You will practice analyzing, modeling, and reviewing the requirements as you work through an engaging case study. You will also learn and practice industry-standard modeling notation for each model. The models in this class follow the concurrent modeling framework, emphasizing process, data, interaction, and interface requirements. This simple framework will help you develop a quicker and more complete set of requirements.

This course has been approved for 14 PDUs | 14 CDUs

Course Objective

Identify common modeling techniques used by business analysts.
Create a scope diagram to facilitate in-scope and out-of-scope discussions.
Model business processes, creating “as-is” and “to-be” process maps.
Develop a basic Entity-Relationship Diagram to model data requirements.
Provide a narrative and produce a use case diagram to map out the various paths an actor may take to use the software
Implement a Paper Prototype to document interface requirements.

Course Outline

Requirements Modeling Overview

Modeling defined
Benefits of modeling
Concurrent Solution Modeling Framework
Introduction to common models
Business, Project and Requirements Context
Requirement classifications reviewed

Prepare for a Process Modeling Session

Process modeling overview
Prepare for a modeling session
Techniques to help modeling sessions stay focused
Create a scope diagram

Creating a Process Map

Primary and alternative paths
Basic process mapping notation
Swimlanes and process map
Create a process map

Data Modeling

Data model overview
Eight-step modeling process
Data model notations
Define data terms & create a data model

Use Cases

Use case model overview
Use case notation
Create a use case diagram
Document a use case narrative

User Interface Modeling (Prototyping)

Prototype overview
UI planning
Create paper prototype