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Introduction to Modeling for Business Analysis

 
Course: 447   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23   CPE: 23
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Leverage critical modeling techniques to become a successful business analyst
  • Define the scope, process, tools and deliverables for business modeling
  • Analyze business functions with Use Cases
  • Model core workflows and crucial processes with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
  • Apply Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams to effectively analyze the enterprise structure
  • Build business models that accurately reflect the scope and complexities of the entire organization

Course Benefits

In a modern, fast-paced business environment, analysts must possess skills to effectively communicate business goals, needs, rules, structure and workflow to all relevant stakeholders. A working knowledge of modeling is the key to ensuring that this business challenge is met. This course is structured around a series of activities in which you gain practical modeling experience. In the context of a real-world case study, you apply best practices in modeling to help you fulfill your crucial role as a business analyst.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who needs a practical foundation in business-modeling techniques as well as business analysts who need to gather requirements and create comprehensive models.

RealityPlus™

Through an extended case study, you gain confidence applying powerful modeling techniques and skills in the business analyst toolkit. Team- and computer-based activities include:
  • Organizing a requirements workshop
  • Highlighting inconsistencies between business rules and a decision table
  • Creating and refining a use case diagram
  • Applying a CASE tool to refine a process diagram
  • Combining activities, gateways and swimlanes
  • Completing a business process model
  • Revising a business object model
  • Defining business glossary entries
  • Finding inconsistencies and omissions using matrices
  • Specifying a business interface
  • Communicating the final results to the key stakeholders

Related Courses

 
RealityPlusTM is a trademark of Learning Tree International, Inc. IIBA, BABOK, and Business Analysis Body of Knowledge are registered trademarks owned by International Institute of Business Analysis. 		 

Training Dates

Mar 20 - 23New York 
Apr 2 - 5Rockville, MD
Apr 24 - 27Reston, VA
May 15 - 18Ottawa 
May 29 - Jun 1Toronto 
Jun 19 - 22New York 
Jul 31 - Aug 3Rockville, MD
Aug 14 - 17Ottawa 
Aug 21 - 24Reston, VA
Sep 25 - 28Toronto 
Oct 16 - 19New York 
Nov 13 - 16Ottawa 
Nov 27 - 30Rockville, MD
Dec 18 - 21Reston, VA

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Introduction to Modeling for Business Analysis

 
Course: 447   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23   CPE: 23
 
 
Course 447 Content
 

Introduction

  • Why do you need business models?
  • Modeling techniques within the IIBA® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®)

Defining the Scope of Modeling

What is a business model?

  • Separating textual and diagrammatic elements
  • Contrasting scope with level of detail

Crafting a process to develop a business model

  • Applying the steps: elicit, analyze, document, validate
  • Iterating the steps
  • OMG modeling standards
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Correlating models to project type and deliverables

Capturing the multidimensional aspects of an organization

  • Applying the five Ws approach: who, what, where, when, why and how
  • Selecting the right level of detail
  • Employing CASE tools and simulation

Mapping the Business Landscape

Analyzing the enterprise

  • Exploring the enterprise architecture
  • Decomposing the architecture into its components: business, technology and other perspectives

Applying business rules

  • Documenting the constraints: operative and structural
  • Representing operative rules with decision tables

Scoping Business Functions

Initiating the process with functional decomposition

  • Determining the functional hierarchies
  • Distinguishing between functions and processes

Drawing UML use case diagrams

  • Defining scope and boundary
  • Identifying the actors and stakeholders
  • Refining the use cases

Documenting business use cases

  • Selecting the level of detail: brief, casual or fully dressed
  • Specifying preconditions and postconditions

Modeling Business Processes

Applying process modeling techniques

  • Workflows
  • Events
  • Activities
  • Decisions
  • Sequencing
  • Messaging
  • Participants

Leveraging Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

  • Benefits from a standardized approach
  • Sequencing and classifying activities
  • Decomposing activities into subprocesses and tasks
  • Categorizing events

Refining business process diagrams

  • Choosing the right gateway: decisions, forks and joins
  • Mapping the processes to swimlanes and pools
  • Supplementing the model with artifacts: data objects, groups and annotations

Analyzing the Enterprise Structure

Establishing the business domain

  • Documenting the workers and organization units
  • Modeling systems, documents, information and tools

Structuring the enterprise with UML class diagrams

  • Determining object attributes
  • Generalizing and specializing relationships
  • Constructing associations between the classes
  • Packaging for domains and functional units

Finalizing the Business Model

Achieving complete coverage with matrices

  • Prioritizing features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Applying the Responsibility Assignment Matrix

Contextualizing the model with perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping from means to ends
  • Capturing time parameters
  • Specifying Supplementary and Quality of Service requirements

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

  • Choosing the right models for your audience
  • Transforming business models into user requirements
  • Delivering and presenting your models
 
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Introduction to Modeling for Business Analysis Tuition

 
Course: 447   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23   CPE: 23
 
 
Course Tuition
$ 2,890Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
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$ 1,833Training Passport
$ 2,250Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,267Triple-Pack
$ 2,573Government Discount
$ 2,600Alumni Gold Discount

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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