Introduction to Modeling for Business Analysis
COURSE TYPE
Foundation
Course Number
447
Duration
4 Days
In this course, you learn 20 of the 50 business analysis techniques listed in the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) Version 3.0. With these skills, you are better equipped to illustrate and document the functionality and structure of your organization, and more efficiently fulfill your role as a business analyst on business and software requirements projects.
You Will Learn How To
- Perform a functional decomposition of your organization
- Diagram and document business processes as use cases
- Capture workflows in Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
- Apply UML diagrams to document your business objects and their states
- Use a CASE tool to refine business analysis models and documentation
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Why do you need business analysis models?
- Modeling techniques within A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)
- Defining the Scope of Modeling
What is a business model?
- Separating textual and diagrammatic elements
- Contrasting scope with levels of detail
Crafting a process to develop a business model
- Applying the steps: elicit, analyze, specify, 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 for your stakeholders
- Employing CASE tools and simulations
- Mapping the Business Landscape
Analyzing the enterprise
- Exploring the enterprise architecture
- Decomposing the business architecture into its components: motivation, structure, functionality, processes, resources and other views
Applying business rules
- Documenting the constraints: operative and structural
- Representing business rules with decision tables
- Scoping Business Functions
Initiating the process with functional decomposition
- Determining the functional hierarchies
- Distinguishing between functions, processes, and activities
Drawing UML use case diagrams
- Defining scope and boundary
- Identifying the actors and stakeholders
- Refining the use cases
Documenting business processes
- Selecting the level of detail: brief, casual or fully dressed
- Specifying preconditions and post-conditions
- Modeling Business Processes and Workflows
Leveraging Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
- Workflows
- Events
- Activities and tasks
- Decision gateways
- Sequence flows
- Messages
- Swimlanes
- Tokens
Applying process modeling techniques
- Sequencing and classifying activities
- Decomposing activities into sub-processes
- Categorizing events
Refining business process diagrams
- Choosing the right gateways: branches, forks and joins
- Mapping the processes to lanes and pools
- Supplementing the model with data and artifacts: groups and annotations
- Analyzing the Enterprise Structure
Establishing the business domain
- Documenting the workers and organization units
- Using data modeling to analyze business objects
Structuring the enterprise with UML class diagrams
- Constructing associations between the classes
- Packaging for subject areas and organization units
- Capturing business object attributes
- Finalizing the Business Model
Achieving complete coverage with matrices
- Applying the Responsibility Assignment matrix (RACI)
- Prioritizing features
- Cross-referencing requirements
Contextualizing the model with perspectives
- Documenting business interfaces
- Motivational Mapping from means to ends
- Capturing event timing parameters
- Modeling states with the UML State Machine Diagram
- Specifying supplementary & quality of service requirements
- Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders
- Choosing the right models for your audience
- Transforming business requirements into user requirements
- Delivering and presenting your models
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Standard
$2990
Government
$2659
Private Team Training
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Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
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- Bring proof of your progress back to your organization
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