Introduction to Modeling for Business Analysis Training

Business Analysis Modeling 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