Description

Business analysis training: in a modern, fast-paced business environment, analysts must possess skills to effectively communicate business 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 business analysis training 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.

Objectifs pédagogiques

Clarifying the role of the business analyst
Analyzing and prioritizing competing business needs
Creating dynamic business models using workflow diagrams
Writing SMART business objectives
Quantifying business case benefits and costs
Communicating the requirements package to stakeholders

Public cible

Business-Analysts

Programme de la formation

Introduction

Why do you need business models?
Modeling skills

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
Facilitating requirements workshops
Mapping models to deliverables

Charting the multidimensional aspects of a business model

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

Analyzing the enterprise
Exploring the enterprise architecture
Decomposing the architecture into its components
Usage of a Component Business Model

Applying business rules

Documenting the constraints: operative and structural
Representing 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
Refining the use cases

Documenting business use cases

Selecting the appropriate level of detail
Specifying preconditions and post-conditions
Modeling Business Processes

Applying process modeling techniques

Workflows
Events
Activities
Decisions
Sequencing
Messaging
Roles

Leveraging Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

Benefits from a standardized approach
Sequencing and classifying activities
Categorizing events
Emulating a Business Process

Refining business process diagrams

Choosing the right gateway: decisions, forks and joins
Mapping the processes to swim lanes and pools
Supplementing the model with artifacts

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
Correlating behavior with roles

Contextualizing the model with perspectives

Documenting business interfaces
Mapping from means into ends
Capturing time parameters

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

Knowing your audience
Selecting the right level of detail
Choosing the right model for your audience
Converting business models into user requirements
Delivering your models

Qualité

Cette formation est accessible aux personnes en situation de handicap, nous contacter en cas de besoin d’informations complémentaires.

Programme mis à jour le 8 novembre 2023