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Introduction to Modeling for Business Analysis
Course: 447
Type: RealityPlus
Duration: 4 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Leverage critical modeling techniques to become a successful business analyst
- Define the scope and intent of a business model
- Build an enterprise architecture model that accurately reflects the complexities of the entire organization
- Model core business functions and crucial processes with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
- Apply UML to effectively analyze the enterprise structure
- Communicate the completed business model to key stakeholders
Course Benefits 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 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 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.Through an extended case study, you gain confidence applying powerful modeling techniques and skills in the business analyst toolkit. Team- and PC-based activities include:
- Building models which include text and diagram elements
- Highlighting inconsistencies between documented practices and business reality
- Applying a CASE tool to refine an organization chart
- Producing an enterprise architecture
- Pinpointing inaccurate or ambiguous business rules
- Creating and refining a use case diagram
- Building and elaborating a business process model
- Constructing and revising a business object model
- Finding inconsistencies and omissions using matrices
- Communicating the final results to the key stakeholders
Course 447 Content
- Why do you need business models?
- Modeling skills within the IIBA™ Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®)
- Separating textual and diagrammatic elements
- Contrasting scope with level of detail
- Applying the steps: elicit, analyze, document, validate, iterate
- Facilitating requirements workshops
- Mapping models to deliverables
- Applying the 5 Ws approach: who, what, where, when, why and how
- Selecting the right modeling approach
- Employing CASE tools and simulation
- Building the enterprise architecture
- Decomposing the architecture into its components: business, technology and other perspectives
- Documenting the constraints: operative and structural
- Representing rules with decision tables
- Determining the functional hierarchies
- Distinguishing between functions and processes
- Defining scope and boundary
- Identifying the actors
- Refining the use cases
- Selecting the appropriate level of detail: brief, casual or fully dressed
- Specifying pre-conditions and post-conditions
- Structuring the interface layouts
- Workflows
- Events
- Actions
- Decisions
- Sequencing
- Messaging
- Roles
- Benefits from a standardized approach
- Categorizing events in relation to workflow
- Sequencing and classifying activities
- Choosing the right gateway: decisions, forks and joins
- Mapping the processes to swim lanes and pools
- Supplementing the model with artifacts: data objects, groups and annotations
- Documenting the workers and organization units
- Modeling systems, documents, information and tools
- Determining object attributes
- Generalizing and specializing relationships
- Constructing associations between the classes
- Packaging for domains and functional units
- Investigating the object life cycle
- Labeling transitions with events, conditions and actions
- Prioritizing features
- Cross-referencing requirements
- Correlating behavior with structure
- Usability
- Motivation
- Timing
- Policies
- Procedures
- Dynamics
- Knowing your audience
- Selecting the right level of detail
- Choosing the right model for your audience
- Converting business models into user requirements
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