Objectives

The objectives of the seminar are to:

• Develop skills in eliciting and defining business requirements for any project
• Provide an understanding of the documentation techniques, principles, terminology and concepts
• Provide practical group and individual exercises for requirements gathering and interpreting them
• Supply sample agendas, scripts and templates describing how to capture the various deliverables throughout the discovery phase
• Simulate the business requirements process by giving each seminar participant the opportunity to participate in exercises and be critiqued by the instructor

Seminar Content

• Introduction
• Overview of Business Analysis
• Project Management for Business Analysis
• Key Principles and Concepts in Requirements Management
  • Effective versus poor requirements at various levels
  • The types of requirements and their places in the development process
  • Advantages and disadvantages of each discovery technique and methods for using them on a project
• Gathering and Structuring Requirements
  • Techniques used to gather and structure types of requirements
    1. Interviews
    2. Questionnaires
    3. Workgroup / JAD sessions
    4. Surveys and observations
  • Use cases as a method for gathering and documenting requirements
• Overview of Logical Data Modeling
• Reading a Logical Data Model
• Introduction to Building a Logical Data Model
  • Project Initiation
  • Entity Type Definition
  • Case study exercise
  • Relationship Type Definition
• Entity-level diagram
• Case study exercise
• Key Attribute Type Definition
  • Identifying key attributes
  • Defining key attributes
  • Redefining relationships
• Case study exercise
• Non-Key Attribute Type Definition
  • Identifying and defining non-key attributes
  • Producing a fully refined logical data model
  • Case study exercise
• Fundamentals of Logical Process Modeling
  • Objectives and modeling definitions
  • Process modeling techniques
• Building Context Diagrams
  • Identifying functions, external objects, and information views
  • Case study exercise for building context diagrams
• Building Process Decomposition Diagrams
  • Objectives and definitions
  • Rules of decomposition to the elementary process
  • Case study exercise for building process decomposition diagrams
• Building Process Flows and Data Flow Diagrams
  • Objectives, definitions, and types of dependencies
  • Identifying external objects, data stores, and information views
  • Agendas, scripts, templates, and facilitation techniques
  • Case study exercise building the process flow and data flow diagrams using the context and decomposition diagrams
  • Case study exercise building the action diagram for a process
• Additional Information Used in Business Analysis
  • Metadata and its role in information systems
  • Storage and access to metadata
  • Repositories and their strengths and limitations
• Facilitating for Business Requirements
  • JAD approaches for data and process requirements gathering techniques
  • Agendas, scripts, templates, and facilitation techniques for requirements meetings and focus groups
• Documenting User Requirements
  • Developing appropriate documentation for various user and technical functions
  • Using requirements for informative communication throughout the project's lifecycle
  • Transforming requirements into specifications
    1. Differences between requirements and specifications
    2. Techniques for transformation and use as foundation for application development
• Workshop Summary

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