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BA 101 – Business Process Modeling – Concepts and Development

Duration: 3 – 4 days

This seminar focuses on how to model processes for information systems projects. The seminar consists of an introduction to the Business Analyst function and teaches the concepts of business process modeling as part of requirements management.

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This seminar focuses on how to model processes for information systems projects. The seminar consists of an introduction to the Business Analyst function and teaches the concepts of business process modeling as part of requirements management. This interactive course provides a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises using a continuing case study. It blends a high level review of basic business process modeling activities and concepts with their development to support business requirements.

Objectives

The objectives of the seminar are to:

  • Understand the appropriate modeling method for a given business requirement
  • Properly prepare business process models in several formats
  • Construct business process models with the appropriate components and rigor
  • Use the business process models to analyze changes in business processes, costs of various alternatives and requirements for application development
  • Create well-constructed business process models, and provide appropriate related documentation

Seminar Content

  • Introduction, Review of Business Process Models
    • Phases of application development
    • Importance of building business models
    • Overview of the types of process models
  • Overview of Modeling Business Processes
    • Goals of BPM
    • Objectives of BPM
    • Various formats used in modeling business processes
    • Documenting business procedures
    • Rules and best practices in BPM
  • Requirements Determination
    • Analysis of current processes
    • Methods for gathering and analyzing processes
    • Business process automation, improvement and re-engineering
    • Documentation requirements for process models
  • Context Diagramming
    • Definition of a context diagram
    • Role of context diagrams in BPM
    • Methods of context diagramming
  • Creating Business Process Models in Flowcharting
    • Flowcharting basics
    • Creating a flowchart
    • Expanding a flowchart
    • Conventions used in flowcharting for process modeling
  • Functional Decomposition
    • Definition of a functional decomposition
    • Decomposing a process model to atomic levels
    • Role of functional decomposition diagrams in BPM
  • Model Documentation
    • Visio Documentation and other diagrams
    • Other modeling documents
  • Validating and Presenting Business Process Models
    • Validation of all forms of process models
    • Presentation of the charts and documentation
    • Validation and presentation suggestions
  • Conclusion

About the Course Designer

This training was designed by David Marco, PhD, an internationally recognized authority on data and AI governance, to help teams succeed in real organizational conditions. The curriculum equips participants with practical judgment, shared language, and decision clarity that hold under scale, risk, and executive accountability.

David Marco PHD EWSolutions

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