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Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis


Course: 4474 dagar

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You Will Learn How To

  • Leverage critical modelling techniques to become a successful business analyst
  • Define the scope, process, tools and deliverables for business modelling
  • Analyse business functions with Use Cases
  • Model core workflows and crucial processes with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
  • Apply Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams to effectively analyse the enterprise structure
  • Build business models that accurately reflect the scope and complexities of the entire organisation

Course Benefits

In a modern, fast-paced business environment, analysts must possess skills to effectively communicate business goals, rules, structure and workflow to all relevant stakeholders. A working knowledge of modelling 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 modelling experience. In the context of a real-world case study, you apply best practices in modelling to help you fulfill your crucial role as a business analyst.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who needs a practical foundation in business-modelling techniques as well as business analysts who need to gather requirements and create comprehensive models.

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Through an extended case study, you gain confidence applying powerful modelling techniques and skills in the business analyst toolkit. Team- and computer-based activities include:
  • Building models which include text and diagram elements
  • Highlighting inconsistencies between business rules and a decision table
  • Applying a CASE tool to refine a process diagram
  • Identifying gateways and swimlanes
  • Creating and refining a use case diagram
  • Elaborating a business process model
  • Revising a business object model
  • Defining business glossary entries
  • Finding inconsistencies and omissions using matrices
  • Specifying a business interface
  • Communicating the final results to the key stakeholders

Course Content

Introduction

  • Why do you need business models?
  • Modelling techniques within the IIBA® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®)

Defining the Scope of Modelling

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, analyse, document, validate
  • Iterating the steps
  • OMG modelling standards
  • Facilitating requirements workshops
  • Correlating models to project type and deliverables

Capturing the multidimensional aspects of an organisation

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

Mapping the Business Landscape

Analysing the enterprise

  • Exploring the enterprise architecture
  • Decomposing the architecture into its components: business, technology and other perspectives

Applying business rules

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

Documenting business use cases

  • Selecting the level of detail: brief, casual or fully dressed
  • Specifying preconditions and postconditions

Modelling Business Processes

Applying process modelling techniques

  • Workflows
  • Events
  • Activities
  • Decisions
  • Sequencing
  • Messaging
  • Participants

Leveraging Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)

  • Benefits from a standardised approach
  • Sequencing and classifying activities
  • Decomposing activities into subprocesses and tasks
  • Categorising events

Refining business process diagrams

  • Choosing the right gateway: decisions, forks and joins
  • Mapping the processes to swimlanes and pools
  • Supplementing the model with artifacts: data objects, groups and annotations

Analysing the Enterprise Structure

Establishing the business domain

  • Documenting the workers and organisation units
  • Modelling systems, documents, information and tools

Structuring the enterprise with UML class diagrams

  • Determining object attributes
  • Generalising and specialising relationships
  • Constructing associations between the classes
  • Packaging for domains and functional units

Finalising the Business Model

Achieving complete coverage with matrices

  • Prioritising features
  • Cross-referencing requirements
  • Applying the Responsibility Assignment Matrix

Contextualising the model with perspectives

  • Documenting business interfaces
  • Mapping from means into ends
  • Capturing time parameters
  • Specifying Supplementary and Quality of Service requirements

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

  • Choosing the right models for your audience
  • Transforming business models into user requirements
  • Delivering and presenting your models

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