The Concise BA Workshop

Why take this course?

After completing this course, you will be able to
  • analyze business activities to identify business procedures, processes and functions
  • apply activity decomposition techniques to
    structure functions, aggregate processes and elementary processes hierarchically
  • describe business activities in terms of the sequencing of work,
    the interaction during performance of the work and the data that is involved.
  • use data/process interaction analysis to enhance and validate information models
  • perform entity-relationship (ERD) data modeling techniques
  • identify equivalencies across process modeling, data modeling and object modeling paradigms
  • select, plan and utilize appropriate elicitation techniques including facilitating workshops.
Who should attend?

The course is intended for those wanting a quick start as Business Analysts or needing a comprehensive understanding of the role and aspect of the BA function

Any prerequisites?

A general understanding of business computer systems and the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) process is helpful in gaining optimal benefit from this course

Dates and Fees

5 Days   ? - $ 1,747 (CAD)  ? Up to 3 - $ 3,494 Up to 6 - $ 5,244    ? Plus - $ 874
 
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What Topics are covered?

Elements of Business Analysis
  • Process Model Components
  • - The Process Model
  • - Business Activity
  • - Business Function
  • - Business Process
  • - Business Procedure
Activity Decomposition
  • - Activity Hierarchy Diagram
  • - Elementary Process
  • - Activity Decomposition Steps
Process Modeling analysis
  • - Modeling Elements
  • - Modeling Steps
  • - Guidelines and Rules
ERD Modeling
  • - Basic Model Components
  • - Entity Types
  • - Attribute
  • - Relationship
  • - complex Relationship
  • - Definion Process
Interaction Analysis
  • - Links between data and process
  • - Life Cycle Analysis
  • - Entity State
  • - CRUD Analysis
  • - Data Flow Diagraming
OO Terminology and Modeling
  • - Object Orientation
  • - OO Key Components
  • - The OO Modeling Process
  • - UML Diagrams
  • - The Class Diagram
  • - The Object Model Diagram
  • - Use Case Diagram
  • - Sequence Diagram
  • - Statechart Diagram
  • - Collaboration Diagram
  • - Component Diagram
  • - Deployment Diagram
Business Analysis Tools
  • - Risk Analysis
  • - Risk Management
  • - Mind Map
  • - Fishbone
  • - Flowchart
  • - Force Field Analysis / T-Chart
  • - Matrix
  • - Radar
Elicitation Process
  • - Where Electitation fits
  • - The Process
  • - The Stakeholders
  • - Overview of techniques
Elicitation Techniques
  • - Survey and questionnaires
  • - Interviews
  • - Requirements Workshops
  • - Observation
  • - Reverse Engineering
  • - Document Analysis
  • - Interface Identification
Facilitation
  • - What does a facilitator do?
  • - The Facilitation Process
  • - Managing participants behaviour
  • - Dealing with conflicts
  • - Facilitating Remote Participants