4-10 The Blitz: Introduction to Business Analysis and Requirements Gathering
A 4-day Introduction to Business Systems Analysis
The job of a business analyst is to determine what is wrong with the way things work today and to define what should change to make life easier for the end user. Business analysts need to be obsessed with understanding how business processes, information, and technology interact to empower and organization to fulfill its mission.
This seminar will teach you the most commonly used techniques for analyzing business technology solutions and defining quality business requirements. The evolving role of business and systems analysts is explained. Current information gathering and documentation techniques from the effective use of JAR/JAD sessions to the concepts of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) are introduced.
Topics
- Define the evolving role of today's business analyst
- Identify the critical skills required by business analysts
- Organize questions, issues and assumptions efficiently
- Write clear, easy-to-understand problem statements
- Plan and conduct effective interviews
- Prepare, perform and follow up problem and requirements interviews
- Describe how to use the six types of requirements gathering workshop sessions
- Use 10 Critical Questions to guide the requirements capture and clarify process
- Determine the most appropriate methodology based on project parameters
- Discuss the impact of Rapid Development techniques on requirements gathering
- Use process models to identify business process problems
- List error and exception process impacts
- Communicate the operation of the business process to other business personnel
- Identify process measurements to evaluate initial improvement
- Assess the potential impact the UML will have on business analysis
- List the major UML models that support the business analysis effort
- Write a "good" business system requirement
- Distinguish between business requirements and system specifications
- Extract requirements from a management vision statement
- Create business requirements from problem statements
- Develop requirements based on busienss events and responses
- Decompose requirements into 5 major types and their subtypes
- Use business requirements to define test cases
Who Should Attend?
- Business Analysts
- Systems Analysts
- Business Process Users
- Business Process Managers
- Subject Matter Experts
- End User Representatives
- Anyone involved in defining or deciphering business system requirements
Prerequisites: None
Duration: 4 day workshop
PDUs/Contact Hours: 32
Course Dates & Locations:
No current dates are posted. Please contact our office (317.275.2870) if you are interested in this course.