Overview
This 2-day course is appropriate for anyone that needs to learn how to analyze and model requirements to support high-quality Business Analysis work. Participants will practice analyzing and modeling process, data, interfaces, interactions, decisions and business rules.
Instructor: Jen Battan
This class will earn 14 Professional Development hours that can be used towards meeting your PMI and IIBA certifications. This is an instructor-led interactive course.
Approach
Our goal at Bob the BA is to help you think, learn and work differently so you can make an impact back on the job. If you always do what you have always done, you will end up right where you were before you were trained right? So at Bob the BA, we take a different approach because we know we learn best by doing and not through lecture. Our courses are always hands-on, practicing through exercises, activities, facilitated discussions, case studies, role play, workshops, printed materials and presentations.
Who Should Take This Course?
Anyone that is interested in a career in Business Analysis, wants foundational training analyzing and modeling requirements.
Course Length
2-Days
Objectives
Understand the importance of modeling and analyzing requirements
Understand and practice different types of modeling including process, data, interface, and interaction
Learn when and why to model
Understand impacts to modeling based on stakeholder preferences and needs
Understand progressive elaboration of requirements and what the right level of detail to model is
Course Topics
Process modeling (Process Maps, Swim Lanes)
Data modeling (Data Matrix, ERD, Class Diagram, Data Mining)
Interface modeling (Prototypes, Mockups, Wireframes, Storyboards)
Interaction modeling (Use Cases, SIPOC)
Decision modeling (Decision Trees, Weighted Ranking)
Business rules analysis in modeling
Tying models back to scope modeling
Levels of detail and abstraction in modeling
Modeling based on approach (Agile, Waterfall, Incremental)
