Our Courses
Data Modelling
Requirements Specification and Management
Business Process Modelling
Data Models are be used to specify the information needs or information requirements of an organisation in a graphical format.
Having completed the course, you will be able to produce class models to represent the information requirements of an organisation.
Business Process Modelling
Requirements Specification and Management
Business Process Modelling
Modelling Business Processes is a core skill of a business analyst and will be used in some form on most projects whether it is to describe how things are done now (As Is) or a future state (To be).
This course will give you the skills you need to
- Model and evaluate an existing process
- Help the business to design processes for the future
- Perform a gap analysis between existing and proposed processes to help understand the impact of the change
This course will provide you with a Process Description Template for you to use on your own projects.
Requirements Specification and Management
Requirements Specification and Management
Requirements Specification and Management
To enable you to produce good quality Business requirements.
Considers
- The key activities that need to be performed in order to produce good quality requirements
- Implications of getting it wrong
- An approach to Requirements Management
- Specifying High Level and Low-Level Requirements
Writing Quality User Stories
Writing Quality User Stories
Requirements Specification and Management
Any Business Analyst would be expected to have a working knowledge of User Stories.
This course will help you understand what a Use Case is, why they are used to support the specification of business requirements and what makes a quality user story.
This course will give you the skills you need to produce effective User Stories.
You will learn:
- What is meant by a User Story
- The difference between Technical Stories and User Stories
- The format of a User Story
- How to evaluate the quality of a User Story
Use Case Modelling
Writing Quality User Stories
Use Case Modelling
This course gives you the skills you need to produce Use Case Diagrams and Use Case Descriptions.
Use Case Diagrams are used to graphically represent the high-level requirements or functionality of a proposed system.
They can be used to clarify the differences between different options for a proposed system in terms of the functionality provided by each option
Use Case Descriptions are used to document the key steps and interactions between the user and the system needed to perform the functions identified in the Use Case Diagram.
State Modelling
Writing Quality User Stories
Use Case Modelling
Explore State Models, also known as State Machines or State Transition Diagrams to give you an understanding of what that they look like, their key components and how they are used by Business Analysts to support database design, development, and testing.
This includes
- Specification of the possible states of a record or business object
- Definition of the actions or events that cause changes to the status of a record
- Understanding of how they add more detail to the requirements documentation
- Support the work of testers and database designers
This course gives you the skills needed to produce State Models on your projects or read models produced by others
Discovery, Feasibility and the Business Case
Discovery, Feasibility and the Business Case
Discovery, Feasibility and the Business Case
To help an organisation understand the full implications of a potential business change. business analysts are often asked to discover and define the current situation including the key issues faced and what is needed to resolve them.
This course gives you the skills to undertake a Discovery project, conduct a feasibility study and support the development of a business case.