business analysis core skills training

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Data Models are be used to specify the information needs or information requirements of an organisation in a graphical format.  

This course will use meaningful and practical examples to explain and demonstrate the notation used and show you how to develop them them.

Having completed the course, you will be able to produce class models to represent the information requirements of an organisation.

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The objective of this course s to introduce and give examples of criteria that can be used to review the quality of requirements and reduce the risk of project failure. 

We will be looking at: 

• Primary Criteria which are used as soon as a requirement is identified and documented. 
• Secondary Criteria which are applied as the requirements is elaborated and are used to determine if the requirement is “ready” for development. 

Having completed the course, you will be in a better position to review requirements (your own and other people's) to identify and resolve issues that affect their quality.

  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  

  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  

    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.

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. 

  Explore start 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

      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.