Modeling for Business Analysis Training

In this Business Analysis Modeling training, you participate in an immersive, simulated case study, providing you with the business modeling skills necessary to produce Enterprise Architectures, Business Cases, Business Requirements and Software Requirements documents. You learn to apply analysis and modeling techniques such as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to describe business workflows, as well as UML diagrams to analyze the enterprise structure and states of business objects.

Modeling for Business Analysis Training Benefits

• In this Business Analysis course, you will learn how to:

  • Perform a functional decomposition of your organization.
  • Diagram and document business processes as use cases.
  • Capture workflows in Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN).
  • Apply UML diagrams to document your business objects and their states.
  • Use a CASE tool to refine business analysis models and documentation.

• Prerequisites

  While not required, attendees should know the challenges and business concerns involved in matching IT solutions to business problems.

Business Analysis Modeling Course Outline

Introduction

• Why do you need business analysis models?
• Modeling techniques within A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)

Module 1: Defining the Scope of Modeling

What is a business model?

• Separating textual and diagrammatic elements
• Contrasting scope with levels of detail

Crafting a process to develop a business model

• Applying the steps: elicit, analyze, specify, validate
• Iterating the steps
• OMG modeling standards
• Facilitating requirements workshops
• Correlating models to project type and deliverables

Capturing the multidimensional aspects of an organization

• Applying the five Ws approach: who, what, where, when, why, and how
• Selecting the right level of detail for your stakeholders
• Employing CASE tools and simulations

Module 2: Mapping the Business Landscape

Analyzing the enterprise

• Exploring the enterprise architecture
• Decomposing the business architecture into its components: motivation, structure, functionality, processes, resources, and other views

Applying business rules

• Documenting the constraints: operative and structural
• Representing business rules with decision tables

Module 3: Scoping Business Functions

Initiating the process with functional decomposition

• Determining the functional hierarchies
• Distinguishing between functions, processes, and activities

Drawing UML use case diagrams

• Defining scope and boundary
• Identifying the actors and stakeholders
• Refining the use cases

Documenting business processes

• Selecting the level of detail: brief, casual, or fully dressed
• Specifying preconditions and post-conditions

Module 4: Modeling Business Processes and Workflows

Leveraging Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)

• Workflows
• Events
• Activities and tasks
• Decision gateways
• Sequence flows
• Messages
• Swimlanes
• Tokens

Applying process modeling techniques

• Sequencing and classifying activities
• Decomposing activities into sub-processes
• Categorizing events

Refining business process diagrams

• Choosing the right gateways: branches, forks, and joins
• Mapping the processes to lanes and pools
• Supplementing the model with data and artifacts: groups and annotations

Module 5: Analyzing the Enterprise Structure

Establishing the business domain

• Documenting the workers and organization units
• Using data modeling to analyze business objects

Structuring the enterprise with UML class diagrams

• Constructing associations between the classes
• Packaging for subject areas and organization units
• Capturing business object attributes

Module 6: Finalizing the Business Model

Achieving complete coverage with matrices

• Applying the Responsibility Assignment matrix (RACI)
• Prioritizing features
• Cross-referencing requirements

Contextualizing the model with perspectives

• Documenting business interfaces
• Motivational Mapping from means to ends
• Capturing event timing parameters
• Modeling states with the UML State Machine Diagram
• Specifying supplementary & quality of service requirements

Module 7: Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

• Choosing the right models for your audience
• Transforming business requirements into user requirements
• Delivering and presenting your models