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You Will Learn How To
- Leverage critical modelling techniques to become a successful business analyst
- Define the scope, process, tools and deliverables for business modelling
- Analyse business functions with Use Cases
- Model core workflows and crucial processes with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
- Apply Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams to effectively analyse the enterprise structure
- Build business models that accurately reflect the scope and complexities of the entire organisation
Course Benefits In a modern, fast-paced business environment, analysts must possess skills to effectively communicate business goals, rules, structure and workflow to all relevant stakeholders. A working knowledge of modelling is the key to ensuring that this business challenge is met. This course is structured around a series of activities in which you gain practical modelling experience. In the context of a real-world case study, you apply best practices in modelling to help you fulfill your crucial role as a business analyst.
Who Should Attend Anyone who needs a practical foundation in business-modelling techniques as well as business analysts who need to gather requirements and create comprehensive models.
RealityPlus™ Through an extended case study, you gain confidence applying powerful modelling techniques and skills in the business analyst toolkit. Team- and computer-based activities include:
- Building models which include text and diagram elements
- Highlighting inconsistencies between business rules and a decision table
- Applying a CASE tool to refine a process diagram
- Identifying gateways and swimlanes
- Creating and refining a use case diagram
- Elaborating a business process model
- Revising a business object model
- Defining business glossary entries
- Finding inconsistencies and omissions using matrices
- Specifying a business interface
- Communicating the final results to the key stakeholders
Course Content Introduction
- Why do you need business models?
- Modelling techniques within the IIBA® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®)
Defining the Scope of Modelling
What is a business model?
- Separating textual and diagrammatic elements
- Contrasting scope with level of detail
Crafting a process to develop a business model
- Applying the steps: elicit, analyse, document, validate
- Iterating the steps
- OMG modelling standards
- Facilitating requirements workshops
- Correlating models to project type and deliverables
Capturing the multidimensional aspects of an organisation
- Applying the five Ws approach: who, what, where, when, why and how
- Selecting the right level of detail
- Employing CASE tools and simulation
Mapping the Business Landscape
Analysing the enterprise
- Exploring the enterprise architecture
- Decomposing the architecture into its components: business, technology and other perspectives
Applying business rules
- Documenting the constraints: operative and structural
- Representing operative rules with decision tables
Scoping Business Functions
Initiating the process with functional decomposition
- Determining the functional hierarchies
- Distinguishing between functions and processes
Drawing UML use case diagrams
- Defining scope and boundary
- Identifying the actors and stakeholders
- Refining the use cases
Documenting business use cases
- Selecting the level of detail: brief, casual or fully dressed
- Specifying preconditions and postconditions
Modelling Business Processes
Applying process modelling techniques
- Workflows
- Events
- Activities
- Decisions
- Sequencing
- Messaging
- Participants
Leveraging Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)
- Benefits from a standardised approach
- Sequencing and classifying activities
- Decomposing activities into subprocesses and tasks
- Categorising events
Refining business process diagrams
- Choosing the right gateway: decisions, forks and joins
- Mapping the processes to swimlanes and pools
- Supplementing the model with artifacts: data objects, groups and annotations
Analysing the Enterprise Structure
Establishing the business domain
- Documenting the workers and organisation units
- Modelling systems, documents, information and tools
Structuring the enterprise with UML class diagrams
- Determining object attributes
- Generalising and specialising relationships
- Constructing associations between the classes
- Packaging for domains and functional units
Finalising the Business Model
Achieving complete coverage with matrices
- Prioritising features
- Cross-referencing requirements
- Applying the Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Contextualising the model with perspectives
- Documenting business interfaces
- Mapping from means into ends
- Capturing time parameters
- Specifying Supplementary and Quality of Service requirements
Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders
- Choosing the right models for your audience
- Transforming business models into user requirements
- Delivering and presenting your models
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