Business System Analysis
Management & Leadership
INTRODUCTION
Business Systems
Analysis is the elicitation, analysis and specification of the logical
requirements from business perspectives, and is seamlessly integrated and
organized around a model-driven analysis framework in order to design and build
or procure effective computer-based business systems.
This Business System Analysis training course
provides the critical thinking skills, conceptual knowledge and best practices
to rapidly discover, analyze and specify business and user requirements.
Participants will gain knowledge of the right approaches, tasks and techniques
to define the requirements for business system projects. They will learn about
gathering business requirements from users and other stakeholders; analyzing
and communicating these requirements; creating models and use cases that describe
the requirements; defining business rules and requirements specifications to
communicate them to solution developers.
This training course
will help potential systems analysts to create and design system processes
which will help a company to achieve success. They will also explore a broad
spectrum of current techniques that can be used to ensure that systems are
comprehensively described and correctly defined.
Objectives
At the end of this
training course, you will learn to:
Understand the Role of
the Business Systems Analyst, the Systems Development Life and How the System
Scope is defined
Understand the
importance of system stakeholders and their goals
Plan, conduct, and
follow up on a structured investigative interview
Produce a use case
diagram and a detailed use case description
Define System Actor
Goals and Convert these to Use Cases
Write Effective
Business Rules
Document Functional
and Non-functional Business Requirements
Compile the desirable
contents of a Business Requirements Specification.
Organisational Impact
Reduced information
technology development risk, costs and time overruns
Improved integration
of information technology projects with business needs
Improved communication
between the business and the information technology department of the
organisation
The correct fit
between the requirements of the organisation and information systems that are
developed or procured
Personal Impact
This training program
will provide you with a basic fluency and literacy in a number of core issues
that involve business system analysis so that you are better equipped to manage
the opportunities and challenges it presents.
Specifically,
participants will:
Work more effectively
in or with a systems development project
Have the ability to
gather elicit business requirements from users
Be able to
comprehensively identify the requirements of the business
Effectively
communicate business requirements to developers.
Course Outline
Day 1
Introduction to
Business Systems Analysis
Understanding the
Business Environment
The Role of the
Business Analysis within the System Development Cycle
Alternative Approaches
to Business Systems Analysis
Starting a Systems
Development Project
Identifying System
Users and Other Stakeholders
Creating a Vision
Statement
Defining the System
Scope
Day 2
Modelling the System
An Introduction to
Systems Modelling Concepts
Enterprise
Architecture Modelling
Normalization
Modelling the System
Context
System Scope Modelling
Use Case Modelling
Modelling Information
Requirements
Day 3
Gathering and
Communicating Requirements
Planning, Conducting,
and Following-up a Structured Investigative Interview
Surveys and
Questionnaires
Document Analysis and
Observation
Interface Analysis
Random Sampling
Day 4
Writing Effective Use
Cases
Gathering User Stories
Defining Actors and
Actor Goals
Converting Actor Goals
to Use Cases
Documenting Detailed
Use Case Descriptions
Refactoring Use Cases
Maintaining the Data
Dictionary
Day 5
Developing a Business
Requirements Specification
Value of Effective
Requirements
Gathering and Writing
Business Rules
Documenting Functional
and Non-functional Requirements
Preparing the
Specification
Verifying and Validating Requirements
Presenting Your
Requirements Specification.