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Business Analysis

Course duration: 5 days

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Business analysis is the discovering, modelling and specification of the logical requirements of a business in order to design and build effective business solutions.

Business analysis requires specialised knowledge and skills. The process of identifying and defining business requirements is very different from applying technology to address business requirements.

Participants will gain knowledge of the best techniques and methods for gathering requirements from users and other stakeholders; develop business and data models that describe these requirements and write detailed specifications that provide an accurate blueprint for the designing, building and testing of the proposed system. They will also learn how business analysis techniques can be related and integrated using the Architecture Framework to ensure that all the requirements are comprehensively described and correctly defined.

Mapping to the IIBA™ Body of Knowledge

Viewpoint Training and Consulting is an endorsed education provider of the IIBA™. This course supports understanding of the following Knowledge Areas and Underlying Fundamentals as defined by version 1.6 of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®), released in July 2006:

  • Enterprise Analysis
  • Requirements Planning and Management
  • Requirements Elicitation
  • Requirements Analysis and Documentation
  • Requirements Communication
  • Requirements Implementation
  • Business Knowledge
  • IT Knowledge

Who Should Attend

Business and Systems Analysts, Business Experts, Business Managers, Enterprise Architects, Project Leaders, Systems Development Team Members and Information Technology Professionals.

Course Content

Module 1: Introduction to Business Analysis

  • The role of the business analyst

  • The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

  • The business analysis process

  • Defining the system scope

  • Creating a business case

Module 2: Gathering Information

  • Identifying system stakeholders

  • Interviewing methods

  • Using questionnaires

  • Document analysis and observation

  • Workshop facilitation using Joint Application Design (JAD) techniques

Module 3: Modelling the Business

  • An introduction to modelling concepts

  • The Architecture Framework

  • Modelling data requirements

  • Business process modelling 

  • Writing use cases

  • Modelling the location dimension

  • Modelling organisations, people and roles

  • Analysing business and time events

  • Discovering and documenting business rules

Module 4: Preparing a Business Requirements Specification

  • Writing functional requirements

  • Documenting non-functional requirements

  • The content of a business requirements specification

  • Structuring the specification

  • Writing the specification

  • Validating and presenting the requirements

  • Testing requirements using test cases

Practical work using the methods is done throughout the course.

Primary Outcome

The primary outcome of the course is to prepare comprehensive business models and a requirements specification that can be used by developers to design and build effective information systems.

Dates, Venue, Times and Fee

Dates:  6 - 10 September 2010

Venue: Benvenuto Conference Centre, 1 Pitsani Rd, Kelland, Randburg, Johannesburg. Map to Benvenuto

Times: 08h30 –16h00

Fee: R15,390.00 per delegate including VAT. The fee includes course notes, lunches and refreshments.

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