ADVANCED BUSINESS ANALYSIS

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Course Description

This workshop uses a case study to help you explore two standard approaches to conceptual modeling: the Unified Modeling Language and Information Engineering. It is designed to be prescriptive as well as descriptive. This means that best practice will be emphasized through explanation and application. You will discover what should be done as well as how to do it, and why.
3 Days
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Prerequisites

Six months or more of practical business analysis experience. Familiarity with software systems analysis, design, and implementation is also recommended.

UML Overview

Why Modeling Is Important
Key Abstractions
Now for the hard question: is a system reality, or is it a description of reality?
Well-formed Requirements
SMART Requirements
Requirement Types
Requirements Traceability
Requirements and the SDLC
The Use Case
Object Orientation
Requirement Types
Requirement Identifier Scheme
Model Element Naming Convention
Change Control System.

UML Language Basics

Syntax and Semantics
Visualizing
The Software System Perspectives of the UML

The Building Blocks

Things
Class
New CSOC Requirements Specification (excerpt)
New CSOC out-of-scope items
New IMS Requirements Specification (excerpt
Object
Message
Sequence
Sequence Diagram
Use Case
Graphical Use Case
Textual Use Case

Model Analysis

Enterprise Analysis Methodology
Akmee CommuncationsProject Charter
Business Use-Case Model Refinement
Activity Diagram

System Views

The UML System Architecture Viewpoints
The History of the UML
The Boundary Between Conceptual and Technical Design

Use Cases – Everything You Always Wanted to Know

Actor-Action Modeling
Scenarios

Conceptual Data Models

The Principle of Abstraction
Information Engineering

Logical Data Models

Drilling Down From the Conceptual Model Level
Requirements Traceability From the Data Perspective
Data Model Views

Normalization

Data Model Quality
Normalization Tests
Functional Dependence and Primary Keys
First Normal Form
Second Normal Form
Third Normal Form
Fourth Normal Form
Clear Thinking About Data
Quality Assurance
Entity Rules
Attribute Rules
Primary Key Rules
Relationship Rules

Comparing and Contrasting the UML and IE

Gen-Spec Models for Classes and Entities