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.