End-to-End BA Workshop

BA107 - End-to-End BA Workshop

Course description
Students play out the BA role over an iteratively managed, end-to-end IT project, employing the full spectrum of Business Analysis skills and techniques learned in the BA program. Students step through a complex case study, employing business and system use case analysis, object modeling, data warehousing, activity diagramming and other essential BA skills, chronologically, as they would need to use them over the course of a real project. The student also learns how to employ the popular CASE tool, Rational ROSE and the UML standard over the project life cycle to assist in BA activities.

Who should attend


Business Analysts and their managers

Systems Analysts and programmers interested in expanding their role into the business area.

Prerequisites
This workshop is directed primarily towards students who have completed the rest of the BUCEC Business Analyst certificate program.

What you will achieve

• Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:


• Facilitate and act as analyst for a JAD Session at the start of a project, making effective use of business use cases and workflow modeling (activity diagrams, etc.) to define end-to-end business processes and consolidate the viewpoints of stakeholders.


• Create architectural deliverables (Role Maps, Packages, etc.) early in the project to standardized how project-wide issues will be treated throughout the rest of the lifecycle.


• Break up a project effectively into system use cases, employing advanced use case features (inclusions, extensions, etc.)


• Create the project class diagram, describing system-wide business rules for essential business objects.


• Conduct group and one-on-one interviews using use case analysis to discover and document business workflow rules.


• Create textual use case documentation that clearly and effectively describes user requirements using state-of-the-art writing techniques and use case templates.


• Ensure uniformity in the Business Requirements Document by verifying use case text against class diagrams to ensure that business rules are uniformly complied with.


• Facilitate a structured walkthrough to verify requirements with stakeholders.


• Link use case documentation to the object model, state transition diagrams and other deliverables.


• Use decision tables and activity diagrams to enhance the value of use case text.


• Use Six Sigma tools and techniques to perform Quality Assurance.


• Create a test plan for a project.


• Define test cases making effective use of testing techniques such as boundary value analysis, use case scenario testing, system tests and decision tables.


• Use the Rational ROSE CASE tool to create class, use case, activity, state, collaboration and sequence diagrams.