Business System Analysis

Day 1:

Introduction to Business Systems Analysis

• The role of the business systems analyst

• The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• The business systems analysis process

• Identifying system users and other stakeholders

• Defining the system scope

• Creating a business case

Day 2:

Modeling the Business

• An introduction to modeling concepts

• The Architecture Framework

• Modeling data requirements

• Business process modeling for business systems analysis

Day 3:

Modeling the Business (Continued)

• Writing and modeling use cases

• Modeling the location dimension

• Modeling organizations, people and roles

• Analyzing business and time events

• Discovering and documenting business rules

Day 4:

Gathering Information

• Communication for business systems analysts

• Interviewing methods

• Using questionnaires

• Document analysis and observation

• Workshop facilitation using Joint Application Design (JAD) techniques

• Eliciting and capturing requirements in workshops

Day 5:

Preparing a Business Requirements Specification

• Functional and non-functional requirements

• Writing effective requirements

• Validating requirements

• The content of a business requirements specification

• Deal with Flow charts and how it works.