Business Analysis and Requirements Gathering Blitz

The job of a business analyst is to determine what is wrong with the way things work today and to define what should change to make life easier for the end user. Business analysts, requirements analysts, and other job titles describe people who need to be obsessed with understanding how business processes, information, and technology interact.

This "fire–hose" workshop is a time-compressed program presenting the most commonly used techniques for analyzing business processes and technology solutions to define quality business requirements. The evolving role of business and systems analysts is explained. Current information gathering and documentation techniques from the effective use of JAR/JAD sessions to the concepts of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) are introduced.

Define the evolving role of today’s business analyst
Identify the critical skills required by business analysts
Organize questions, issues and assumptions efficiently
Write clear, easy-to-understand problem statements
Plan and conduct effective requirements-gathering interviews
Prepare, perform and follow up problem and requirements interviews
Describe how to use the six types of requirements gathering workshop sessions
Use 10 Critical Questions to guide the requirements gathering process
Determine the most appropriate methodology based on project parameters
Discuss the impact of Rapid Development techniques on requirements gathering
Use process models to identify business process problems
Locate timing conflicts and anomalies
List error and exception process impacts
Communicate the operation of the business processes to other business personnel
Identify process measurements to evaluate initial improvement
Assess the potential impact the UML will have on business analysis
List the Unified Modeling Language (UML) models that business analysts need
Write a "good" business system requirement
Distinguish between business requirements and system specifications
Extract requirements from a management vision statement
Create business requirements from problem statements
Develop requirements based on business events and responses
Decompose requirements into 5 major types and their subtypes
Use business requirements to define test cases

ILT: 4 days
Virtual: 0 Mods

Business Analysts
Business Process Managers
Business Process Users
End-User Representatives
Subject Matter Experts
System Analysts
Anyone involved in defining or analyzing business system requirements.