course overview
Overview
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Understand the BA role on a Data Warehousing project and how to transition from relational transaction databases to a data warehouse.
Learn how to use static, structural analysis techniques to model a business domain. This is a hands-on practical workshop in using class diagrams, data models and other structural modeling diagrams to describe business requirements for an IT system. You will step through a complex real-life case study, learning at what points to develop and verify portions of the model. You will learn how to use structural analysis 'live' during interviews to define business concepts and objects and capture definitional business rules and, later, how to use the structural model to verify use cases in the behavioral model. Trainees also learn how and when to convert class diagrams to ERDs (Entity Relationship Diagrams).
Audience
Data Base Administrators, Systems Analysts, Data Modelers expanding their role into the Business Analysis area
Skills Gained
Unambiguous documentation is produced by conforming to the UML guidelines widely accepted and understood by developers.
1. Focus on Business Analysis: Unlike many other courses in object and data modeling, this is not a course in design for developers. Our course is focused squarely on the needs of the Business Analyst, clearly explaining where and how object and data modeling benefits the gathering and documenting of business requirements by the BA. Developers looking to expand into the BA role will also gain value from this course, as they learn how to apply UML techniques to the requirements gathering “front-end” of a project.2. Integration with use cases: We teach the trainee exactly how to integrate these modeling techniques with use-case analysis. Trainees learn at what steps during use case analysis to create structural models and how the models fit into use case documentation.3. Scenario-based training: Rather than present this discipline academically, by subject area, we walk the trainee through the modeling of a practical case study. The trainee learns not only what to do, but when to use each technique during the course of a project. We find this approach greatly enhances the ability of trainees to apply what they've learned in the workplace.4. Hands-on tool experience (when requested): Trainees gain hands-on experience with an object-oriented modeling tool (Rational Rose, etc.), with the kind of BA perspective on the tool's use that can only be provided by an organization devoted to BA training.
Prerequisites
none
2 days
Outline
Unambiguous documentation is produced by conforming to the UML guidelines widely accepted and understood by developers.
1. Focus on Business Analysis: Unlike many other courses in object and data modeling, this is not a course in design for developers. Our course is focused squarely on the needs of the Business Analyst, clearly explaining where and how object and data modeling benefits the gathering and documenting of business requirements by the BA. Developers looking to expand into the BA role will also gain value from this course, as they learn how to apply UML techniques to the requirements gathering “front-end” of a project.2. Integration with use cases: We teach the trainee exactly how to integrate these modeling techniques with use-case analysis. Trainees learn at what steps during use case analysis to create structural models and how the models fit into use case documentation.3. Scenario-based training: Rather than present this discipline academically, by subject area, we walk the trainee through the modeling of a practical case study. The trainee learns not only what to do, but when to use each technique during the course of a project. We find this approach greatly enhances the ability of trainees to apply what they've learned in the workplace.4. Hands-on tool experience (when requested): Trainees gain hands-on experience with an object-oriented modeling tool (Rational Rose, etc.), with the kind of BA perspective on the tool's use that can only be provided by an organization devoted to BA training.
If you need training for 3 or more people, you should ask us about onsite training. Putting aside the obvious location benefit, content can be customised to better meet your business objectives and more can be covered than in a public classroom. Its a cost effective option. One on one training can be delivered too, at reasonable rates.
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SPVC = Self Paced Virtual Class
LVC = Live Virtual Class
Our clients have included prestigious national organisations such as Oxford University Press, multi-national private corporations such as JP Morgan and HSBC, as well as public sector institutions such as the Department of Defence and the Department of Health.
