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Overview:

This two day course covers the essential aspects of Information modeling required by Business Analysts involved in specifying business requirements.

Name  Data Modeling for BAs (DM) 
Duration  Two (2) days
Type  Instructor-led 
Target  Business Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Project Leads 
Rating  4 stars 
Purpose  For BA to learn practical techniques for data modeling
Pre-req none

 

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Course Content:

  • Data Modeling Fundamentals
    Conceptual, Logical & Physical Models
    Entity-Relationship Modeling
    Multi-dimensional Modeling
  • Conceptual Data Modeling for Business Requirements
    Discovering and Describing Entities and Attributes
    Entity-Relationship Diagramming
    Aligning with the Enterprise Data Definitions
  • Logical Data Modeling for Detailed Business Requirements
    Data Attribution: Normalization theory explained and simplified
    Extending the Data Dictionary
    Entity Life-Cycle Analysis and State Diagramming
    Verifying the Logical Data Model
    Validating with the Enterprise Data Definitions

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the objectives and principles Data Modeling
  • Learn very practical business analysis techniques for data modeling
  • Understanding the differences between Conceptual, Logical & Physical Models
  • Learn how to apply the fundamental constructs of data modeling needed by a BA, including:
  1. the identification of entity types (concrete, reference, activity and agreement);
  2. how and why to easily define data relationships;
  3. metadata definition (description, optionality, cardinality, business rules, etc.);
  4. simplified data attribution techniques for BA's that drastically simplifies normalization theory to just what a BA needs to know.