Capability Modeling
Overview
This is an on-line course taught live by one of our senior consultants from our state of the art video-conferencing facility.
Eliciting Business Requirements (EBR) is a complete 10-hour course held in three 3 ½ hour sessions over three days.
EBR is based on IAG’s extremely popular flagship course on business analysis. It is an applied course that focuses on the most critical aspect of requirements and business analysis: eliciting, modeling and defining business requirements with the business stakeholders.
Type
Instructor-Led
Target
Business Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Project Leads
Pre-requisite
None
Duration
3 – 3½ hour (morning or afternoon) sessions over 3 days
Credits
9 PDU’s/CDU’s
Popularity
4½ Stars
Rate
$1,299 USD (45% less early-bird discount if applicable)
Dates
June 14-16
Purpose
To learn in-depth, practical techniques to gather, analyze and document business requirements
Following the learning methods and course design that is so popular with IAG’s clients, participants learn specific tips, precise steps to follow, techniques to use, questions to ask, and templates to fill out.
Each day covers specific modules addressing the essentials of discovering and describing use cases, process flows, data flows, data definitions, functional and non-functional requirements and business rules: All the critical skills and techniques for eliciting requirements from their subject matter experts. For more information on our on-line virtual training click here.
Participants are also given exercises to complete which are reviewed in-class. All registered attendees are also given access to an online class workspace to obtain course materials, checklists, handouts, exercises, and to share inforamation and discuss topics with classmates.
The course teaches a very practical systematic approach to requirements elicitation, analysis and definition. This is a proven, effective, real world approach that will enable a defined and consistent method that is easily learned and easily applied.
DAY 1
- The Software Development Life Cycle and The Requirements Discovery Process
- Verifying the project objectives and product scope
- How to discover & describe business use cases
- The different forms of use cases
- Describing a high-level business use cases: six essential steps
- Introducing the end-of-day assignment exercise
DAY 2
- Review and exercise take-up
- Writing detailed use case steps
- Data flow diagramming
- Process flow modeling
- Data modeling fundamentals for the Business Analyst
- Introducing the end-of-day assignment exercise
DAY 3
- Review and exercise take-up
- How to determine and document functional requirements
- How to harvest & document the business rules
- How to determine and document non-functional requirements
- Interactive requirements writing exercise
- Summary, closing remarks, Q&A, obtaining certification credits
- How to use the right elicitation techniques, models, steps and questions appropriate for the various stakeholder groups (users, senior management, non-technical, business subject-matter-experts, detail oriented, high-level, etc.)
- Understand the critical success factors for a requirements meeting including setting expectations, using a systematic process and questioning techniques, using visual modeling, keeping the meeting focused, using business language
- Identify clients’ business needs easily, without needing to be a subject matter expert
- How to work directly and interactively with business clients in defining project requirements
- Conduct fast and efficient analysis – maximizing the time and resources of the company
- How to apply industry best practices for discovering, describing and documenting requirements for various projects (new development, maintenance and package) and in various environments (iterative, incremental and waterfall)
- Identify true user requirements versus “nice-to-have”
- How to organize and model the information requirements into business objects and data elements
- Learn the steps, questions and techniques for business process and data modeling – using such tools as context diagramming, use-case modeling, data flow diagramming, functional narratives, process modeling, data descriptions, entity relationship diagrams)
- How to analyze client business requirements and produce requirement specifications
- Complete a business requirement specification that’s ready for design, development or sourcing software
| Business Analysis Competencies | Coverage | Objective |
| Analytical & Systems Thinking |
S/I |
A |
| Change Leadership |
M/I |
A |
| Requirements Planning |
M/I |
A |
| Requirements Elicitation & Analysis |
I/D |
SD |
| Requirements Management |
I/I |
U |
| Client Relationship Management |
M/I |
A |
| Consensus & Agreement Building |
M/I |
U |
| Professional Knowledge |
M/I |
A |
| Modeling |
I/D |
SD |
| Communication |
I/D |
SD |
| Self-Management |
M/I |
A |
| Teamwork |
M/I |
A |
| Leadership |
S/I |
A |
LEGEND
| Coverage | |
| I/D | In-depth, Direct |
| I/I | In-depth, Indirect |
| M/D | Moderate. Direct |
| M/I | Moderate, Indirect |
| S/D | Some. Direct |
| S/I | Some, Indirect |
| N/A | Not Addressed |
| Objective | |
| SD | Skill Development |
| U | Understanding |
| A | Awareness |
1. Click here. You will be directed to our e-store.
a) Select the course and class dates
b) Enter the participant name and email address
c) Add to shopping cart
d) Repeat for additional participants
e) Select the Personalized Exercise Review option if desired
f) Checkout and make payment via Visa, MasterCard or Amex
2. You will receive a series of email confirming your payment and with instructions and form to complete your registration
a) If applicable, complete the form to choose the AM or PM session for each of the days
b) Sign on to the class workspace to receive the course materials
c) Follow instructions to test audio and video quality prior to the session. (note: a headset with microphone is required)
3. If you have any questions at any time call of email us.