Business Analysis school training courses in Austin, TX (public, in-house or online)

This class presents an up-to-date, practical guide to use case writing. The class expands on the classic treatment of use cases to provide software developers with a "nuts-and-bolts" tutorial for writing. The course thoroughly covers introductory, intermediate, and advanced concepts in use case development. During the class the instructor will use examples of both good and bad use cases to reinforce the student’s learning.

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I. Introduction and Overview
A. The software industry today: the state and quality of the ark
B. Software quality challenges and expectations
C. Software engineering and SQA: definitions and key components
D. Structured vs. traditional software development and enhancement and Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
E. The systems development life cycle: steps or phases and results
F. The tools, techniques and methods of SQA
G. Productivity and SQA...

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I. Overview of BA role

II. Introduction to Modeling

III. Overview of the most common system development methodologies (SDLCs)

IV. How modeling supports the SDLCs

V. Business Process Improvement, Re-engineering and modeling

VI. Context Models

VII. Process Models
A. Business Rules
B. Decision Trees / Tables
C. Event and Trigger Identification
D. SIPOC Business Models
E. Functional Decomposition Diagram
F. Workflow ...

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1 Overview
1.1 BA Responsibilities
1.2 Communications
1.2.1 Information distribution
1.2.2 Communications styles
1.3 Documentation strategy

2 Requirements Gathering
2.1 Levels of requirements on a project
2.2 Identifying needs vs. wants
2.3 Techniques for gathering requirements
2.3.1 Interviewing
2.3.2 Prototyping
2.3.3 Use Cases
2.3.4 Collaborative Workshops
2.3.5 Work Breakdown Structure
2.3.6 ...

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This course teaches participants the overall process of business analysis and where it fits in the bigger picture of project life cycle and the business context. The course is interactive and combines discussion, active workshops, and demonstrations of techniques. The goal is bottom-line results that cut through the real-world problems facing people seeking to improve the way they operate to develop new and improved systems and products or otherwise deliver results through project performance. <...

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