Business Analysis school training courses in Dallas, 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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You Will Learn How To

Identify, create and distribute knowledge using Knowledge Management (KM) best practices
Establish criteria for applying KM solutions
Create knowledge assets from personal expertise, events and other key sources
Analyze and build communities of practice to contribute and share knowledge
Apply a comprehensive KM strategy that leverages the cultural values of your organization
Evaluate the success of a KM project to maintain effectiveness

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