202 Business Requirements Modeling - Three Days

Many organizations today realize the importance of understanding and documenting the fundamental business rules of the organization prior to beginning the system design process. This course lays the groundwork for undertaking this very challenge. It reviews a proven approach along with the UML modeling concepts and project deliverables used to identify and document business object requirements. It is complemented by our visual modeling software, Metastorm ProVision. Our accelerated approach to business requirements has been proven on hundreds of projects in dozens of industries. The successful completion of 101 Business Process Modeling is a prerequisite for this class.

Project Scope
Regardless of the techniques used to model your business, the boundaries must first be established. Without a clear definition of boundaries, projects invariably get off track. This course shows you how to clearly identify the correct topics to cover in your analysis, identify the correct project participants, and size the project accurately.

Business Requirements
The structure of your business can be defined as a set of interacting business objects. A business object is simply an item of interest to the business. In this class, you learn how to identify objects about which your business records facts, objects on which your business acts (manipulates in some way), and objects that carry out some function for your business. You also build UML use case, business class, subtype, statechart, and activity (workflow) models that describe both the structure and behavior of your business objects.

Business Requirements Project
After understanding the nature and purpose of business models, you can begin to understand how experienced practitioners go about developing them. By studying real-life examples, you practice each step in the analysis process as you produce a complete business object requirements deliverable within Metastorm ProVision.

Who Should Attend?

• Business analysts responsible for detailing business process requirements in terms of a set of business objects with states (data) and behavior (processing capability).
• Systems analysts responsible for architecting system artifacts that support those detailed business requirements.
• Managers responsible for business and systems analysts who utilize the concepts covered in the class.