Introduction

Business systems analysis involves identifying, modeling, and specifying business requirements to design effective solutions. This program equips participants with essential skills to gather stakeholder requirements, develop business and data models, and write detailed system specifications. Learn to integrate analysis techniques using the Architecture Framework, ensuring comprehensive and accurate system development.

Objectives

• Understand the role of the business systems analyst

• Understand the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Define the system scope

• Identify system stakeholders

• Create a business case

• Understand and apply The Architecture Framework

• Model the business across all its dimensions: data, activities, locations, people, time and motivation

• Apply information gathering techniques

• Define functional and non-functional business requirements

• Write a business requirements specification

Target Audience

This program is designed for:

• Business Systems Analysts
• Systems Analysts and IT Analysts
• Business Analysts and Requirements Engineers
• Software Developers and Solution Architects
• IT Project Managers and Project Coordinators
• Enterprise Architects and Systems Designers
• Product Owners and Product Managers
• Quality Assurance and Testing Professionals involved in requirements validation
• Business Process Analysts and Improvement Specialists
• IT Consultants working on system development projects
• Professionals seeking to strengthen skills in requirements gathering, business modeling, and system specification

Outlines

Day 1: Introduction to Business Systems Analysis

• The role of the business systems analyst

• The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• The business systems analysis process

• Identifying system users and other stakeholders

• Defining the system scope

• Creating a business case

Day 2: Modeling the Business

• An introduction to modeling concepts

• The Architecture Framework

• Modeling data requirements

• Business process modeling for business systems analysis

Day 3: Modeling the Business (Continued)

• Writing and modeling use cases

• Modeling the location dimension

• Modeling organizations, people and roles

• Analyzing business and time events

• Discovering and documenting business rules

Day 4: Gathering Information

• Communication for business systems analysts

• Interviewing methods

• Using questionnaires

• Document analysis and observation

• Workshop facilitation using Joint Application Design (JAD) techniques

• Eliciting and capturing requirements in workshops

Day 5: Preparing a Business Requirements Specification

• Functional and non-functional requirements

• Writing effective requirements

• Validating requirements

• The content of a business requirements specification