Duration
4 days
Overview
This BASA course will illustrate to you the importance of analysis and modelling skills that will give you the competitive advantage in managing successful IT Projects.
What is modelling?
Think of the ubiquitous spreadsheet (eg MS Office Excel). It is used by almost everyone to do "what-if" analysis on numbers. For example, "What if I increase my selling price by five percent; will this result in higher or lower expected profits?" We just don't normally think of the task as modeling.
Business analysis also perform "what-if", although it will require a lot more tools and techniques other than the spreadsheet. How do you know that you have considered most, if not all, the user requirements - especially if they did not tell you most of it? Modeling! We need to be able to ask, and to answer, questions like "What if we put this application on the cloud; in what way will our systems need to change?" or "If we go ahead with the proposed change in company policy, what work is required by IT, and what is the impact on the company’s business operations in terms of people and bottom-line?".
This sort of ability taught in the course will make you very comfortable in dealing with senior management and cross-department colleagues because you can now provide them with quick answers to their questions. And you too can ask the right questions at the right time.
Business Systems Models are representations of various aspects of the business, both IT-enabled and manual,that allow us to test out alternative answers to these types of questions, safely and quickly. As an IT professional, or a business change leader (e.g. Project Manager), you will be able to increase your effectiveness many folds, by knowing,
and applying the main system modeling techniques taught in the BASA2 course.
All the modeling techniques taught are Best-practice, mainstream, used and proven over many years by people, organisations and methodologies.
This training course will also cover the road map for IT Project life cycle and where BASA2 fits in the ITP Project life cycle.
Course Content
This course is completely revamped for 2012, taking into account the best of the old and new, to get you up to speed as quickly as possible.
What models are?
How to tell if it is a living model or just a diagram.
The Zachman Framework.
The total range of information that is possible, for any complex system
The Secret - What they never told you at university.
Differences and similarities between Business Analysis and Systems Analysis
Entity and Data Models
Process Models
Event Timing Models
Object Oriented Models, Use Cases, Class Diagrams
Service Oriented Approaches
Coordinating Analysis and Project Management Governance issues and your role as a BA/SA.
The OBASHI methodology
Discovering relationships between Owner, Business, Application System, Hardware and Infrastructure.
Creating Blueprints for Corporate Mission and Vision statements
How to define your role in your organisation and how to help your organisation to improve interdepartmental coordination.
Outsourcing decisions and planning
Improving Process Improvement capabilities & Quality improvement and management
Identifying Risk and Security issues, Audit and Control issues
Moving from Analysis to Design, and other parts of your SDLC. The place of analysis in different kinds of standards and methodologies, e.g. ITIL®, PRINCE2®, Agile, SCRUM, TOGAF™ etc.
Case studies from different industries.
Documentation the realistic and effective way.
Requirements Specification. Enterprise and Solution Architectures.
Where to look for opportunities.
Communicating with management and other Stakeholders
Case Study
The formal presentation is confirmed and reinforced throughout the course by practical work. Each major technique is practised by exercises which delegates complete individually or in pairs. On each day of the course, delegates, working in syndicates of three or four, apply the techniques learned to a project. Participants are encouraged to bring real life projects for the CASE studies.
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.