In this Business Modeling and Use Cases course students will learn industry accepted techniques to create use cases and model business solutions to reach agreement on the best system solution.The business needs must be communicated in a way that supports business user validation as well as providing the foundation for the technical staff to design and build a successful solution.
 

Upon completion of the Business Modeling and Use Cases course, students will be able to:

• Communicate in a way that supports business user validation
• Create use cases and model business solutions to reach agreement on the best system solution

Business Modeling

• Learn the many types of business models and how to use them to describe the business
• Business Process Improvements vs. Business Process Reengineering
• Create business descriptions using a SIPOC model

Effective Use Cases Modeling

• Model the business using Use Cases
• Develop a Use Case diagram and a context diagram
• User Stories, appropriate levels and naming Use Cases

Requirements elicitation with business models and Use Cases

• Focus questions
• Discover actors and events
• Learn primary and secondary flows

Advanced Use Case discussions

• Linking use cases
• Sequence diagrams
• Using Use Cases to assist in testing
• Includes and extends relationships
• When to use Business Process approach vs. Use Cases

• Professionals who are involved in defining and managing systems development projects and have mastered the fundamentals of business analysis curriculum.
• Business customers, users, project managers, systems architects and information professionals that are interested in modeling business processes.

No certification available.

Business Analysis Foundations, High Quality Requirements or equivalent experience.