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This is one in a series of courses that focus on the phases of The Requirements Discovery Process. This course is intended to take the participant through a process of discovering, describing and documenting your client’s business objectives. Establishing high quality objectives is essential to the success of your project. If you don’t set specific, measurable, achievable, results oriented and time-bounded objectives, how will you ever determine the success of your project? On the surface, setting project objectives seems to be a straight-forward exercise - one that is often taken for granted, overlooked or simply ignored. Establishing high-quality objectives is an essential component to the success of your project. If you do not set specific, measurable, achievable, results-oriented and time-bounded objectives, how will you know if your project is successful? This course is intended to help you do just this.

The descriptions of key business processes that you create during this phase of your project provide the context for all work that follows. For the requirements team, breaking the system into activities helps to focus discussions on smaller areas. For your business partners, it is easy to achieve consensus and buy-in at an activity level. For the project manager, organizing the system into activities allows the project manager to identify cohesive work packages. The detail gathered at this stage enhances the product description and confirms the project scope. For the design team, this discussion of business process at an activity level ensures the integration of the functional and data requirements and provides the basis for the software system specifications. And finally, for testers, activity descriptions provide the basis for meaningful test scripts that reflect actual business usage.

This course is intended to take the participant through a process of describing and documenting the scope of your project. Scope defines what is, and is not, part of our system. The course teaches techniques to identify the in and out-of-scope business activities, objects, interfaces and variations as a fundamental first step to scoping the product functionality. Elicitation methods are covered that involve subject matter experts and representatives from other systems and departments. The discussion of scope also introduces the project team to methods of modeling the high-level scope and ensuring an appropriate level of detail is specified that will enable a fast and accurate start to a project. And we’ll be applying best practices along the way so that your definition of scope will contribute to the definition of business requirements that conform to industry best practices standard deliverables.

This is one in a series of courses that focus on the phases of The Requirements Discovery Process. This course is intended to take the participant through a process of describing and documenting business information or data needs for your project, regardless of the corporate system development methodology, or technical platform implementation. For those who are relatively new to data modeling concepts, we have simplified the rules of normalization and business rules that give you a jump-start on your next project. If you are more experienced in data modeling, you will see the ease of obtaining the object definition, relationships, cardinality and modality from your clients which enable you to build a solid conceptual data model, based on true business needs. Additionally, you'll have the context for data usage for each business process. And we'll be applying best practices along the way so that the resulting requirements you specify will conform to industry best practices.

This is one in a series of courses that focus on the phases of The Requirements Discovery Process. This course is intended to take the participant through a process of discovering, describing and documenting your client's business requirements completely, accurately and consistently regardless of your subsequent system development efforts. This means that whether you are specifying these requirements for a web-enabled application, object-oriented, client-server, legacy system or a combination, true functional business requirements are independent of technology. This is beneficial because you won't need to go back and change the business requirements as the technology changes (which is often). And we'll be applying best practices along the way so that the resulting business requirements you specify will conform to industry best practices in this particular area.

This course is intended to take the participant through the aspects of capturing and documenting Business Requirements completely, accurately and consistently regardless of your subsequent system development efforts. In fact, the skills that you will learn in this course can be used to capture discussions that are completely unrelated to developing systems. Whether you are an experienced analyst, or new to the field, at the end of this course you will be able to: walk into any requirements meeting and synthesize the information from your subject matter experts and document their true business requirements in the context of how they are needed; compose business requirements that are clear, concise, complete and unambiguous that any developer or client and others can understand and use; and organize and package the requirements in a deliverable or work product quickly and use it as the source for subsequent development, RFP or build/buy decisions.

Industry gurus such as Inmon and Kimball have recognized that the models and methods to design a Data Warehouse are unique and different than traditional data modeling practices. This course covers the How-To's of performing quality business requirements analysis for data warehousing projects. Identify, validate and document your Client's Requirements for a Data Warehouse, Data Mart or Decision Support System with confidence Ensure that raw business data harvested from legacy transaction processing systems and other data sources is transformed into powerful Business Intelligence Learn the latest practical techniques & best practices for specifying DW systems Work directly and interactively with business clients in defining project requirements Finally, there exists proven and practical techniques - which can be easily applied to your DW projects - to gather and prepare quality specifications for Data Warehouses, Data Marts and Decision Support Systems.

This program is geared towards the serious Business Analyst and organizations that desire a recognized professional designation in the area of Business Analysis. Consisting of 8-courses it complements and tests your current business analysis competencies. At the end of each course the candidate is required to pass that course’s specific exam. All eight courses must be successfully completed to be considered for graduation. Once the candidate successfully completes the program requirements (where an individual course certificate is generated), submission of those ‘proofs of completion’ must then be sent to the InQuestra corporate office. The Registrar will validate the application and, if approved, an official “Business Systems Analyst Certificate” returned to the graduate. The graduate has then earned the right to affix the BSAC initials to business cards, resumes and other documentation where applicable.

This is a true workshop to develop the skills of new and experienced trainers. Small classes and customized to the needs of your trainers. Custom and delivered at your location. Call 800- 610-8170 or email us at solutions@taylorperformance.com