Course description

Model and Document Your Project Requirements discusses the core functions of the business analyst in the context of defining and communicating product requirements and introduces a variety of modeling and documentation techniques that can be applied in real-world business situations. The course is intended to serve several audiences and meet a variety of needs.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Describe the purpose of the Requirements Analysis and Design Definition knowledge area, as defined in A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge^® (BABOK^® Guide).
• Describe the core functions of the business analyst during Requirements Analysis and Design Definition.
• Describe the range of UML^® and other modeling techniques and their applicability to documenting and analyzing requirements provided by stakeholders.
• Learn how to build a context diagram to illustrate project boundaries and high-level scope of a system.
• Learn how to draw a use case diagram to illustrate the functional requirements of a system.
• Learn how to write a use case description to explain how a system will be used.
• Identify opportunities to implement advanced use case concepts, such as generalization and extend and include relationships.
• Provide user interface designers with the information that they need to know about the users in order to design an effective solution.
• Select an appropriate prototyping method based on intended usage by analyzing project information.
• Identify the components of a class model, including objects, classes, and operations.
• Model a set of business rules for an organization using either a decision table or a decision tree.
• Identify and prioritize non-functional requirements.

Course Structure

• Module 1: Overview of Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
• Module 2: Context Diagrams
• Module 3: Use Case Diagrams
• Module 4: Use Case Descriptions
• Module 5: Workflow Models
• Module 6: Activity Diagrams
• Module 7: User Interface Requirements: Usability
• Module 8: User Interface Requirements: Navigation and Information
• Module 9: Data Modeling
• Module 10: Class Models
• Module 11: Business Rules
• Module 12: Non-Functional Requirements