- Course Length:
3 days - PDUs:
Earn 21 IIBA CDUs and PMI PDUs - Public Pricing:
$1995 - Onsite Pricing:
We offer discount pricing for onsite groups. Please contact us to discuss your specific course requirements, group size, and available training dates. - Detailing Business Data Requirements: Self-guided study available for purchase.
Understanding and documenting business data requirements is a critical component in defining complete requirements. Eliciting information needs often uncovers additional processes and business rules. Every business process uses data and almost all business rules are enforced by data. Missing a critical piece of data or incorrectly defining a data element contributes to the majority of maintenance problems and results in systems that do not reflect the business needs. This course teaches students an in-depth approach to data modeling: identifying and defining all necessary data components using both textual templates and an entity relationship diagram.
This course teaches business analysis techniques for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting data requirements to both new and experienced practitioners. Students will be given data templates with a suggested documentation structure for defining Business Data Requirements. It supports and expands on the techniques in the IIBA BABOK® Guide V2.0. Mentor-led workshops require students to practice the techniques as they learn. Students are encouraged to bring their own projects to class.
The course provides business analysts the knowledge to:
- Identify core data requirements beginning with project initiation.
- Identify excellent data requirements at the appropriate level of detail.
- Detail the data requirements (using a data dictionary and data model).
- Detail complex data related business rules.
- Assist with the transition of business data to database design.
- Utilize easy normalization techniques (without all the mathematical theory).
- Validate data requirements with activity (process or use case) requirements.
Even if your organization has a data administrator or data warehouse team who is responsible for documenting and managing the organization’s information needs, every project uses a subset of that enterprise information in its own unique way. Business analysts must understand the importance of data in all of their projects and include data requirements in their business requirements documentation. Failing to document which data elements need to be used in a calculation, or displayed on a report, leaves the developer the responsibility of choosing the correct pieces of business data from hundreds if not thousands of available fields. These missing requirements often lead to expensive and lengthy project delays during the testing phase.
“… the data sees the big picture, while the various people and machines and organizations that work on the data see only a portion of what happens. As you go about doing a Structured Analysis, you will find yourself more and more frequently attaching yourself to the data and following it through the operation. I think of this as “interviewing the data.”‘ It is usually more productive than any other single interview.”
This class is a part of the B2T Training Business Analyst Certification Program. For more information on the program, please see our Certification page.Intended Audience
This course is designed for business analysts, systems analysts, data administrators, database administrators, or any other project team member involved with business analysis. This course may also be appropriate for individuals who manage business analysts or those who work with the business requirements document and need a more in-depth understanding of the process and documentation.
Prerequisites
We recommend that students first attend our Essential Skills for Business Analysis class or have experience in project scope definition, gathering requirements from subject matter experts, and understand how business requirements fit into the entire systems development effort.
Introduction
| 1 hour |
Entities and Attributes
| 5 hours |
Entity Relationships and Diagramming Conventions
| 4 hours |
Detailing the Data Requirements
| 5 hours |
Transition from Business Data to a Physical Design
| 2 hours |
Workshop - Identify and document data requirements for the case study
| 4 hours |
Appendix - Data Normalization
| Optional |
Detailing Business Data Requirements | $1995 | |
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