Detailing Process and Business Rule Requirements

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Overview:

Business process requirements provide the foundational element of any project. This course continues the development of the requirements package by defining the essential processes and business rules. The most effective approach to ensure success is to understand the business environment and use this understanding to elicit and document business and functional requirements.

Students are taught proven techniques to identify and define the essential business processes within the scope of the project and then detail them into functional requirements. These techniques include AS IS and TO BE modeling, workflow modeling, process decomposition diagrams, use cases, and prototypes. Students will learn how and when to effectively use these techniques at the appropriate level of detail for varying audiences.

Business analysts are uniquely qualified to elicit and document process and business rule requirements because of their understanding of the business needs and the user's work environment. Business analysts are expected to analyze and understand business problems and present solution recommendations to the business stakeholders. Business process modeling adds value to projects by ensuring the technology solution will meet the business needs.

In this course students will learn to:

• Understand and document the business environment using industry best practices.
• Use provided templates to elicit and document processes and business rules.
• Look beyond the current technology or procedures to discover the true nature of the business activity.
• Ask the right questions to identify the core business processes and the business rules that control or guide them.
• Document functional requirements that specify how users will interact with the software and how the software will respond.
• Deliver consistent, detailed use case descriptions.
• Use several diagrams including the decomposition diagram, use case diagram, and workflow diagrams.
• Look at the business area objectively after business requirements are documented and organized to present alternative design solutions that meet the customer needs.
• Validate business processes against data requirements.
• Consider usability when developing prototypes.

This class is a part of the B2T Training Business Analyst Certification Program. For more information on the program, please see our Certification page.

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We offer discount pricing for onsite groups. Please contact us to discuss your specific course requirements, group size, and available training dates.

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