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ESI’s Business Analysis courses cover the areas laid down in the IIBA’s Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®), and our courses can be applied towards the 21 hours of training needed to apply to take the IIBA’s Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP™) exam.

 

PMBOK® Guide knowledge areas:

Project Scope Management

Project Quality Management

Project Communication Management

Use Case Modelling for Business Analysis


Course information

Duration: 4 days
PDUs: 22.5

Course Fee:
£1595 excl. VAT
€2295 excl. VAT

 

Learn how to:

  • Apply the benefits of use-case analysis throughout your project life cycle
  • Describe what use cases can and cannot do for requirements analysis
  • Work with end users and use cases to elicit and validate requirements easily
  • Define the scope of the system in enough detail to communicate clearly with stakeholders
  • Create use-case diagrams, narratives and scenarios
  • Utilise use cases beyond the analysis phase

Course Synopsis

It is recognised today that use cases provide a valuable alternative to traditional methods for organising and describing functional requirements. In particular, use cases allow for more effective communication between the user and technical communities thus helping ensure requirements are universally agreed upon. From the analyst’s perspective, use cases are advantageous as they are able to model the entire business process, providing the necessary documentation to identify the system’s interactions with the business goals, rules and business-level decisions.

This course frames the process of discovering use cases, beginning with finding the actors, the scope and the various relationships between them. It gives you access to the resourceful nature of the use case by focusing on users’ needs and how the system will help satisfy those needs, at the same time providing traceability from requirements to specifications to the product.

You will leave this course prepared to perform the proper tasks to create, document and review use cases to drive systems development. The same discipline can be applied to modelling the business using use cases.

Reminder: Prior to taking this course, you should have acquired the background as taught in Introduction to Business Analysis and How to Gather and Document User Requirements.

Course Topics

  1. Use Case Overview
    1. What is a use case?
    2. Business use cases vs. system use cases
    3. Use case approach
    4. The Unified Modeling Language™ (UML)
  2. Use Case Diagrams
    1. Use case elements
      • Actors
      • Diagrams
      • Scenarios
      • Other notations
    2. Defining project scope
    3. Dealing with exceptions
  3. Discovering Use Cases
    1. Use cases and actor's goals
    2. Brainstorming use cases
    3. Use case granularity
    4. Defining use cases
    5. Dealing with commonality
  4. Use Case Documentation
    1. The basics
    2. Alternate and exception paths
    3. Other descriptors
      • Business rules
      • Non-functional requirements
      • Extending use cases
  5. Completing the Business Analysis
    1. Use case document review
      • Goals of the review
      • Common problems and mistakes
    2. Completing the Business Requirements Document (BRD)
  6. Beyond the Analysis Phase
    1. Use cases and RUP
    2. Estimating project size
    3. Test scenarios

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