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| Business analysts' primary job is to identify what information technology their business needs and communicate these needs to information technology specialists. From the beginning of the project to the end, business analysts need to be able to lead subject matter experts and end-users through analysis, definition, verification and validation to ultimately ensure that the evolving solution meets the business need. |
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A comprehensive introduction to common techniques used by business systems analysts. This seminar presents both tried-and-true and state-of-the-art techniques for defining business problems, business processes, business data, business requirements, and acceptance tests. Participants do not need a background in information technology to learn how to gather, define, and validate business requirements effectively. |
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| Business analysts need to communicate business needs to information technology specialists. From workflow problems to the design of effective solutions, learn how to analyze your usage of information technology, identify problems, request changes, and evaluate whether a proposed solution meets your needs. |
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A comprehensive introduction to all activities that a typical Business Analyst needs. This seminar presents accepted, industry standard approaches to defining business problems, business processes, business data, business requirements, and acceptance testing. This seminar does not require a background in information technology but is designed for people who want to learn how to define business requirements effectively. |
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| This interactive workshop teaches you how to interview subject matter experts, recognize business problems, extrapolate business needs, and document the business requirements for a technological solution. You will learn how to create use case diagrams, data flow diagrams, data models, and object models to present, discuss, and analyze various dimensions of the business environment. |
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This seminar introduces basic business system analysis techniques such as problem analysis, process analysis, data analysis and requirements gathering. It also incorporates the evolving concept of use cases and use case diagrams as tools for business analysts. |
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| Object-Oriented design and development are recognized as the premier approach to delivering information technology. The industry is currently attempting to apply this state-of-the-art thinking to the process of defining the business and system requirements. This seminar introduces participants to the various modeling tools that are part of the UML (Unified Modeling Language) in a context of business system analysis. |
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A introductory seminar dedicated to the use of use case, class, object, activity, sequence and state diagrams of the UML in business analysis. This approach assumes a working knowledge of basic business analysis tools and techniques and is designed to advance that skill set. |
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| Business analysts need to be obsessed with understanding how business processes, information, and technology interact to empower an organization to fulfill its mission. As an experienced business analyst, you are engaged in a perpetual learning cycle, from learning more about the subject areas you support to learning better and faster techniqeminaues for doing your job. |
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A comprehensive presentation of all activities that a senior Business Systems Analyst needs. This seminar presents state-of-the-art techniques and evolving trends concerning defining business problems, business processes, business data, business rules, and business requirement management. It offers a full introduction to the concepts embodied in the field of requirements engineering for the 21st century.. |
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| JAD (Joint Application Development) facilitation is about inspiring people to produce high-quality deliverables in extremely short time frames. It requires a competent session leader to solicit information and an adept session analyst to capture and evaluate the results. You will learn how to plan, schedule, resource, and conduct efficient and effective JAD sessions. |
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This seminar focuses on fundamental information gathering techniques with people-oriented communicating and empowering methods. The techniques presented here augment all of the business system analysis techniques offered in our other seminars. |
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| The successful completion of a JAD session requires a unique combination of people-oriented facilitation skills and task-focused analysis techniques. Beyond planning, preparing, and conducting the session, you will learn problem analysis, process analysis, business data modeling, and requirements engineering techniques. |
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This seminar combines the most pertinent techniques from business analysis and JAD facilitation into a potent package that will help experienced facilitators become more efficient and give beginners a head start. It illustrates a focused application of the JAD concept to the business requirements gathering challenge. |
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| In today’s world, your organization is only as good as your information systems. As a consequence, testing business information systems has become a corporate priority, not another assignment for an overworked information technology department. |
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Test strategies, test plans, test cases and test scripts are components of your testing methodology. You need a consistent approach for developing each component individually and for maintaining it as an integral part of your test environment. |
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| Effective testing is planned and budgeted when your project starts. Efficient testing is engineered for optimal performance throughout the system life cycle. The techniques presented in this seminar will help you from the development of a testing strategy through execution of the tests and tracking of problem reports. |
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IT professionals and subject matter experts need the techniques presented in this seminar for effective unit, integration, system, and end-user acceptance testing of an information system. The class provides a conceptual walkthrough of all of the pieces of the testing puzzle from the selection of the strategy to the reporting of errors. |
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| Our modular system analysis and design program delivers key competencies in the critical areas necessary to develop an information system. Each module is approximately 1/2-day to 1-day long. Based on the target audience, participants can complete a 4 to 7-day curriculum or organizations can use selected modules to perform skill in-fill or skill tune-up. |
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This comprehensive set of modules concentrates of delivering core competencies to information technology professionals that would like to improve their skills in defining problems, analyzing processes, designing data solutions and communicating to all levels of management within the project structure. |
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| Business experts need to know how to evaluate whether proposed information technology is right for them. Quite often they are called to duty to "test the system" with little or no formal training in how to do that. Structured testing techniques are the most effective tool that they can use to reduce the risk of failure once the system is in production. |
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This seminar introduces test plans, test cases, test conditions and a testing methodology tailored for the end user. It does not presume that you have any kind of knowledge about information technology solutions and is designed to introduce you to the basic knowledge needed to evaluate whether a presented solution meets your needs. |
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| Information technology projects of all sizes require a balance of expertise that spans business analysis and project management disciplines. This 2-day case-oriented workshop introduces basic techniques for planning, defining, and coordinating small projects that will keep them small. At the same time, these techniques are fully scalable in support of larger projects. |
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The techniques presented in this class will allow you to analyze, define, and manage projects from 4 days to 4 months in duration. Many of the techniques are scalable to larger, more sophisticated projects. It forms the perfect basis for those who do not have project management experience but have to get the job done quickly. |
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