Course description
Conducting business process analysis is a best practice to ensure that the solution requirements are business process-based and that the requirements you document meet the business needs. Identifying/documenting the business processes in scope and documenting the as-is business process flow map for each process enables you to use them for pain point/opportunity analysis. This sets a strong foundation for the business process context where the new solution functionality will come into play to support the business. Pain point/opportunity analysis helps to identify where things need to be fixed, which may or may not result in requirements for a new solution. There is great value in simply understanding where things are not working well. Opportunity analysis focuses on improving a process even when it appears that there is nothing wrong — but it could be done better.
The format of the workshop will be interactive and collaborative. It will serve to provide hands-on workshop discussions/exercises to ensure a sound understanding of how to effectively:
- Identify/document the business process within scope of the project.
- Build an as-is business process flow map to depict who is responsible for doing what, when, in what sequence, using/producing what information, and employing what technology.
- Walk through a business process flow map to identify the different types of pain points and where opportunities that would improve the process.
- Use the process flow map and analysis of pain points/opportunities to identify use cases that are requirements for the new solution.
- Build a use case inventory that jumpstarts a system context diagram.
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Training content
Understand the Business Scope — Business Context Diagram
- Requirements Life Cycle — Analyze the Business
- Define the Scope — Business vs. System
- Business Context Diagram
- Context Diagram Notation
- Exercise: Build/Revisit the Business Context Diagram
Identify and Structure the Business Processes
- What Is a Business Process
- Types of Business Processes
- Discussion: Starting a New BA Project
- Information Gathering
- Document Business Events
- Exercise: Identify Business Events and Process Responses
- Process Decomposition Diagram
- Exercise: Identify and Structure the Business Processes
Understand the “As-Is” Business Process
- Why Model a Business Process?
- Process Flow Diagrams
- BPMN
- Exercise: Build a Process Flow Diagram
- Business Rules
Conduct Process Analysis — Pain Points/Opportunities/Recommendations
- Deliverables
- Identify Pain Points/Opportunities
- Identify Potential Solutions
- Document Recommendations
- Exercise: Conduct Process Analysis
- Exercise: Conduct Root Cause Analysis
Leverage Process Analysis to Identify Use Cases
- Identifying Use Cases
- Use Case Inventory
- Exercise: Identify Use Cases
Understand the System Scope — System Context Diagram
- Define the Scope — Business vs. System
- System Context Diagram Overview and Notation
- Exercise: Document the Solution Scope — System Context Diagram
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Certification / Credits
- Describe what a business process is, how to identify them, and how to structure them in a process decomposition diagram.
- Illustrate processes via a process flow diagram.
- Identify and analyze pain points and opportunities for improvement to the business process.
- Identify new solution requirements within the context of the business process by identifying use cases and documenting them in a use case inventory.
- Build a system context diagram that will graphically illustrate the scope of the new system solution (helps to avoid system scope creep).
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