This exceptional workshop details everything you need to know about determining, analyzing and specifying requirements for today’s systems — in plain, understandable language.

This powerful 2-day workshop focuses on “how to do it” and nothing else. This approach to business systems analysis is not the Same Old Stuff (with the Same Old Results). This workshop deals specifically with how to do what needs to be done. We won’t bore you with obscure theories and discussions of analysis and problem solving. Nor will we compare one conceptual method against another. But we will drill home exactly “how to do it” without abstraction and without pain – so you can get the results you want, fast. And you will have the opportunity to practice what you learn. You’ll never look back.

Mastering Business Systems Analysis (by Trond Frantzen) includes scores of diagrams and examples. Every person registered for this course will get their own signed copy.

What this Course is all about

This is the most powerful and effective workshop-lab on business systems analysis available from The Institute. There is no better way of finding out than to experience it yourself.

You will learn an incredibly fast way to discover, understand and document your client’s business requirements, and the supporting data, so they can be turned into a functioning system (acquired or custom built) without pain in record time.

Participants in this special session will learn how to conduct discovery sessions with subject-matter experts to find and identify business ‘events’ – the circumstances and conditions that define a business system. You’ll know how to document supporting business processes; how to identify the data needed to support the business processes; and how to make sure nothing is missed (errors of omission).

This 2-day workshop – with almost 50% hands-on practice – will show you everything you need to know about applying and implementing really rapid, modern business systems analysis. You’ll come away from this workshop eager to start a new client project. You’ll receive a Course Workbook (with complete presentation notes), an illustrated book authored by the developer of the Approach, and a real project example. You will never look back.

Who Should Attend?

If you do business systems analysis – or if you lead, supervise or manage projects that need business systems analysis, or system specification and design (or even database analysis and design) – you should register for this session. In clear and understandable language, you will be guided through a powerful integrated Approach to business systems requirements analysis. With or without a technical background, you will find this session fresh and effective. This is the quantum leap. It’s certainly not the Same Old Stuff.

What You Get

·   Course Workbook / Reference Manual – Includes screen-shots of the presentation (great for note-taking) as well as sample work-shop solutions, cheat sheets and other reference pages.

·   Illustrated Book – Mastering Business Systems Analysis (by Trond Frantzen) – Softcover, 278 pages with hundreds of diagrams that provide all the details on the Approach. The book is signed by the author.

·   Sample Real Project BRD  – A full sample Business Requirements Document (BRD) from a real project.

·   Universal Master Events List – Thousands of sample ‘events’ covering almost every business type and area. A great way to get your project started.

·   Discovery Session Invitation Memo template – A great help to get SMEs (subject-matter experts) to participate in your discovery sessions.

·   Project Scope Blitz Template – It’s a lot easier to capture business 'events' with this template.

·   Business Rules Table (BRT) Template – Capture the business rules in a table, fast and easy.

·   CD-ROM with Reference Materials – All reference materials, including the Course Workbook / Reference Manual and the “Mastering Business Systems Analysis” book are available digitally on your personal CD-ROM.

·   Continental Breakfast – A delicious Continental Breakfast to start your day.

·   Lunch Service – A popular and tasty luncheon served from a chef's kitchen.

·   Certificate of Completion – Suitable for framing.

The Main Topics

« The Project Scope Blitz

How to accurately determine a project’s scope – in just 3 to 6 hours.

« The Business Event

How to find all the foundation ‘events’ – the circumstances and conditions that define a project.

« The Business Process

How to define a required business process based on an ‘event’ – a specific circumstance or condition.

« The Business Object

How to identify an Object that supports a business process, find its data, and define it well.

« The Business Rules Table

How to use the BRT to uncover business policy and hidden ‘events’. How to use it to identify test cases. And, if you wish, how to use it to create a logical data model (a prescription for database design) based on the business requirements.

« The Business Process Narrative Description

How to document it, with consistency, without difficulty, and without abstraction.

« The ‘Discovery’ Sessions

How to work with subject-matter experts to uncover business system requirements – really fast!

« The Transition to Solution Design

How software engineers can create the solution design based on the BRD (Business Requirements Document). 

« Workshop - Lab

Participants will engage in a Project Scope Blitz, and then conduct a workshop-lab to complete a significant Business Requirements Document (BRD) under the guidance of author-instructor Trond Frantzen.

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