Course Content: Business Analysis using UML & URDAD

  1. Contextualization and Overview
    • What is Business Analysis?
    • Role and Responsibilities of a Business Analyst
    • Stakeholders as sources of requirements: types of stakeholders
    • Types of Requirements
      • Functional requirements
      • Non-Functional requirements
      • Data requirements
      • Constraints and business rules
    • The importance of testable requirements and how to specify testable requirements
    • Requirements and business process design across levels of granularity
    • Implementation options
      • Assigning service contracts to outsourcing partners
      • Mapping business processes onto
        • automated software processes
        • manual processes
    • Using UML and URDAD for requirements refinement and business process design
      • Object oriented concepts
      • Overview of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
      • Overview of Use-Case, Responsibility Driven Analysis and Design (URDAD)
    • Course overview
  2. UML for Business Analysts
    1. Overview of the UML Language: UML diagrams versus UML model
    2. Use Case Diagrams
      • Use cases as services
      • Actors and actor types
      • Communication channels
      • Use case abstraction for scoping
      • Other use case relationships
      • Pre- and post-conditions
    3. Class Diagrams
      • Objects and classes
      • Attributes and services
      • Relationships
        • realization, specialization, composition, aggregation association, association, dependency and containment
        • Deciding on the correct relationship
      • Class diagrams for data structure specification
      • Class diagrams for service contract specification
    4. Sequence Diagrams
      • Roles. life-lines,. activity bars and messages
      • Conditional flow, iteration and concurrency in sequence diagrams
      • Timing constraints and triggers
      • What to do about exceptions?
      • Defining process across levels of granularity
    5. Activity diagrams
      • Modern versus legacy activity diagrams – what are the benefits?
      • Associating activities with services
      • Conditional flow, iteration and concurrency in activity diagrams
      • Exceptions – raising and handling
      • Advantages of activity diagrams over sequence diagrams
    6. UML Summary
  3. URDAD for technology neutral analysis and business process design
    1. Aims of URDAD
    2. The URDAD UML profile
    3. Views used to populate an URDAD model
      • Service contract view
      • Data structure views
      • Business process specification view
    4. The URDAD process
      • Specifying scope
      • Across levels of refinement
        • Use case requirements as service contracts
        • Business process design
      • Transition to the next lower level of granularity and when to stop.
    5. The structure of an URDAD model
    6. Validating an URDAD model
    7. Generating a Requirements and Business Process Design Specification Document
  4. A complete case study

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