{"id":1409,"date":"2022-10-25T14:13:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solmstc.com\/?page_id=1409"},"modified":"2022-10-26T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:38:43","slug":"course-content","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/solmstc.com\/index.php\/training_\/business-analysis-using-uml-and-urdad\/course-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Content: Business Analysis using UML &#038; URDAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-eb4cf88c alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-bf24accf\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Content: Business Analysis using UML &amp; URDAD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-e062281b\">\n<ol class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Contextualization and Overview<\/strong><ul><li>What is Business Analysis?<\/li><li>Role and Responsibilities of a Business Analyst<\/li><li>Stakeholders as sources of requirements: types of stakeholders<\/li><li>Types of Requirements<ul><li>Functional requirements<\/li><li>Non-Functional requirements<\/li><li>Data requirements<\/li><li>Constraints and business rules<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>The importance of testable requirements and how to specify testable requirements<\/li><li>Requirements and business process design across levels of granularity<\/li><li>Implementation options<ul><li>Assigning service contracts to outsourcing partners<\/li><li>Mapping business processes onto<ul><li>automated software processes<\/li><li>manual processes<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Using UML and URDAD for requirements refinement and business process design<ul><li>Object oriented concepts<\/li><li>Overview of the <em>Unified Modeling Language<\/em> (UML)<\/li><li>Overview of <em>Use-Case, Responsibility Driven Analysis and Design<\/em> 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