All delegates will receive a certificate of attendance from ISOEA

optional exam track - Delegates will receive a copy of the OBASHI reference manual from UK. The track includes a UK certification exam.

BASA
Business And Systems Analysis course

Must-Have Skills for any IT staff and anyone dealing with business systems. The course with the most ROI for you!

Why you and your staff need this course.

There has always been a noticeable gap between the  requirements of the business and the perceived ability of IT to deliver  on time and on budget, to the satisfaction of both parties. We are now  in the transition stage of the evolution of IT and business. This  problem must be tackled, and we need to do it NOW in order to remain  relevant.

Business and Systems Analysis Modeling the focus

Modeling is the basis of all kinds of analysis. Think of   the ubiquitous spreadsheet (eg MS Office Excel). It is used by almost  everyone to do "what-if" analysis on numbers. For example, "What if I  increase my selling price by five percent; will this result in higher or lower expected profits?". We just don't normally think of the task as  modeling. Business analysis also perform "what-if", although it will  require a lot more tools/techniques than the spreadsheet. How do you  know that you have considered most, if not all, the user requirements -  especially if they did not tell you most of it? Modeling! We need to be  able to ask, and to answer, questions like "What if we put this  application on the cloud; in what way will our systems need to change?". or "If we go ahead with the proposed change in company policy, what  work is required by IT, and what is the impact on the companys business  operations in terms of people and bottom-line?". This sort of ability  taught in the course will make you very comfortable in dealing with  senior management and cross-department colleagues because you can now  provide them with quick answers to their questions. And you too can ask  the right questions at the right time. Business Systems Models are  representations of various aspects of the business, both IT-enabled and  manual, that allow us to test out alternative answers to these types of  questions, safely and quickly. As an IT professional, or a business  change leader (e.g. Project Manager), you will be able to increase your  effectiveness many folds, by knowing, and applying the main system  modeling techniques taught in the course. All the modeling techniques  taught are Best-practice, mainstream, used and proven over many years by people, organisations and methodologies.
However, it is critical that the modeling is based on real life case studies that are from participants own environment. Text book case studies are useless! Analysis is a thinking skill. Modeling  is only the frame to apply the analysis, not the end purpose.

Topics Covered This course

takes into account the best of the old and new, to get you  up to speed as quickly as possible. What models are. How to tell if it  is a living model or just a diagram. The Zachman Framework for  Enterprise Architecture. The total range of information that is  possible, for any complex system. The Secret - What they never told you  at university.
How to see beyond the obvious, to solve the “no time� problem as described in “The Paradox of Time� (see the In-Tech published article by Simon Seow).
 Differences and similarities between Business Analysis and Systems Analysis. Entity and Data Models; Process Models; Event Timing Models, Object Oriented  models, Service Oriented Approaches, Use Cases.   Coordinating Analysis  and Project Management Governance issues and your role in it.   Discovering/showing relationships between Owner, Business, Application,  System, Hardware and Infrastructure. The OBASHI methodology. Creating  Blueprints for Corporate Mission and Vision statements.  Outsourcing  decisions and planning. Identifying Risk and Security issues. Improving  Process Improvement capabilities.   Quality improvement and  management.   Addressing issues of alignment and integration.  How to  define your role in your organisation and how to help your organisation  to improve interdepartmental coordination. Audit and Control issues.
Moving from Analysis to Design, and other parts of your SDLC. The place of  analysis in different kinds of standards and methodologies, e.g. ITIL®,  PRINCE2®, Agile, SCRUM, TOGAF® etc.  Case Studies from different  industries. Documentation the realistic and effective way. Requirements  Specification. Enterprise and Solution Architectures. Where to look for  opportunities. Communicating with management and other stakeholders.