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Business Analysis, Requirements, and Project Management

(BA-PROJ-MGMT.AV1)
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1

Introduction

  • The Textbooks on Traditional Planning Didn’t Help
  • The Role of the Analyst – Manager
  • What Is It That Students Need to Know in the Early Lifecycle to Get Them through Their Studies?
  • What’s in This Course
  • Technology Car Crash?
  • How to Read This Course
  • Limitations
2

Business Concept Models

  • Why Start Here?
  • The Basics of Business Concept Models
  • Why Bother with Business Concept Models?
  • Business Data or Database Data?
  • Introducing the Case Study
  • Definition of Terms
3

Business Process Modelling

  • BPMN: A Very Useful Subset for Whilst at University
  • Errors and Cancellations
  • From Concept to Process
  • Case Study: Fizzit in BPMN
4

Problem Frames

  • Elements of the Problem Frame
  • Making Use of Problem Frames When We Can
  • Multiframe Problem for Google Translate
  • Progression of Problems
  • Deriving Problem Frames from Business Processes
5

Requirements and Specification

  • More about Requirements
  • Types of Requirements
  • Ways to Gather Requirements
  • Specification of Requirements
  • How to ‘Specify’ a Requirement in 10 Easy Steps
6

Use Cases

  • Use Case Diagram
  • Elements of the Use Case Diagram
  • The Slight Problem with <<extends>>
  • Use Case Descriptions
  • Clerk closes the account
  • Use Case Description Writing Rules
  • Seven Style Rules
  • Two Structure Rules
7

A Brief Discussion of Software Project Management

  • Management and Requirements
  • The Idea
  • What’s the Official Record of Software Projects?
  • What’s the Point of Project Management?
  • Project Management Tools of You
  • But…before We Move On
  • Why Not Just Propose Scrum?
8

Product Breakdown Structure

  • Basic Process and How to Get It Wrong
  • Example Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)
  • Work or Product? Breakdown Structure
  • A Note on Risk Management
9

Gantt Chart

  • Feature-Driven Development (FDD)
  • Task-Driven Development?
  • Creating the Gantt Chart
10

Kanban Boards

  • What the Columns Mean
  • Why Do We Need So Many Columns?
A

Appendix 1 Fizzit.com Case Study

  • Business Rules
  • Concept Model Diagram
  • Fizzit Definition of Terms
  • Fizzit Business Process Models
  • Drop-Off Location Process
  • Fizzit QA and Payment
  • Problem Frames
  • Requirements Specification Tables
  • Use Cases
  • Use Case Descriptions
  • Product Breakdown Structure
  • Gantt Chart
  • Kanban Board

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