Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture

Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture

Object models, state/transition diagrams, use cases, entity/relationship diagrams, data flow diagrams? And so forth? There are too many different techniques out there! How am I to sort them all out? How do I know when to use which one?
John Zachman’s architecture framework provides the answer to this. Its thirty-six cells provide a home for every one of the system-development techniques that has been created over the last thirty years.

Objective:

Attendees will understand the system development life cycle, requirement analysis, and the Zachman framework
Learn requirements analysis as the translation of a set of business owners’ views into an architecture
Understand how various techniques that can contribute to the architecture and how the techniques are related to each other
Understand various techniques such as data flow diagrams, process models, function hierarchies, IDEF0 Diagrams, Use Cases, state transition diagrams, entity life histories, techniques for relating business rules to data and others

Duration: 1-2 days

Who Should Attend:
Systems Managers, Data Administrators, Business Managers, Systems Analysts and Developers, Project Managers

Class Format: Lecture and group discussion

Instructor: David Hay