How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Data July 23, 2012

How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Data
Sessions: 2 Sessions
When: 7/23 thru 7/24 from 8:30am-4:30pm
Overview:
This course gives you a proven set of business process core techniques, methods, and tips for business analysis to help Business Analysts acquire, understand, document, and model business data. This information exists in three primary locations; user views (reports, screens, etc.), in the minds of the business personnel who may not know that they have this knowledge, and in previously automated systems. To discover, structure, and document this "data about data", you will learn an intuitive, top-down approach to business data modeling and a rigorous, bottom-up approach.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for Business Analysts, Business Process Owners, Data Administrators, Data Analysts, Requirements Definition Specialists, System Analysts, Test Engineers, and anyone charged with managing, understanding, and/or improving information use.
Why You Should Attend Best Practices Methodology
DA&R's requirements training is for professionals who provide information and experience for, or create software and any other type of technical or business requirements. Our Public Sector, Fortune 500, and Nonprofit customers have adopted our Best Practices as their standard for defining and managing requirements.
Upon completion, successful participants will be able to:
• Draw business data models
• Compare the pros and cons of data modeling
• Draw data model (entity relationship) diagrams
• Create a data model from requirements
• Morph an existing data model into a future data model
• Build a data model based on existing system documentation
• Assign attributes to the appropriate entity on the diagram
• Analyze data attributes characteristics (metadata)
• Analyze user views, (screens, reports, etc.) to modify a data model
• Modify an existing data model based on new requirements
• Evaluate a data model for full normalization and correctness
• Report data constraints that influence the physical data structures
Expansion
To meet specific training needs, this class can be combined with the following offers:
• How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Processes
• How to Elicit (Gather), Write, and Analyze Business Requirements

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