Modeling Business Processes Using Structured Systems Analysis

Business Analysis Certificate Program
Business Analysis Fundamentals	Modeling Business Processes
Reengineering Business Processes	Designing Business Solutions

As organizations attempt to redefine obsolete and ineffective work processes, this seminar provides the required basic skills needed to model and study business systems.  Modeling Business Processes offers a clear and logical approach to capturing, evaluating and communicating business processes using the graphic modeling techniques of Structured Analysis.  The results of this process also establish a foundation for more advanced business analysis.

Modeling Business Processes is based on the systems engineering discipline intended to aid the creation of rigorous specifications for a business system.  This premier structured method has been used by systems analyst and business analysts since the mid 1970s.  It has proven effective for gathering business requirements and then evaluating those results.  The resulting models are easy to build, read and present—and this process may be easily learned by non-technical end users and subject matter experts as well as designated systems analysts.

Course Objectives
Participants will learn

• Model a business system and understand Structured Analysis.

• Collect diverse process components from various business units.

• Organize process components and define the boundaries of each process flow.

• Capture the processes into a top-down, layered, graphic model.

• Create and evaluate Data Flow Diagrams.

• Create Mini-Specifications and Data Dictionary definitions.

• Define the detailed policy and business rules that support each process.

• Define the composition of each collection of data that is used by each process.

• Validate the contents of each model component against other components.

Participants will leave able to communicate findings, establish a sound foundation for reengineering business processes and data and record robust model information that may be used for manual or automated implementations of the processes.  Modeling Business Processes, the second course in the Business Analysis Certificate, provides an overview of the total analysis process that is continued in Reengineering Business Processes and Designing Application Systems.

Who should attend?
This seminar will benefit anyone involved in:

• Identifying detailed business requirements.

• Creating models of business requirements.

• Validating that the information in the analysis models is correct.

• Evaluating the analysis models for improvements in the business.

• Using the analysis models to create new manual and automated solutions.

Past participants have included systems analysts, business analysts, reengineers, TQM specialists, project managers, team members, operations specialists, industrial engineers, systems engineers, software engineers, interface designers and technology specialists.

 

Instructor
Chuck Tryon developed the business analysis series and we are pleased to partner with Tryon and Associates to offer a meaningful Business Analysis Certificate.  Chuck is a nationally respected educator and popular symposium speaker.  He founded Tryon and Associates in 1986 to provide seminar training and consulting on approaches to modern project management, knowledge management and business requirements. The strategies presented in Chuck’s seminars are used by thousands of professionals in hundreds of organizations across the United States, Europe and Canada.  His client list includes many top 100 companies.

Prior to launching Tryon and Associates, Chuck spent five years as a senior staff consultant and instructor with Yourdon, Inc., of New York.  Chuck also worked for Sun Oil Company as a project manager, systems analyst and software designer.  A business administration graduate of the University of Tulsa, he is completing a Master of Science in Knowledge Management at the University of Oklahoma.  He also serves as the co-chair and moderator for the regional Knowledge and Project Management Symposium.

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course.  However attendees who have a good awareness of general business principles and operations will gain the best benefit.