10 Reasons to attend Inteq Training Programs
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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How do I schedule an on-site training program?
A: All Inteq training programs are available on-site at your location. On-site training enables us to tailor the delivery of the program to the unique need and requirements of your organization. Contact us for details.

Q: What is the tuition for on-site training?
A: On-site training is cost effective with as few a 8 participants. The tuition is tiered, based on the number of participants, up to 24 participants. Contact us for a quote.

Q. Do you offer custom programs?
A: Yes. We can create custom configurations across our existing programs, integrate hands-on mentoring, etc., to meet your special and unique training requirements.

Q. Are your training programs available on an open enrollment basis?
A: Yes. Inteq training programs are available via open enrollment at scheduled dates locations across the U.S and London. See the registraion page for details.

Q. Who will be our instructor?
A: All Inteq instructors are first and foremost real-world hands-on practitioners of the subject matter. Our instructors are highly experienced professionals that also have excellent teaching and communication skills. (Also see "8 Reasons to Schedule an Inteq Training Program")

Q: How do I get more info?
A: Please contact us at 800.719.4627 or email us a info@inteqgroup.com or send us your questions via the Contact Us page.

Business Systems Analysis I – Discovering, Analyzing & Specifying Business System Business Requirements

An Intensive 1-day Instructor Led Training Program

Inteq’s Business Systems Analysis I traning program provides the essential critical thinking skills, conceptual knowledge and best practice techniques to rapidly discover, thoroughly analyze and accurately specify business system business requirements from a non-technical business perspective.

Why this training program is important to you and to your organization

A number of organizations utilize technical design oriented methods such as class diagrams to specify requirements – which are difficult for business end users to understand and validate.

Both approaches often result in inaccurate, ambiguous and incomplete specifications with critical gaps that frustrate business end users and require costly post implementation enhancements and modifications to the resulting systems.

Unlike any other training, Inteq training is uniquely designed around a cohesive set of practical, highly effective, business end-user friendly, best practice standards – that enable your organization to efficiently leverage analysis resources and business end-user knowledge across the enterprise!

Who Should Attend?

Inteq’s Business Systems Analysis I training program is designed for Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Project Managers, Developers and Subject Matter Experts and Business End Users actively involved in the requirements process and anyone interested in rapidly producing high quality business system business requirements.

You will learn:

• The 5 types of interactions that form the basis for all business system business requirements
• Business end-user friendly analysis skills, techniques and methods that enable rapid and thorough analysis
• To specify clear, concise, comprehensive, accurate, validated, unambiguous requirements
• Best practice techniques to work smarter and faster in identifying, defining and analyzing business rules
• Practical techniques to identify and validate complex business scenarios and surface hidden requirements

Prerequisites:

Business Requirements Essentials. This training program is a prerequisite to Business Systems Analysis II.

Program Outline

Identifying Baseline Requirements
• 5 types of business system business requirements
• Rapid identification of baseline requirements via the interaction context diagram
• Validating baseline requirements vis-à-vis scope
• Anchoring requirements via summary level use cases

Extending Baseline Requirements
• Analyzing work activities and workflow
• Activity diagramming & the interaction flow of events
• Identifying /analyzing alternative and exception flows
• Analyzing deep requirements via scenario analysis
• Defining forward facing “to-be” functionality

Business Information Requirements
• Characteristics of business data
• Business entities and supporting analysis
• Business entity state transition analysis
• Defining data oriented business rules

Specifying Requirements via Use Cases
• The visual/model based use case format
• Organizing and tracking requirements via use cases
• Distilling test cases from use cases

Hands-on Case Study: Participants work together in small groups to rapidly identify, analyze and specify requirements based on a business case facilitated by the instructor.

Best Practices and Practical Tips
• Rapid iteration and requirement prototyping
• Scaling analysis to: new development, modification of existing applications, vendor commercial products
• Discovery techniques and engaging business users

Inteq’s instructor led live format and best practice curriculum combined with carefully crafted exercises results in a highly effective training experience.

Program participants receive a comprehensive course workbook, supplemental materials, and a certificate of completion indicating CEU credits awarded.
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Inteq training programs are available via open enrolment at scheduled dates/ locations across the U.S and London and on-site at your locations – worldwide. Please call us at 800.719.4627 or contact us at info@inteqgroup.com or via the form on the Contact Us page.