BCS Certificate in Systems Modelling Techniques (Structured)
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
London
In order to communicate system requirements clearly and accurately to both business and IT stakeholders, it is vital for analysts and designers to be able to construct models from a variety of perspectives. In most cases these models will provide the basis for more detailed design.
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Subjects
- IT
- Systems
Course programme
- The need for modelling and modelling standards
- Rationale for the selected approach
- The approach and a Systems Development Lifecycle
- Place of models within the Systems Development Lifecycle
- Modelling the system from different perspectives
- Interaction of the models
- Validating and verifying models
- Monitoring analysis against business objectives and system requirements
- The bridge to design, software package selection, and development
- Modelling processes using a data flow diagram
- Elementary process descriptions
- Types of data flow diagram
- Entity Relationship diagrams - entity types, attributes, keys, relationships, super-types and sub-types
- Supporting documentation
- Analysing the behaviour of entities - events, enquiries, effects
- Modelling the behaviour of entities - constructs for sequence, selection and iteration
- Documenting navigation paths
- Entity-Process Matrices (CRUD analysis)
- Places business systems modelling in context within a project life-cycle
- Types of model
- Current and proposed business system modelling
- The reasons for producing a business system process model
- The principles behind the construction and use of DFDs
- The benefits of using DFDs as a top-down, structured method of process modelling
- Rules for construction; Supporting documentation
- Entities/Relationships/Attributes
- Developing logical data models
- Drawing conventions
- Modelling the relationship between entities and processes (CRUD)
- Modelling the behaviour of data entities in terms of their life-cycle
- Identification of the valid alternative paths
- The construction of a simple user interface model (user conceptual model)
- Guidelines and approach for reviewing the models against the business objectives and system requirements for consistency and completeness
- Use of Structured Walkthroughs for peer and business domain expert validation
- BCS Certificate in Systems Development Essentials
- Systems Modelling Techniques (UML)
- BCS ISTQB Software Testing Foundation
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BCS Certificate in Systems Modelling Techniques (Structured)