Business Analysis: Data Flow Diagrams To Visualize Workflows

What you'll learn
Document existing business processes and workflows in Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) to initiate business process analysis
Defend the need for Data Flow Diagrams, Context Diagrams, and Rigorous Physical Process Models
Use the right symbols for each type of diagram to ensure a common interpretation by all parties
Explode a high level Data Flow Diagram to its lower level details to reveal underlying processes and procedures
Balance DFD's to identify missing processes and reduce late project change requests
Use Horizontal Balancing to discover missing data and minimize redundancies
Document process specifications for functional primitives to guide the solution providers
Express metadata to reveal informational details that developers need to build the solution
Apply workflow analysis techniques to reveal the cause of business problems, timing anomalies, and error/exception handling processes.
Leverage the results of workflow analysis to elicit requirements, user stories, scenarios, features, etc.
Requirements
No technical background required
Need to lead a group of stakeholders through workflow analysis, i.e. in a user story or requirement workshop.
Desire to present, analyze, and suggest improvements for one or more workflows / business processes
Interest in the field of business analysis
No additional materials are required
Description
Do you want to visualize your workflows and business processes to simplify the requirements discovery process? Or maybe you want a more efficient workflow, but you don't know where to start? This course is for you!Learn how to:Create Data Flow...

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