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Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis

Name: Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis
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Better illustrate and visually describe how work is performed in this business analysis modelling course. With this training, you will learn several business modelling best practices, identify opportunities for improvement within multiple levels of your projects, focus on key components within the process flow, and more efficiently fulfil your role...

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Last updated : 23/07/2026
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Duration:

32.00 hours

26.0 CPD hours

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Introduction

- Why do you need business models?
- Modelling techniques within A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)

Defining the Scope of Modelling

What is a business model?

- Separating textual and diagrammatic elements
- Contrasting scope with level of detail
Crafting a process to develop a business model

- Applying the steps: elicit, analyse, document, validate
- Iterating the steps
- OMG modelling standards
- Facilitating requirements workshops
- Correlating models to project type and deliverables
Capturing the multidimensional aspects of an organisation

- Applying the five Ws approach: who, what, where, when, why and how
- Selecting the right level of detail for your stakeholders
- Employing CASE tools and simulation

Mapping the Business Landscape

Analysing the enterprise

- Exploring the enterprise architecture
- Decomposing the architecture into its components: business, data, technology and other perspectives
Applying business rules

- Documenting the constraints: operative and structural
- Representing operative rules with decision tables
Scoping Business Functions

Initiating the process with functional decomposition

- Determining the functional hierarchies
- Distinguishing between functions and processes
Drawing UML use case diagrams

- Defining scope and boundary
- Identifying the actors and stakeholders
- Refining the use cases
Documenting business use cases

- Selecting the level of detail: brief, casual or fully dressed
- Specifying preconditions and postconditions
Modelling Business Processes and Workflows

Applying process modelling techniques

- Workflows
- Events
- Activities
- Decisions
- Sequencing
- Messaging
- Participants
- Tokens
Leveraging Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)

- Benefits from a standardised approach
- Sequencing and classifying activities
- Decomposing activities into subprocesses and tasks
- Categorising events
Refining business process diagrams

- Choosing the right gateway: decisions, forks and joins
- Mapping the processes to swimlanes and pools
- Supplementing the model with data and artefacts: groups and annotations
Analysing the Enterprise Structure

Establishing the business domain

- Documenting the workers and organisation units
- Modelling systems, documents, information and tools
Structuring the enterprise with UML class diagrams

- Determining object attributes
- Constructing associations between the classes
- Packaging for domains and organisation units

Finalising the Business Model

Achieving complete coverage with matrices

- Prioritising features
- Cross-referencing requirements
- Applying the Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RACI)
Contextualising the model with perspectives

- Documenting business interfaces
- Mapping from means to ends
- Capturing time parameters
- Modelling states with the UML State Machine Diagram
- Specifying Supplementary & Quality of Service requirements

Communicating the Model to Key Stakeholders

- Choosing the right models for youraudience
- Transforming business models into user requirements
- Delivering and presenting your models

Available Delivery Options for Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis

Live Instructor Led Classroom Online (Live Online)
Traditional Instructor Led Classroom training (TILT/ILT)
Delivery at your offices in United Kingdom
Private dedicated course for your staff

How many CPD hours does Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis provide?

The 4 day Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis course gives you up to 26.0 CPD hours/structured learning hours.

Do you provide training for Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis?

Yes, we provide corporate training, dedicated training and closed classes for Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis. This can take place anywhere in United Kingdom including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh or live online.

What is the duration of Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis?

The Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis training takes place over 4 day(s), with each day lasting approximately 32.00 hours including breaks.

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