Business Analysis: Data Flow Diagrams to Visualize Workflows

The benefits of process visualization for the business community, the Business Analyst or Product Owner, those tasked with developing the solution, and ultimately the entire organization will be covered in this course - Business Analysis: Data Flow Diagrams to Visualize Workflows.

You'll also learn how to use DFDs to identify and solve some of the most common issues that plague IT projects, such as scope creep, project overruns, and missing or misunderstood requirements.

"Data Flow Diagrams to Visualize Workflows – Simply Put!" says the author of "Business Analysis: Data Flow Diagrams to Visualize Workflows – Simply Put!" uses a concrete business scenario to demonstrate a basic, easy-to-learn way to creating and analyzing Data Flow Diagrams representing workflow and data modification utilizing interviews with domain experts.

You'll learn how to design a Context-Level Data Flow Diagram and explode relevant process(es) to disclose the nitty-gritty detail (i.e., individual process and data specifications) that developers need to create IT solutions that meet the needs of the business community.

The course also teaches you how to perform workflow analysis with a DFD that generates Requirements, User Stories, Features, Scenarios, or whatever other mode you choose to define desired business outcomes for software products.

What you will learn

• To begin business process analysis, document existing business processes and workflows in Data Flow Diagrams (DFD).
• Justify the use of data flow diagrams, context diagrams, and detailed physical process models.
• Use the appropriate symbols for each type of diagram to ensure that everyone understands it.
• To uncover underlying processes and procedures, dissect a high-level Data Flow Diagram to its lower-level details.
• To identify lacking processes and avoid late project modification requests, balance DFDs.
• Horizontal Balancing can be used to find missing data and reduce redundancy.
• To assist solution providers, document process specifications for functional primitives.
• Metadata is used to provide information that developers will need to build the solution.
• Use workflow analysis approaches to figure out what's causing business problems, time issues, and error/exception handling processes.
• Use the findings of the process analysis to elicit requirements, user stories, scenarios, and features, among other things.

Who this course is for

• Business Analysts
• Subject Matter Experts
• Agile Product Owners
• Project Leaders and Managers
• Line Managers
• Systems Analysts
• Software Testers
• Business Architects
• AND "anyone wearing the business analysis hat"

Requirements

• There is no need for a technical background.
• In a user story or requirement workshop, you'll need to lead a group of stakeholders through workflow analysis.
• Desire to present, analyze, and improve one or more workflows or business processes
• Business analysis has piqued my interest.
• There are no additional items necessary.

Instructor: Tom and Angela Hathaway

Udemy rate: 4.5/5.0 (2,092 ratings)

Enroll here: https://www.udemy.com/course/data-flow-diagrams-simply-put/