Business Analyst — Technical Documentation & Specification
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What you'll learn:
- **Description:** Deep dive into advanced techniques for gathering requirements, including facilitation of complex workshops, elicitation techniques for ambiguous or conflicting requirements, and advanced stakeholder management strategies for navigating political landscapes and managing diverse expectations. Focus on practical application and real-world scenarios. - **Resources/Activities:** - **Expected Outcomes:** Mastery of advanced elicitation techniques, improved ability to manage stakeholder expectations and conflict, and the ability to tailor elicitation approaches to complex projects. A documented simulation output demonstrating the application of these techniques.
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- **Description:** Refine skills in writing effective and unambiguous user stories and use cases. Explore advanced techniques for specifying acceptance criteria, defining non-functional requirements (performance, security, etc.) within the context of user stories, and managing dependencies between stories. Learn how to effectively document complex workflows. - **Resources/Activities:** - **Expected Outcomes:** Ability to write clear, concise, and actionable user stories and use cases that meet the needs of developers and stakeholders. Ability to incorporate non-functional requirements and manage dependencies. Deliverable: A set of professionally written user stories and use cases for a provided system.
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- **Description:** Master advanced modeling techniques, including Unified Modeling Language (UML) for system design, Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) for process mapping, and data modeling techniques for representing data structures. Understand the strengths and limitations of each approach and learn how to choose the appropriate model for a given situation. - **Resources/Activities:** - **Expected Outcomes:** Ability to create various diagrams using UML (e.g., class diagrams, sequence diagrams), BPMN (process flows), and ER diagrams. Understanding of when and how to apply each modeling technique for effective documentation and communication. Deliverables: BPMN diagram, UML class diagram, and a simple ERD.
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- **Description:** Deep dive into technical documentation standards, including IEEE 830 and ISO 29148, focusing on structure, content, and best practices for creating high-quality technical specifications. Explore tools and templates for creating maintainable and consistent documentation. - **Resources/Activities:** - **Expected Outcomes:** Thorough understanding of industry standards for technical specifications, ability to create clear, concise, and well-structured specifications, and familiarity with documentation tools and templates. Deliverable: Revised and improved technical specification.
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- **Description:** Explore advanced techniques for managing specifications throughout the project lifecycle, including version control, change management, and impact analysis. Learn how to trace requirements, manage traceability matrices, and effectively communicate changes to stakeholders. - **Resources/Activities:** - **Expected Outcomes:** Mastery of version control techniques for technical specifications, expertise in impact analysis, and the ability to effectively manage changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle. Deliverable: Documentation of the change request process and an updated specification.
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- **Description:** Learn how to effectively review and validate technical specifications to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency. Explore techniques for identifying and resolving ambiguities, inconsistencies, and errors. Understand the importance of peer reviews and other validation methods. - **Resources/Activities:** - **Expected Outcomes:** Ability to conduct thorough and effective reviews of technical specifications, using checklists and other tools to identify errors and ensure quality. Deliverable: A review checklist and a detailed review report.
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- **Description:** Learn how to adapt technical documentation and specification practices to agile and DevOps environments. Focus on the principles of "just enough" documentation, continuous integration, and the use of documentation as code. - **Resources/Activities:** - **Expected Outcomes:** Understanding of how to effectively integrate technical documentation into agile and DevOps workflows, proficiency in "just enough" documentation principles, and basic skills in using documentation-as-code tools. Deliverable: A simple, automatically generated technical documentation site.
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