Onsite Seminars and Courses

Each course focuses on “how to do it”. These seminars and courses are not the Same Old Stuff (with the Same Old Results). These courses deal specifically with how you do what needs to be done. We won’t bore you with all the esoteric theories of analysis and problem solving. You already know that part. We won’t compare one conceptual method against another – you can read a book on those notions. But we will drill home exactly “how to do it” without abstraction and without pain. You will never look back.

202-MBA: Mastering Business Systems Analysis (2 days)

This 2-day workshop - with almost 50% hands-on practice - will show you everything you need to know about applying and implementing really rapid, modern business systems analysis. You'll come away from this workshop eager to start a new client project.  You'll receive a Course Workbook (with complete presentation notes), an illustrated book authored by the developer of the Approach, and a real project example. You will never look back.

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303B: Rapid 'Agile' Business Systems Analysis (3 days)

This 3-day workshop will show you everything you want to know about understanding, applying and implementing really rapid and modern business systems analysis. You will come away from this workshop eager to apply your new knowledge on projects. This session consists of almost 70% workshop.

Participants will learn how to conduct discovery sessions with subject-matter experts; how to find and identify business events; how to document business processes; how to identify the data needed to support the business processes; and how to make sure nothing is missed (errors of omission). And it’s easy.

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101B: How to ‘Jump-Start’ Business Systems Analysis (1 day)

This onsite Briefing Seminar will introduce you to a dynamic, practical and understandable approach to business systems analysis that’s fast, verifiably accurate and suitable to today’s organizations. It will change your view, forever, of what can be done in just a few days.

This Briefing Seminar will quickly show you the elements of a fast, modern approach to business systems analysis. You will learn incredibly fast ways to discover, analyze, understand and document business requirements, and the supporting data, so they can be turned into a functioning system (acquired or custom built) without pain in record time. We will show you a way of guaranteeing that nothing is missed (errors of omission). You will make a quantum leap in a rapid, practical approach to modern business systems analysis. You’ll take home a Briefing Folder (with the Instructor’s presentation notes), an illustrated e-textbook on the approach covered, and a real project example. And you’ll never look back.

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101M: Briefing – The New Business Systems Analysis (1 day)

This Briefing Seminar will show you how to use and implement a remarkably fast, modern approach to business systems analysis in your organization. You will see how to discover and document business requirements, and the data needed to support business processes, so the requirements can be used to acquire or build a system faster than ever before. You see a fast, practical and understandable approach to modern business systems analysis.  

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200F: Fundamental Concepts of Business Systems Analysis (2 days)

This 2-day workshop shows participants exactly what has to be done to use a remarkably fast, modern approach to business systems analysis. Participants will learn how to discover and identify business events, document supporting business processes, identify the data needed to support the business processes, and how to conduct discovery sessions with subject-matter experts. They will learn a fast, practical and understandable approach to modern business systems analysis. Session consists of 50% workshop.

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202U: How to Develop User Requirements Fast (2 days)

This 2-day workshop shows what must be done (with no abstractions) to complete business systems analysis – really, really fast. Participants will learn how to conduct discovery sessions with subject-matter experts; how to find and identify business events; how to document business processes; and how to identify the data needed to support the business processes. Session consists of 50% workshop.

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202B: Business Systems Analysis for the Non-IT Professional  (2 days)

Requirements analysis has traditionally been done by IT professionals. But this does not have to be the case. Non-IT professionals – often with titles like ‘Business Analyst’ – can do the job just as nicely. And nothing will be missed. Let us show you how.

This 2-day workshop, delivered in non-technical language, shows exactly what must be done to complete business systems analysis for a project – really fast. The non-IT participants will learn how to find and identify business events; how to develop business processes; and how to identify the data needed to support the business processes. Everything will be documented in a way that’s understandable to all parties – clients, subject-matter experts and the technical or software engineering team. Session consists of 50% workshop.

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204D: Data Modeling for Business Analysts (2 days)

Sometimes, a data model is more desirable than a business process model. So, who is going to do it? Well, it can be done by just about anyone who wants to create a Business Requirements Document based on the data. Let us show you how.

This 2-day workshop, focusing on the data that’s needed to support specific business requirements, shows exactly what must be done to complete a normalized business data model – really fast. Working with client subject-matter experts (really) participants will learn how to identify the data needed to support a specific business environment. It’s fast; it’s based on essential business requirements; and the resulting data model will be fully normalized. And it’s easy. Session consists of 50% workshop.

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