Data Requirements: An Eight Step Process for Success!

Description

Do you struggle with how to capture data requirements? Do they belong in your use cases? In a glossary? In a list somewhere in your requirements document? In a data dictionary? In a logical data model?

This course provides a detailed eight step process for eliciting, capturing, analyzing, and finally organizing all your data requirements into a domain model. You'll learn how to specify the 'what' in your projects.

Audience

Business analysts, systems analysts, others needing to capture and effectively communicate data requirements

Goals

To provide you with a framework to manage your data requirements activities

To provide you a detailed description of an eight step process for identifying, eliciting, gathering, organizing, and documenting data requirements

After the course, you should be able to:

• perform the eight step process for eliciting, gathering, organizing, and documenting data requirements
• understand the reasons for each step of the process
• understand the format used for each step of the process
• extract data requirements from functional requirements and use cases, business processes
• unambiguously document data requirements for both user interfaces and external systems interfaces
• use the provided templates to identify, elicit, gather, organize, and document data requirements
• create a domain model of the data requirements.

Prerequisites

None

Duration

Two days

A one day version is available for groups where attendees know how to create a data model.