The business analyst

Information technology's paradigm shift

Vernon Zwiers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2011
Juta Legal and Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7021-8861-9 (ISBN)

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The business analyst: information technology's paradigm shift completely dissolves the perception that the IT industry dictates to businesses what IT systems they will use and dispels the myth that business users and IT technicians are from different planets. It suggests how to create an environment in which everybody works together in an exciting and refreshing way - a paradigm shift in the way business analysis projects are done. The IT industry has to move to a point where it realises that the users of IT systems and the technical personnel are both equally responsible for getting the system to work. The users of the IT system should be an integral part of the team when the system is being put together. This, unfortunately, is not the norm within the industry. It is the business analyst's responsibility, among others, to make sure that communication flows freely between all the parties involved. This titl gives the business analyst the tools and techniques to find out what the business users of IT systems really need and to guide the project to meet those needs.

Vernon Zwiers owns a training and consultancy company, DenVer Project Management and Professional Services. He has written a successful course on business analysis and design techniques on which this book is based. The course is also published internationally in partnership with Trinity Business Solutions. He lectures, consults and works in the industry, locally and internationally, as a business analyst and project manager. He is on the Academic Advisory Committee for Tshwane University of Technology and runs a corporate mentorship project.ip project.

The business analyst's bread and butter: Introduction to business analysis, its origins and growth; introduction to the role of the business analyst; communication; listening - plain and simple; the interview or meeting - managing one-on-one interactions; facilitation; meetings; the business analyst's golden meeting - the joint application development (JAD) session; what most people fear - the presentation. The business analyst's tools of the trade - Unified modelling language (UML) methodology seen from the perspective of enhancing communication: Work products - communication for posterity; Unified Modelling Language is a complete paradigm shift; Business process modeling - understanding what business wants; UML - The use case diagram - continuing to understand what business wants; UML - the sequence diagram - moving to the next level from the use case; UML - the communication diagram - a close relative of the sequence diagram; the activity diagram - what lies hidden to the user behind the use case?; UML - the state machine diagram - another way of working with objects; UML - the class diagram - the building blocks of the design; UML - the remaining structure-type diagrams from the class diagram onwards; UML - the last two diagrams - Micro-timing; UML - the process of weaving the tapestry together. The advanced aspects of UML: Unified Modelling Language Methodology - digging into the insides of UML: How UML fits together - interlocking the puzzle pieces; the practical application of UML in projects - an asset for your company; UML - robustness analysis - completing the circle of the process; UML - moving into the problem domain - building the classes to make things work; passing the benefit to.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2011
Verlagsort	Kenwyn
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► UML
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
ISBN-10	0-7021-8861-1 / 0702188611
ISBN-13	978-0-7021-8861-9 / 9780702188619
Zustand	Neuware