Starting With Functional Analysis

What is IT Functional analysis and which skills do you need?

What you'll learn

Learn the basic skills for a good Functional Analyst in IT

Present a clear message to your intended audience: Communication

Engineer correct requirements

Get the basics for necessary modelling skills like UML, BPMN and CMMN

Requirements

Some basic knowledge on software development processes is advised, but not required.

Description

This is the course “Starting with functional analysis”.It’s about what a functional analyst does, and the FA role and responsibilities.First it covers the process of functional analysis in depth.Afterwards it dives into the importance of requirements, and getting the requirements of a project right. Why does one need requirements, how do we describe requirements, and how do we make sure the requirements are valid, correct and remain traceable over the course of the project?The next part of the course is about communication and the importance of being able to communicate on the right level of complexity to the different stakeholders.Next it covers the tools to present a clear message, using use cases and user stories as well as all different UML diagram types and their intended use.After that we go over to Process modeling, explaining the different steps and describing how BPMN and CMMN are structured and used, and are necessary to describe a process or case completely and correctly. Next it covers data modeling and prototyping and wireframes.And last, but not least it teaches how validating the final solution by acceptance testing is the final step towards a successful solution by you as an FA.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Who is your teacher?

Section 2: What is Functional Analysis and what is a Functional Analyst?

Lecture 3 What is Functional Analysis?

Lecture 4 Definition of Functional Analysis in IT

Lecture 5 Why do we need Functional Analysts in IT?

Lecture 6 What is the Functional Analyst Role?

Lecture 7 The responsibilities of the Functional Analyst

Lecture 8 The skills of a Functional Analyst

Lecture 9 Clear communication

Section 3: Getting the FA process right

Lecture 10 Overview of the process

Lecture 11 Steps in the analysis process

Section 4: Getting Requirements right

Lecture 12 Babok definition of requirements

Lecture 13 Why do we need requirements?

Lecture 14 Hierarchy of requirements

Lecture 15 Requirements Discovery

Lecture 16 Requirements refinement

Lecture 17 Requirements modelling

Lecture 18 Prototyping

Lecture 19 SWOT analysis

Lecture 20 Requirements specification and validation

Lecture 21 Requirements traceability

Section 5: Presenting a clear message to your audience

Lecture 22 Use cases

Lecture 23 User stories

Lecture 24 UML diagrams overview

Lecture 25 UML class diagram

Lecture 26 UML Activity diagram

Lecture 27 UML Component diagram

Lecture 28 UML Use Case diagram

Lecture 29 UML State Machine diagram

Lecture 30 UML Sequence diagram

Lecture 31 Business process and case modelling : BPMN and CMMN

Lecture 32 BPMN

Lecture 33 CMMN

Lecture 34 Data modelling DFD and ERD

Lecture 35 Mockup and wireframes

Section 6: Validating the Solution: testing

Lecture 36 Rationale for testing by the FA

Section 7: Conclusion and looking back on the course

Lecture 37 Conclusion and looking back on the course

This course is to get aspiring Functional Analysts on track to Analysis glory.