Class Schedule

 

ITEC 630/455 Fall 2015

Business Process Analysis

 

Tuesdays 5:30-8:00 PM

Classroom: KSB 39

 Professor: J. Alberto Espinosa

Office Hours: See Blackboard

Last updated 11/9/2015 - Minor updates

 

[Syllabus] [Term Project] [Teams] [FSIT Lab]

 

Wk Date Topic Readings Lecture Slides Other Materials
& Links		 Assignment
Due
Introduction and Business Process Analysis
1 9/1
Course Introduction
   INTR

 
2 9/8 Business Process Modeling


BPA 1 Some BPM
Guidelines		 Teams Formed
LAB Exercise 1
- Intro to MS Visio modeling
- Drawing BPM diagrams
- Drawing Ideation Scenarios in iRise
3 9/15 Business Process Analysis

Class Exercise 2
Project Identification and Selection		 Armour
Ch. 3		 BPA 2 Projects Selected & Assigned
System Requirements Analysis
4 9/22

System Requirements Analysis Overview
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Elicitation

Class Exercise 3
Requirements Elicitation
Visit:  TBA

 Armour
Ch. 6		 SRA 1
SRA 3
SRA 4

Volere Requirements Resources

 HW1 DUE
BPM
(Blackboard)
5 9/29

Use Case Modeling

 Armour
Ch. 1,2		 SRA 5
SRA 7


Visio
Guidelines

  
LAB Exercise 4
- More MS Visio modeling
- Use Case and other UML diagrams
6 10/6

Use Case Modeling Process
Base Use Cases

Class Exercise 5
Use Case Modeling
Visit:  TBA

 Armour
Ch. 5, 7, 8
SRA 8
 Use Case Resources

Project
Deliverable 1

7 10/13 LAB Exercise 6
iRise
Demo and Training on
doing Requirements Analysis Visually		  
  HW2 DUE
UC Modeling
(Blackboard)

Pre-training iRise exercises DUE
8 10/20 Elaborated Use Cases
System Development Life Cycle
Transitional Artifacts

 Class Exercise 7
Use Case Elaboration

Visit:  Larry Fitzpatrick [Bio]
 Senior VP and General Manager
Agile Technology Sectore
 NCI
 Armour Ch. 9, 10 (p.165-175), 14, 15

Review
Appendix C 		SRA 9 SRA 2
SRA 6		 - Object Mgmt Group
- UML Forum
- UML Resource Page
- eXtreme Progr
- Agile Modeling		 Project
Deliverable 2
Data Requirements Analysis
9 10/27 Data Trends
Data Modeling Basics
Developing Data Models

Optional: Hoffer
data modeling chapter

DR 1
DR 3
DR 4

  

HW3 DUE
UC Elaboration
(Blackboard)

Start working on Project
Deliverable 5
(see below)
LAB Exercise 8
Data Modeling (ERDs)
10 11/3 Modifying Data Models
CRUD Matrix
Brief review for exam

Armour
Ch. 12


DR 5
DR 6

 Visio
Guidelines for Data Modeling (ERDs)

ERD
Examples

Project
Deliverable 3
LAB Exercise 9
 iRise Practice: Graphics and Decisions
11 11/10

LAB Exercise 10
 iRise Practice: Datasheet Operations

   DR 2
DR 7
DR 8

HW4 DUE
Data Modeling
(Blackboard)

Formal Requirements
Milestone Presentation
to Clients

Database Concepts
Normalization
- Review Exam 
- Data Modeling wrap up
12 11/17

Exam

 Project
Deliverable 4a
11/24 Thanks Giving Break (no class -- Friday classes meet on Tuesday instead)
Interface Analysis & Other Issues
13 12/1


Interface Analysis
Enterprise Process Analysis
The Business Analysis Profession
Activity Diagrams
Test Cases

Project Review

Course Wrapup

Optional: Hoffer
normalization chapter

 IA
BPA 3
BPA 4
SRA 13 		 

Project
Deliverable 4

Formal Requirements Milestone with Clients
14 12/8

Term Project Presentations

 

Note: final project presentations will take place at the respective clients' sites at a date agreed upon with the client and the professor. This date MUST be no earlier than after Thankgiving and no later than the schedued final exam date.

Due when:

  • Presentation Slides, iRise simulation and project document final draft (day of the presentation)

  • Final project document (day of final exam per the Registrar)

 

 

Due:

Final Project iRise Simulation, Project Document and Client Presentation Slides
12/9 Study Day
Other Topics to Cover if Time Permits
   

Included Use Cases
Generalizations

Class Exercise 12
Normalized Data Models

Review for final presentations

 SRA 10
SRA 12		 International Institute of Business Analysis (iiBA)

iiBA Body of Knowledge 		 
   

Cost Estimation
- Project Issues
- Estimating effort
- Estimating cost

Course Wrap-up

PA

 Cost Estimation Example & Function Points & Use Case Points Sheets  
LAB Lecture (no exercise)
- More MS Visio modeling

Client Interviews and
Requirements Elicitation

Guests:
TBA
(Deloitte)

Class Exercise 11
Client Interviews