DT offers a core set of courses aimed at covering the Application Lifecycle, from requirements gathering, analysis and design to development, testing, process and project management.

UML with Enterprise Architect for Business Analyst

Course Overview
This course is designed to be an introduction to Enterprise Architect; it is aimed at people who want to quickly gain a proficiency in the use of UML and Enterprise Architect and who have no prior experience in either. The focus will be on the analysis aspects of the UML and Enterprise Architect but also an overview of design aspects so that the analyst has a well rounded knowledge.

What will I learn?
This course is aimed at business analysts who are new to UML and EA and as such it's objectives are to cover the most commonly used diagrams and features in the tool but focussing on requirements analysis. Delegates will gain a practical knowledge of UML and EA to allow them to immediately start working on projects using UML and EA.

Course Style
40% lectures, 60% practical (hands on labs using the Enterprise Architect tool)

Course Contents
Getting Started This module provides a general overview of Enterprise Architect, teaching the student the application's main features.

Diagrams This course will cover the most appropriate UML 2.0 diagrams for business analysts, these are: Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Class diagrams, Object diagrams, Component diagrams, and Interaction Overview diagrams. We will also look at some EA custom diagrams for documenting requirements. The focus will be on how to draw the diagrams as well as when to use the various diagram types.

Documenting a Project This module describes the unique documentation features that are part of the Enterprise Architect application. It covers how to use existing document templates and also how to customise your own templates to get what you need out of the model.

RaQuest In this module we will look at how to use a Sparx sister tool to manage EA requirements and the benefits around this.

Prerequisites

Recommended Follow-On Courses

Duration
2 days