Generating Documentation with Enterprise Architect

Course Overview
The generation of quality documentation to a recognised corporate standard is a very important task in systems design. This course explores the techniques for producing quality documentation using Enterprise Architect.

 

What will I learn?
Suitable For

• Business Analysts

• System Architects

• Developers

As part of the course the instructor will be able to offer advice of how to produce documentation for attendee’s specific projects.

Deliverables:- All attendees will be provided with

• a printed bound copy of all course material including exercises

• electronic Enterprise Architect project

 

Course Style
50% lectures, 50% practical. The course is delivered using a mixture of formal instruction and practical exercises. The emphasis is on the practical aspects of producing documentation using Enterprise Architect and attendees will be provided with an electronic Enterprise Architect project for their practical exercises.

Attendees are also encouraged to bring their own Enterprise Architect projects, and if applicable their own documentation templates to supplement their practical experience.

Course Contents

• Overview of producing documentation using Enterprise Architect

• HTML documentation

• Customisation of the output of HTML documentation

• RTF documentation using the templates as supplied with Enterprise Architect

• Producing customised templates

  • Selecting the content

  • Specifying the data to be output

  • Formatting the output

  • Use of tables

• Filtering and selecting the project content using report options, properties and model documents

• Use of model documents, Enterprise Architect master documents and Word master documents

• Fine tuning of documentation output by using RTF bookmarks

• Introduction to producing Word documents directly by using an Add-In to Enterprise

Prerequisites
Attendees to this course should be familiar with Enterprise Architect (version 7.1 and above).
 

Recommended Follow-On Courses
No recommended follow on courses - at this time

Duration
1 day

 

Cost £395 plus VAT per person for scheduled training. If you require a quote for onsite training please contact us

Recommended reading & follow on courses   Testimonials ‘An excellent course, with the right balance of UML theory and practical exercises with the EA CASE tool. This course has equipped us well for using the EA and the UML in the requirements, design and implementation phases of our software life-cycle. Top marks to the consultant who delivered the course – an extremely knowledgeable and engaging tutor.’ David Armstrong Principle Software Engineer Xyratex Technology Limited   "An enjoyable well balanced course delivered by a knowledgeable trainer, Malcolm Matthews, and pitched at the right level for BA's new to both UML and EA". Julian Hodge Bank   “We have recently upgraded our corporate version of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (from 6.1 to 7.1 – moving from .eap to DBMS repository) and have a number of new team members who are new to EA. To make sure all our Applications Analysts attain foundation level understanding of the functionality of EA when used for Object Orientated Analysis and Design. We chose Dunstan Thomas to deliver our in-house training and have been very please with the results. During the four day course the trainer (Malcolm Matthews) adapted the speed and content to suit our needs and was happy to focus on areas where we had found issue or had concerns. We also send two team members (who will be our Administrators of EA) onto the EA for Power Users course and again the trainer (Stuart Trotter) was happy to adapt and focus on areas of functionality, with plenty of hands on demonstrations of EA. As a result we have a greater confidence in our abilities to work with EA going forward and believe Dunstan Thomas played a key role in making this possible.” David Jenkinson Senior Applications Analyst, Expert Services William Hill Organization plc   Who has been on this course before