
Understand the content of the course and how it will help you to develop your career in Business Analysis.
Also that the course is highly practical and based on business case studies, so you will learn things that you can apply on projects.
Understand and apply the basic data modelling concepts of Entities and Object Classes.
Start working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand and apply the basic data modelling concepts of Attributes and Keys.
How Attributes define and describe Entities and Classes.
How Keys allow individual instances to be uniquely identified.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand and apply the basic data modelling concepts of Relationships or Associations.
How these reflect business requirements to connect related items of data together.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand and apply the basic data modelling concepts of Relationships Degree or Cardinality.
How to analyse this to reflect business requirements to connect related items of data together.
How to show this on your data model to show an accurate business view of how business data needs to be organised and connected.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand more about the basic data modelling concepts of Relationships Degree or Cardinality.
How to analyse this to reflect business requirements to connect related items of data together.
How to show this on your data model to show an accurate business view of how business data needs to be organised and connected.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand more about the basic data modelling concepts of Relationships Degree or Cardinality.
How to analyse this to reflect business requirements to connect related items of data together.
How to show this on your data model to show an accurate business view of how business data needs to be organised and connected.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
You will understand the background to the Community Library case study, to enable you to complete a number of practical exercises.
Understand how Foreign Keys are used to link related Entities in your Data Model.
How to analyse this to reflect business requirements to connect related items of data together.
How to show this on your data model to show an accurate business view of how business data needs to be organised and connected.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand more about how Foreign Keys are used to link related Entities in your Data Model.
How to analyse this to reflect business requirements to connect related items of data together.
How to show this on your data model to show an accurate business view of how business data needs to be organised and connected.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand more about many to many relationships on a data model and why they need to be analysed in more detail.
How to "resolve" them on a data model with a "link" entity.
How to show this on your data model to show an accurate business view of how business data needs to be organised and connected.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand how to draw a Class Diagram that shows business requirements for a system, using UML (Unified Modelling Language) notation.
Understand and apply the basic data modelling concepts of Associations between Classes.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand and apply the basic data modelling concepts of Attributes, Keys and Foreign keys in a Class Diagram.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand how to use UML (Unified Modelling Language) notation to show classes, attributes and methods / operations in a Class Diagram.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand and apply the basic data modelling concept of Relationship Optionality.
How to analyse this to understand requirements for business constraints and rules.
How to show this on an Entity Relationship Diagram.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand and apply the basic data modelling concept of Relationship Optionality.
How to analyse this to understand requirements for business constraints and rules.
How to show this on an Entity Relationship Diagram.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
Understand and apply the basic data modelling concept of Relationship Optionality.
How to analyse this to understand requirements for business constraints and rules.
How to show this on a Class Diagram using UML notation.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
How to produce additional documentation to support your data diagrams and specify business requirements in more detail.
Understand how to analyse new requirements and construct a data model for the Required System.
How to analyse requirements in more detail to ensure that they reflect what the business needs.
Continue working through the business case study - based on a College Administration System.
If you are a practising or aspiring Business Analyst this course will help you to develop your career. Learn an essential Business Analysis technique - Data Modelling - from the ground up. Starting with the basic concepts, by the end of the course you will be able to construct data models that accurately reflect business requirements. You will understand how to use both "traditional" Entity Relationship Diagrams and "object oriented" UML (Unified Modelling Language) Class Diagrams. You will be able to apply all of this is practice on systems development projects.
Contents include:
Basic Concepts of Data Modelling.
Business Data Requirements - Entities and Classes.
Business Data Requirements - Attributes.
How To Link Things Together - Relationships.
Business Rules - Optionality.
Requirements Analysis.
Some student reviews:
Very good match for me! A team mate that does modelling tried to teach me and I didn't understand. This course had me understanding from the first section. Thanks!
- Lori.
The instructor explained the concepts and worked through examples for better understanding. This course is awesome!!!
- Joe.
This is the BEST COURSE on Data Modelling. It teaches about : Entity, Attributes, Records, Entity Relationship Diagram .....
The instructor has explained all these lucidly and with practical examples.
- Parna
Course Benefits
The course is highly practical and case study based. You will have plenty of chances to apply and consolidate your new skills. The course includes practical assignments which you can complete and receive feedback. Your tutor, Steve McIntosh, will give you as much help and support as you need.
So - if you want to learn something useful, that you can apply in practice and will help to develop your career as a Business Analyst - please dive in and join the course. I look forward to working with you!