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Data Models for Product Owners & Business Analysts
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(90 ratings)
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Data Models for Product Owners & Business Analysts

Learn to read a Data Model
Created byClément Fiocre | Data | API | Business Intelligence | Low Code
Last updated 7/2026
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What you'll learn

  • Read a Data Model
  • Identify Modeling Standards
  • Read an Entity-Relationship Diagram
  • Read a Merise Diagram
  • Read a UML Diagram

Course content

3 sections • 17 lectures • 1h 24m total length

  • Introduction2:22

    Explore data modeling essentials for product owners and business analysts, from generalities and quick wins to reading data models and applying ERD, MERIS, and UML.

  • What will reading data models bring you?4:49

    Learn how reading a data model helps product owners and business analysts understand the scope of information, verify IT understanding, reuse models, and reduce costly mistakes in projects.

  • An example to get started7:22

    Explore a practical data modeling example using a library to differentiate conceptual and physical books, describe objects, attributes, and relationships, and learn to read data models.

  • How to skim through a data model?6:46

    Skim a data model by mapping each object to CRUD screens and exploring cardinalities between people, groups, and countries. Visualize hierarchies from continents to countries to people to reinforce understanding.

  • Skim through a data model
  • What are the differences between a conceptual model and a physical model?5:13

    Understand how conceptual data models describe information while physical data models describe databases, and why consistency, maturity, and denormalization matter across ERD, UML, Mauryas under IT constraints.

  • Conceptual vs. Physical
  • Advantages
  • On which projects is data modeling essential?5:36

    Discover where data modeling adds the most value for product owners and business analysts, especially in reference and decision-making areas like master data and dashboards.

  • Concerned Project

Requirements

  • No prerequisites

Description

You are a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Project Manager, and you've just joined a data-intensive project. While applying your usual methods for requirements gathering or project management, you gradually notice that your technical teams frequently ask you to review or approve a specific type of deliverable: the data model.

In your previous experiences, although you may have encountered such documents before, you hadn't recognized their crucial importance. However, in this current context, you realize that this deliverable plays a central and structuring role. As the project lead and decision-maker, you understand that grasping this model will give you better visibility over the entire project.

Yet, the domain seems vast and complex, and you don't feel the need to become an expert. You’re wondering where to start without dedicating too much time.

In this training that I’m offering, we will approach data modeling in an accessible way, focusing on what is essential for you as the project lead. This training breaks down the fundamental concepts of data modeling and explores the most commonly used modeling languages.

By the end of this training, you will be able to understand 80 to 90% of the data models presented to you.

Allow me to introduce myself: I am Clément Fiocre, with 20 years of experience in functional architecture and data management. As a certified adult trainer, I will be with you throughout this training to guide you and equip you with the necessary knowledge to effectively manage your project.

Who this course is for:

  • Product Owner
  • Business Analyst
  • Project Manager
  • Manager
  • Beginner developer

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