Class Schedule

 

ITEC 455 Spring 2015

Business Process Analysis

 

Tuesdays 11:45 AM - 2:25 PM

Classroom: KSB 39

 Professor: J. Alberto Espinosa

Office Hours: See Blackboard

Last updated 4/7/2015 (minor edits)

 

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

 

Wk Date Topic Readings Lecture Slides Other Materials
& Links
Assignment
Due
Introduction and Business Process Analysis
1 1/13
Course Introduction

  INTR

 

2 1/20 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 1/27 Business Process Analysis

Class Exercise 2

Project Identification and Selection
Visit: 
Jimmy Ellis
(project client - 1st. visit)
(AU's Manager of Student Retention and Success)
Armour
Ch. 3
BPA 2 Projects Selected & Assigned
System Requirements Analysis
4 2/3

System Requirements Analysis Overview
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Elicitation

Class Exercise 3
Requirements Elicitation
Visit: 
Kamalika Sandell, Laurie Ambach, Randy Saba & Francesco DeLeo
(project mentors/OIT)

Armour
Ch. 6
SRA 1
SRA 3
SRA 4

Volere Requirements Resources

HW1 DUE
BPM
(Blackboard)
5 2/10

Use Case Modeling

Armour
Ch. 1,2
SRA 5
SRA 7


Visio
Guidelines

Project
Deliverable 1
LAB Exercise 4
- More MS Visio modeling
- Use Case and other UML diagrams
6 2/17

Use Case Modeling Process
Base Use Cases
Elaborated Use Cases

Class Exercise 5
Use Case Modeling
Visit: 
Jimmy Ellis
(project client - 2nd visit)
(AU's Manager of Student Retention and Success)

Exercise and guest visit cancelled due to weather closure

Armour
Ch. 5, 7, 8

SRA 8
SRA 9
Use Case Resources

HW2 DUE
UC Modeling
(Blackboard)

7 2/24 LAB Exercise 6
iRise
Demo and Training on
doing Requirements Analysis Visually
 
  Pre-training iRise exercises DUE

Project
Deliverable 2
8 3/3 System Development Life Cycle
Transitional Artifacts

Class Exercise 7
Use Case Elaboration

Jimmy Ellis
(project client - 2nd visit rescheduled from 2/17 due to weather)
Armour Ch. 9, 10 (p.165-175), 14, 15

Review
Appendix C
SRA 2
SRA 6
- Object Mgmt Group
- UML Forum
- UML Resource Page
- eXtreme Progr
- Agile Modeling
HW3 DUE
UC Elaboration

(Blackboard)
3/10 Spring Break
Information and Data Requirements
9 3/17 Data Trends
Data Modeling Basics
Developing Data Models

Optional: Hoffer
data modeling chapter

DR 1
DR 3
DR 4

 

Project
Deliverable 3

Start making
progress towards
Project
Deliverable 5

(see below)

LAB Exercise 8
Data Modeling (ERDs)
10 3/24 Modifying Data Models
CRUD Matrix

Brief review for exam

Armour
Ch. 12


DR 5
DR 6

Visio
Guidelines for Data Modeling (ERDs)


ERD
Examples

HW4 DUE
Data Modeling
(Blackboard)

LAB Exercise 9
iRise Practice: Graphics and Decision
11 3/31

Exam

Formal Requirements
Milestone with Clients
11 4/7

Client Interviews and
Requirements Elicitation

Guests:
Joel Croft
Alex Germany-Wald
(Deloitte)

Class Exercise 11
Client Interviews

Optional: Hoffer
normalization chapter

 

Project
Deliverable 4a

Formal Requirements
Milestone with Clients

Interface Analysis & Other Issues
13 4/14

LAB Exercise 10
iRise Practice: Datasheet Operations

  DR 2
DR 7
DR 8

Project
Deliverable 4

Formal Requirements
Milestone Presentation
to Clients

Database Concepts
Normalization
- Review Exam 
- Data Modeling wrap up
14 4/21

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

Class Exercise 12
Normalized Data Models

Review for final presentations

BPA 3
BPA 4
IA
SRA 10
SRA 13
International Institute of Business Analysis (iiBA)

iiBA Body of Knowledge
Project
Deliverable 5
4/28 Study Day  
  5/5

Term Project Presentations

 

 

Final Client
Presentations in Class

Due:

Final Project Specifications

Other Topics to Cover if Time Permits
   


Final Presentations Practice
Client Interviews and Requirements Elicitation Methods

 

 

 

   
   

Cost Estimation
- Project Issues
- Estimating effort
- Estimating cost

Course Wrap-up

 

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