Model Online / On-Site
Duration
Modules 4 modules

About the Course

Systems analysis serves as the vital bridge between business stakeholders and software engineering teams by translating business goals into unambiguous technical specifications. This hands-on course walks step-by-step through taking a business request from process flows down to database schemas, REST API contracts, and UML Sequence diagrams.

Working through an end-to-end project case study, participants design wireframes, ERD data models, JSON payloads, and integration error-handling rules.

Target Audience and Prerequisites

  • Business analysts, systems analysts, and junior architects seeking stronger technical analysis skills
  • Product specialists who collaborate closely with engineering teams on APIs, databases, and integrations
  • Basic familiarity with the software development life cycle (SDLC) is sufficient

Key Takeaways

  • UML and BPMN Modeling: Model workflows with BPMN and system interactions using Use Case, Activity, and Sequence diagrams
  • Data and Database Analysis: Design relational data models (ERD), map entity relationships, and validate data rules using SQL concepts
  • API and Integration Design: Document RESTful API endpoints, HTTP methods/status codes, and JSON request/response contracts
  • Technical Specification: Produce developer-ready and QA-testable system specification packages

Curriculum

From Business Requirements to System Models with BPMN & Use Cases
  • Distinguishing business requirements from system specifications and defining the system boundary
  • Modeling workflows and user/system swimlanes using BPMN 2.0
  • Creating UML Use Case diagrams and detailing primary, alternative, and exception flows
Data Modeling, ERD, and User Interface Specification
  • Conceptual and logical data modeling using Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERD) and UML Class Diagrams
  • Building data dictionaries, field validation rules, and UI-to-database field mapping matrices
  • Essential SQL querying concepts and referential integrity analysis for systems analysts
System Interactions, Sequence Diagrams, and REST API Analysis
  • Analyzing synchronous request-response versus asynchronous event/queue architectures
  • Drawing UML Sequence Diagrams to capture message flows across frontend, backend services, and databases
  • REST API specification: HTTP verbs, JSON payload contracts, reading OpenAPI/Swagger specs, and status codes
Integration Resilience, Error Handling, and End-to-End Case Study
  • Specifying timeout, retry, idempotency, and audit logging rules for third-party system integrations
  • Incorporating authentication/authorization (OAuth2 / JWT) and data masking rules into system specs
  • Hands-on workshop: assembling a complete system analysis package for a digital product module

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