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Course Title:
Business Systems Design

Duration: 4 days

Course Overview
The course is for staff who are about to enter the field of Business Systems Analysis and Design.
This includes a discussion on what Business Systems Designs is, the techniques used, how it is approached and what is delivered out of it.

Course Objectives


Delegates will be able to participate as a productive member of the design team, exploiting the various techniques that are available to them.

Course Content


Introduction to Business Systems Design
• A discussion on the inputs into the design process
• An overview of the design process and its techniques

Logical Design
• Producing the logical Data Flow Diagram
• Entity Life Histories
• Normalising the Data
• An understanding on what a Entity/Process matrix is and how to create it
• Producing Logical Access Maps and Process Outlines
• Building Statecharts

Physical Data Design
• A look at First cut design
• Placement of data
• Capacity planning
• Archiving
• Backup & Recovery

Software Design
• Defining batch and real time elements
• Software layering

Testing
• Testing consideration for an effective test environment
• Testing Goals and Objectives
• Testing Methods
• Tests Plans

Designing the Interface
• User centered design
• GUI design guidelines
• Usability issues
• Managing prototyping

Other Design Issues
• Manual issues
• Audit & Security
• Testing considerations
• Organisational issues

The Design Specification
• What it is?
• What it contains

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