Event Modeling: A Power Vehicle for Navigating Requirements

This instructor-led eLearning experience is a specially designed version of EBG's instructor-led one-day course Event Modeling: A Power Vehicle for Navigating Requirements. To participate, all you need is an Internet connection and a telephone.

Events provide a "navigation system" for identifying and tracking the business behavior of an application. Event modeling is a fast, powerful, practical way to uncover requirements, prioritize releases, and size a project. Event modeling also helps technical and business stakeholders communicate, organize, and track requirements and stay on track during development.

In this course you'll learn how event modeling is valuable for many types of projects: new development, selecting COTS (commercial off-the-shelf software), and enhancements. You'll explore eliciting events (business, temporal, and signal) to scope a project and clarify system boundaries. You'll extend the event analysis to responses, participants, and data. You'll also evaluate when, where, and how events are useful for navigating to other requirements models, including process maps, business rules, and user interfaces. The course uses the EBG Requirements Roadmap* to aid in navigating among the models.

In this carefully designed and executed learning environment you'll participate in interactive discussions, complete practice exercises, and evaluate sample results.

This course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) and aligns with the IIBA's Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®) applicable tasks and techniques. You'll earn 4 PDs (Professional Development) hours or 4 CDUs (Continuing Development Units) for attending this course.

*The EBG Requirements Roadmap is a set of interrelated models (behavioral, structural, dynamic, and control) at varying levels of detail.

• Describe how events aid analysis and development work
• Visualize and define events and responses
• Verify events using state details
• Explain how events scope a project and partition delivery into multiple releases 

Part I

1. Event Fundamentals

• The event-response mechanism
• EBG Requirements Roadmap and model views

2. Modeling Events

• Event participants
• Eliciting events
• Visualizing events on the context diagram
• The event-response table
  Part II

3. Modeling Events (cont.)

• Verifying events with data
• Balancing events with state
• Partitioning events
• Tracing events across requirements models
• Evaluating ways to detail events

4. Leveraging Events

• Event modeling benefits
• Events across the project life cycle
• Project management benefits