System Architect

Business Process Modeling for System Architect Users using Process Flow Maps
Understanding and documenting business processes is critical for process improvement, for building requirements for change, or in preparation for meeting the goals of Sarbanes-Oxley. This two-day course teaches an approach for analyzing and documenting your business processes and explores using organization charts, events, process decomposition diagrams, and process flow maps. We’ll show you how to add custom features to your process flow maps to capture opportunities for improvement, business rules, and risks and controls.
Length: 2 days
Number of students: 15

UML Methods for System Architect Users
This three-day course introduces the concepts of OOA&D and describes how you can use System Architect to build UML-compliant diagrams and definitions. The course focuses on use case diagrams, activity diagrams and class diagrams, but also includes design diagram types such as component diagrams and sequence diagrams.
Length: 3 days
Number of students: 15

Data Modeling and Database Design for System Architect Users
This two-day course teaches the basics of data modeling, including conceptual, logical and physical modeling techniques using System Architect. You’ll work with System Architect to define entities and attributes, learn about subject areas and project data models, and use automated features to transition to a physical model and generate DDL. The course includes reverse data engineering.
Length: 2 days
Number of students: 15

Repository Management for System Architect Users
Understanding the need for managing and sharing information in System Architect’s repository is critical for smooth project management as well as for re-use across projects. This two-day course outlines the factors critical to repository management and includes a workshop for defining your repository management processes.
Length: 2 days
Number of students: 15

Building Enterprise Architectures with System Architect
This three-day course includes a discussion of the importance of Enterprise Architectures as well as of various frameworks that can apply to different situations. It touches on topics such as identifying the scope, building business models, architecture standards, reference models, asset reuse, managing architecture change, and making the architecture available to business users. We show how to use System Architect’s capabilities to design and document the architecture that fits your needs, as well as how to build the information that will populate the architecture.
Length: 3 days
Number of students: 15

A Proven Requirements Analysis Process for System Architect
This three-day course describes DEA’s LINKProcess™ for business analysis and requirements definition. This process, honed over our 12 years of project work, has been tailored to take advantage of System Architect’s capabilities as well as to include best practices. The process begins with understanding a business need, and includes the requirements review cycle and change management. Hands-on worksessions provide practice in applying the techniques and in using System Architect.
Length: 3 days
Number of students: 15

General Information
We can bring education to your site for projects teams of up to fifteen people.  Pricing includes student materials and shipping. Travel expenses for the instructor are additional.