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Training Course Summary:

The course provides a full understanding of SSADM®’s techniques for process specification and logical process design. It shows the way in which triggering events for functions are identified, and leads on to the detailed specification of both update and enquiry processes.

This course will enable course participants to:

Model the dynamic nature of the system using Entity Life Histories
Specify detailed processing using SSADM®’s Conceptual Process Modelling techniques.

Pre-Requisites:

The Foundation in SSADM®4+ course is an essential precursor and Data Modelling would be useful scene-setter.

Who Should Attend:

The course is intended primarily for systems analysts / designers who wish to become familiar with SSADM®’s techniques for the specification and design of update and enquiry processing.

Training Course Overview/Content:

This course will enable course participants to:

Model the dynamic nature of the system using Entity Life Histories
Specify detailed processing using SSADM®’s Conceptual Process Modelling techniques.

Follow-up Courses

Course participants can choose from a variety of courses leading to the ISEB Diploma in SSADM®4+.


Course Content

Entity Behaviour Modelling

Entity Behaviour and Process
Purpose of Entity Behaviour Modelling
Event Identification and Event Catalogue
Entity Access Matrix
Effects
Jackson Structure notation
Sequence, selection, iteration
Building Entity Life Histories
Birth, mid-life & death events
Parallelism & Alternative Lives
Quit & Resume
Termination Structures and Super Events
Entity Operations and State Indicators
ELHs for Entity Super-Types, Sub-Types and Aspects

Conceptual Process Modelling
Purpose of Conceptual Process Modelling
Building Enquiry Access Paths
Entry points
Access Paths expressed using Jackson notation
Process Operations for data retrieval
Conditions
Building Effect Correspondence Diagrams from ELHs
Entry points
Access Paths expressed using Jackson notation
Correspondence
Effect Qualifiers & Entity Roles
Process Operations for data update
Integrity checking
Conversion of EAPs into Enquiry Process Models
Conversion of ECDs into Update Process Models

Qualifications:

This course will prepare students to take the written examination leading to the ISEB Certificate in Behaviour & Process Modelling.