Course Overview

The Systems Modelling Techniques course provides delegates with a proven set of modelling techniques to use when specifying IT systems. It uses selected models from the UML (Unified Modelling Language), which has become a standard for systems specification. Key areas of the course include:

• Use case diagrams
• Use case descriptions
• Analysis class diagrams
• Interaction diagrams
• Activity diagrams
• State machines

Combined with Systems Development Essentials this module provides participants with a complete systems analysis course.
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This is a Systems Modelling Techniques course by Uplatz. 

Systems modelling

• The importance of modelling and modelling standards
• Models of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Interaction of selected UML models

Modelling functionality

• Use cases diagrams
• Actors and the system boundary
• Modelling functional scope
• Use case descriptions - structure and contents
• Use case descriptions - defining the main and alternative flows
• The <> and <> constructs
• Activity diagrams - notation
• Using activity diagrams to model use case descriptions
• Using activity diagrams to model processing

Static data modelling

• Objects and classes
• Class diagrams and object diagrams
• Representing classes - name, attributes and operations
• Defining attributes - adornments
• Abstraction and Encapsulation
• Associations - structural, association and aggregation
• Defining multiplicities
• Generalisation and inheritance
• Understanding polymorphism

• Cross-referencing models with CRUD
• State machine diagrams modelling object lifecycles
• Realising use cases with interaction models
• Sequence and communication diagrams
• Interaction fragments, including opt, alt and loop
• How interaction models populate class operations during design

• Phases and workflows of the Unified Process
• Models in the Unified Process
• The bridge to design, software package selection and development