Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Who Are IT Business Analysts? Chapter 2: The BA's Perspective on Object Orientation Chapter 3: An Overview of Business Object-Oriented Modeling (B.O.O.M.) Chapter 4: Analyzing End-to-End Business Processes Chapter 5: Scoping the IT Project with System Use Cases Chapter 6: Storyboarding the User's Experience Chapter 7: Life Cycle Requirements for Key Business Objects Chapter 8: Gathering Across-the-Board Rules with Class Diagrams Chapter 9: Optimizing Consistency and Reuse in Requirements Documentation Chapter 10: Designing Test Cases and Completing the Project Chapter 11: What Developers Do with Your Requirements Appendix A: The B.O.O.M. Process Appendix B: Business Requirements Document (BRD) Template Appendix C: Business Requirements Document Example: CPP Case Study Appendix D: Decision Table Template Appendix E: Test Script Template Appendix F: Glossary of Symbols Appendix G: Glossary of Terms and Further Reading