Business Analysis: Data Flow Diagrams to Visualize Workflows

Process Modeling Techniques for Requirements Elicitation and Workflow Analysis - Now with ChatGPT and Jasper Demos

Created by: Tom and Angela Hathaway
Integrating AI for Business Analysis and UX Mastery

What Will I Learn?

• Document existing business processes and workflows in Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) to initiate business process analysis
• Defend the need for Data Flow Diagrams, Context Diagrams, and Rigorous Physical Process Models
• Use the right symbols for each type of diagram to ensure a common interpretation by all parties
• Explode a high level Data Flow Diagram to its lower level details to reveal underlying processes and procedures
• Balance DFD’s to identify missing processes and reduce late project change requests
• Use Horizontal Balancing to discover missing data and minimize redundancies
• Document process specifications for functional primitives to guide the solution providers
• Express metadata to reveal informational details that developers need to build the solution
• Apply workflow analysis techniques to reveal the cause of business problems, timing anomalies, and error/exception handling processes.
• Leverage the results of workflow analysis to elicit requirements, user stories, scenarios, features, etc.
• Evaluate the use of AI Writer Jasper for AI-Storming Lower-Level Processes for a Detailed DFD

Requirements

• No technical background required
• Need to lead a group of stakeholders through workflow analysis, i.e. in a user story or requirement workshop.
• Desire to present, analyze, and suggest improvements for one or more workflows / business processes
• Interest in the field of business analysis
• No additional materials are required

Target audience

• Business Analysts
• Subject Matter Experts
• Agile Product Owners
• Project Leaders and Managers
• Line Managers
• Systems Analysts
• Software Testers
• Business Architects
• AND "anyone wearing the business analysis hat"