Introduction to Business Analysis
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Course Description:
In this introductory course, you'll delve into the role and responsibilities of the business analyst-the communication link between all business areas and a critical player in project success. Learn techniques for ensuring project success every step of the way-from identifying and analyzing potential projects to making sure that the final project product meets the requirements you identified. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn to define the scope of work and master requirements-gathering techniques that will work for a variety of projects and audiences. You'll consider the unique needs of customers, stakeholders, and the IT department as you work toward building, doc…
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Course Description:
In this introductory course, you'll delve into the role and responsibilities of the business analyst-the communication link between all business areas and a critical player in project success. Learn techniques for ensuring project success every step of the way-from identifying and analyzing potential projects to making sure that the final project product meets the requirements you identified. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn to define the scope of work and master requirements-gathering techniques that will work for a variety of projects and audiences. You'll consider the unique needs of customers, stakeholders, and the IT department as you work toward building, documenting, communicating, and managing requirements.
Course Objectives
- Role of the business analyst
- Build and evaluate a business case
- Plan, manage, analyze, document, and communicate requirements
- Conduct effective interviews, group workshops, and questionnaires
- Data mining
- Effectively capture and document business rules
- Get agreement
- Ensure requirements are met
- Identify Business Analysis (BA) Concepts and Activities in Your Organization
- Propose Project Scope Based on Your Analysis of a Business Architecture, Feasibility Study, and Risk Assessment
- Define Team Roles and Work Division Strategy
- Plan Requirements Activities for a Project
- Plan Scope and Requirements Change Management
- Choose Elicitation Techniques
- Choose Techniques to Structure, Model, and Analyze Requirements
- Identify Project Assumptions and Constraints
- Determine Requirements Verification and Validation Activities
- Draft a Requirements Communication Plan
- Prepare for Requirements Presentation and Sign-off
- Determine Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
- Compile an Individual Professional Skills Inventory
- Produce an Individual Professional Growth Plan
Who Should Attend?
Systems analysts, business analysts, requirements analysts, developers, software engineers, IT project managers, project managers, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, program managers, testers, and QA specialists.
This course includes the following modules:
Overview of Business Analysis
- The solutions lifecycle
- What is business analysis?
- Business analysis terminology
- International Institute of Business Analysis
- CBAP certification
Enterprise Analysis
- Introduction
- Definitions
- The business architecture
- Feasibility studies
- Project scope
- Business case
- Risk assessment
- Decision package
- Selecting and prioritizing projects
Requirements Planning and Management
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Team roles for the project
- Work division strategy
- Requirements risk approach
- Planning considerations
- Requirements activities
- Selection
- Estimation
- Requirements scope
- Requirements activity
- Measurement
- Reporting
- Requirements change management
Requirements Elicitation
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Elicit requirements
- Techniques
- Brainstorming
- Document analysis
- Focus groups
- Interface analysis
- Interviews
- Observation
- Prototyping
- Workshop
- Reverse engineering
- Survey/questionnaire
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Requirements package
- Business domain model
- Analyze user requirements
- Analyze functional requirements
- Analyze quality of service requirements
- Assumptions and constraints
- Requirements
- Attributes
- Document
- Validate
- Verify
- Modeling techniques
- Data and behavior models
- Process/flow models
- Usage models
Requirements Communication
- Introduction
- Definitions
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