This Business Analysis course is designed to provide key fundamental concepts of Business Analysis. The role of the business analyst has evolved into that of a business liaison between the non-technical user community and the technical solution providers. This course provides introductory coverage of the knowledge and skills essential to business analysts today and the foreseeable future. Participants will gain a fundamental understanding of business analysis, elicitation techniques, communications and business modeling skills. This course aligns with BABOK v3.0. This course is endorsed by the IIBA® and offers 16 CDU credits | 16 PDU's from PMI .
 

Upon completion of this Business Analysis course, students will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of business analysis
  • The Business Analyst role
  • Best practices described in the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®)
  • Understanding processes, projects, the Solution Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and the requirements' model
  • Discuss how requirements errors impact project success and failure
  • Communications for the Business Analyst
• Learn key elements to a Solution Development Life Cycle
  • Defining the project's goal, scope and real business need
  • Identify Project Stakeholders, constraints, and benefits
  • Documenting the requirements in the initiation phase
• Eliciting Functional and Non-functional Requirements
  • Challenges with requirements elicitation
  • Techniques for eliciting customer requirements
  • Modeling processes, analyzing gaps, and generating questions
  • Analyzing and reviewing documents and artifacts
• Requirements verification and validation techniques

• Overview
  • Business Analyst Role
  • IIBA Knowledge areas
  • Solution Development Life Cycle
  • Project Success/Failure Lessons
• Strategy Analysis
• Communications
  • Meetings, Presentations, Documentation
  • Communication Styles
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Documentation Strategy
• Requirements Planning
• Requirements Elicitation Techniques
  • Interviewing
  • Prototyping
  • Use Cases Modeling
  • Collaborative Workshops
  • Work Breakdown Structure
  • Business Process Analysis
• Requirements Document
• Requirements Verification
• Fundamentals of Testing
• Practical Application Sessions
  • Assess your BA practices
  • Create a project charter
  • Conduct a project with limited communications
  • Determine your own Communication Style
  • Interview a project sponsor and build a product
  • Perform a document analysis
  • Create a Business Process model
  • Develop a high-level Requirements Document
  • Create an agenda for a requirements review session

• New business analysts or those that are preparing to become a business analyst.
• Business customers, users, project managers, systems architects and developers that are responsible for understanding business needs and would like to upgrade their business analysis skills.

No certification available.

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