Course Overview
- Business Analysis basics – Provide the basic understanding of the benefits, functions and the impact a business analyst has within an organization
- Dive into the role and responsibilities of the business analyst (BA)
- The course discusses the business analysis process throughout a project lifecycle as well as the pre-project & the post-project activities
- Learn how a business analyst supports the project throughout the solution development life cycle, from defining business needs & solution scope to validating that requirements have been met in the testing phase & ensuring the solution continues to provide value after implementation
- Learn techniques for ensuring project success in every step of the way-from identifying and analyzing potential projects to make sure that the final project – product meets the requirements identified
- Learn to manage Building, documenting, communicating & requirements
- Have the confidence to successfully facilitate requirements approval meetings
Course Objectives
- Understand the role of the business analyst
- Acquire a solid understanding of the various tasks / activities that comprises business analysis
- A breakdown of project methodologies including traditional Waterfall and Agile frameworks
- Recognize the pre & post project business analysis activities
- Learn how to plan, elicit, analyze & model the requirements
- How to gather, group, prioritize & validate requirements
- Learn about tools and techniques you can use as a Business Analyst
Course Outline
- Introduction to Business Analysis
- Development Life Cycle
- Business analysis Definition
- Business AnalysisImportance
- BA Role & Fundamentals
- BA role vs. PM role
- Strategy Analysis
- Strategy Analysis Definition
- Strategy AnalysisComponents
- Requirements Planning
- Role of the BA in Requirements Planning
- Vision vs. Scope
- Project scope vs. Product scope
- Defining scopeTechniques
- The Requirements Work Plan (RWP)
- Stakeholders Analysis
- Requirements Elicitation
- Role of the BA in Requirements Elicitation
- Elicitation Process
- Elicitation techniques
- Analyzing Requirements
- RequirementsTypes
- Modeling Techniques Value
- Modeling Techniques
- Requirements Prioritization
- Good Requirements Characteristics
- Requirements Risks
- Requirements Documentation
- Importance of Requirement Documentation
- Requirement Documentation types
- Verifying & Validating Requirements
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Requirements Document Sign-Off
Requirements
- • This course covers all of the fundamentals - no prior knowledge is required
Target audiences
- • Aspiring Business Analysts: o Recent fresh graduates o Start a career change. • New Business Analysts wanting to improve their craft. • Other positions that are performing business analysis duties such as o Administrators o Managers o Project leads (Managers). o Scrum masters • Business Analysts seeking to upgrade their skillsets to a BA Leadership position • Systems Architects, Design and Development Teams. • Testing, Support, Integration, Operations and Implementations professionals for standardizing BA Practices.