Duration
3 days
Course Description
Today more than ever the world is moving towards project-based work. The jobs of business analysts and solution builders are intermingled with project environments and management of projects. The Business Analysis training workshop has recognized the need to educate and certify the role of the business analyst as viewed through the lens of the project. They have highlighted specific knowledge areas, skills, and published materials which describe the value of business analysis to projects, and built the Business Analysis Professional certification around them.
Effective management of a project’s requirements—particularly as they change—can ensure that deliverables accurately align with the stated needs. You will learn to identify and manage project stakeholders, and to manage requirements throughout your project. You will gain the skills to implement a requirements management process, including traceability, change control, verification and validation, and understand the use of progressive elaboration. Return to your workplace with best practices for managing requirements throughout the project life cycle.
Participants learn how a business analyst supports the project throughout the solution development life cycle, from defining business needs and solution scope to validating that requirements have been met in the testing phase and ensuring the solution continues to provide value after implementation. After completing this course, participants will fully understand the characteristics of the business analyst role and the components that comprise the profession of business analysis. Students will obtain a solid working vocabulary to enable effective communication about business analysis activities and deliverables across the project team.
BENEFITS
- Improve your chances of success with the certification process
- Use practical, real–world methods for improving testing success
- Apply the learned processes when you manage a business analysis project in real life
- Use visual diagrams to guide you through any business analysis activity, with the related inputs and outputs relationships
- Produce needed models to initiate, plan, execute, business analysis projects in real life
- Understand business process analysis
- Requirement Management: Prioritizing requirements and displaying the cost-benefit involved, thereby getting stakeholder buy-in. These are skills needed for effective requirements management
- Processes: Capability to use a formal process to ensure requirements validation for projects
- Expectation: Having integration of requirements management and business analysis with project management
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with stakeholders to lead continuous flow of requirements
BASIC ROLES OF BUSINESS ANALYST
BEST PRACTICES FOR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS
COURSE OUTLINE
DAY 1Module 1 – Overview and Introduction to Business Analysis
- About Business Analysis
- Business Analysis Preparation Overview, Domains, Terminology
- Predictive Life Cycle
- Adaptive Life Cycle
- Business Analysis and Analyst
- Guide to Tools and Techniques
- Guide to Project Life Cycle Approaches
Module 2 – Business Analysis & Key Concepts Overview
- The role and competencies of the business analyst
- The Systems/Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Project & Requirements Life Cycle Management
- Requirements Engineering basics
- Levels of requirements, tool and techniques
- Perspectives, systems, processes, and actors
Module 3 - The Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
- Plan Business Analysis Approach
- Plan Business Analysis Stakeholder Engagement
- Plan Business Analysis Governance
- Plan Business Analysis Information Management
- Plan Business Analysis Performance Measurement
Module 4 - Requirements Analysis Methodology
- Contexts within which requirements analysis is performed
- Stakeholder identification
- Initial assessment by document (if any) review, and planning
- Measuring requirements quality
- Requirements parsing analysis
- Functional analysis - needs analysis, operational analysis, use cases
- Rest of scenario analysis
- Other requirement constraints search
- Stakeholder value analysis
- Methods of engaging in requirements dialog
- Verification requirements development
- Special issues of the human interface
- Common pitfalls in requirements analysis
Module 5 – Business Analysis Techniques
- Elicitation & Collaboration techniques
- Diagramming and modeling techniques
- Root cause analysis techniques
- Acceptance and evaluation definition techniques
- Post-project assessment techniques
Module 6 – Business Analysis & Underlying Competencies
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Behavioral Characteristics
- Business Knowledge
- Communication Skills
- Interaction Skills
- Tools and Technology
NOTEActivities on case study, brainstorming, high team interaction and role-plays will be incorporated during training session with all participants to further facilitate and strengthen candidates understanding on Business Analysis concepts and methodology in an overall manner.
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.