Course Outline
Defining Business Analysis
Overview of the business analysis discipline
- Key roles and responsibilities
- Differentiating business analysis from other related fields
Introduction to the business analysis framework
- The framework and the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®)
- Industry best practices from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)
Capturing Business Requirements through Elicitation
Collecting business needs at the organizational or departmental level
- Conducting needs analysis
- Selecting the most appropriate elicitation techniques
- Performing enterprise-level contextual analysis using strategic, tactical, and operational tools
Identifying the nine elicitation techniques
- Confirming the necessary steps for information gathering
- Documenting and verifying elicitation outcomes
Conducting Enterprise Analysis
Analysing the business landscape
- Classifying and prioritizing business needs and issues using affinity diagrams
- Evaluating business capabilities and gaps
Recognizing problems and uncovering opportunities
- Revealing the root causes of issues
- Identifying opportunities for growth
- Determining elements of the initial solution scope
- Creating action-oriented business initiatives to address needs and opportunities
Evaluating the feasibility of options
- 2x2 analysis grid
- Prioritization matrices
- Predicting project benefits and costs
Documenting essential project parameters
- Establishing SMART project objectives
- Defining critical project components and deliverables
Planning and Monitoring the Business Analysis Process
Planning for requirements analysis
- Documenting assumptions, ground rules, and templates
- Developing a requirements development plan to steer and manage the process
- Creating the communication plan
Performing stakeholder analysis
- Identifying primary stakeholders
- Assessing the impact stakeholders have on the project
Developing a change management process
- Establishing a baseline for your plan
- Adhering to the defined change management process
- Overseeing the change control process
Managing and Communicating Requirements
Analysing requirements
- Verifying, prioritizing, and organizing requirements
- Drafting the requirements document
- Identifying key relationships through traceability
Executing the communication plan
- Mitigating common pitfalls encountered during requirements development
- Validating the requirements document with key stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder consensus and conflicts
Assessing and Validating Solutions
Allocating requirements
- Maximizing business value
- Evaluating dependencies among individual requirements
Assessing organizational readiness
- Identifying organizational capability gaps
- Defining business and technical organizational impacts
Developing Business Analysis Competencies
- Extending beyond the mechanics of analysis
- Applying the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency framework
Requirements
This course is suitable for individuals seeking a comprehensive understanding of the essential tasks and techniques in business analysis, or for those required to effectively evaluate business options and outcomes.
Testimonials (7)
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Angela - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
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Yogi Apryanto - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
Examples during the presentation was sufficient and knowledgeable, and easy to understand and visualize.
Irvine - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
easier to understand than i though it will be
fadzlyzainalfadilla - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
A lot of new isight
Anggi Anggara - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
How the lecturer explain thing is very clear and not clutered, have many general and specific knowledge about BA's things, learn a lot thing with him.
Kenny - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
Focusing on applying the course on my real work.
