Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects Training Course
This course will show you how to:
- Perform key functions of the business analyst by applying a solid business analysis framework
- Conduct a business needs analysis to elicit stakeholder requirements
- Apply business analysis techniques to identify key problems and potential opportunities in your enterprise
- Create effective requirements and communication plans
- Analyse and specify requirements using industry best practices
- Manage solution assessment and validation
Course Outline
Defining Business Analysis
Overview of the business analysis discipline
- Key roles and responsibilities
- Distinguishing between business analysis and other related disciplines
Introducing the business analysis framework
- The framework and the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®)
- Industry best practice from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)
Capturing Business Requirements through Elicitation
Gathering business needs at the organisational or department levels
- Performing needs analysis
- Choosing the best elicitation technique
- Soliciting enterprise-level contextual analysis using strategic, tactical and operational tools
Identifying the nine elicitation techniques
- Verifying the necessary steps to gather information
- Recording and confirming elicitation results
Conducting Enterprise Analysis
Analysing the business landscape
- Categorizing and prioritizing business needs and issues using affinity diagrams
- Assessing business capabilities and gaps
Detecting problems and finding opportunities
- Exposing root causes of problems
- Finding opportunities for growth
- Identifying elements of the initial solution scope
- Developing action-oriented business initiatives to address business needs and opportunities
Measuring the feasibility of options
- 2x2 analysis grid
- Prioritization matrices
- Anticipating project benefits and costs
Documenting critical project parameters
- Building SMART project objectives
- Specifying critical project elements and deliverables
Planning and Monitoring the Business Analysis Process
Planning for requirements analysis
- Documenting assumptions, ground rules and templates
- Producing a requirements development plan to guide and manage the process
- Building the communication plan
Performing stakeholder analysis
- Identifying key stakeholders
- Analysing the impact stakeholders have on a project
Developing a change management process
- Baselining your plan
- Following the defined change management process
- Managing the change control process
Managing and Communicating Requirements
Analysing requirements
- Verifying, prioritising and organising requirements
- Specifying the requirements document
- Identifying key relationships using traceability
Executing the communication plan
- Addressing common pitfalls typically encountered during requirements development
- Validating the requirements document with key stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder agreement and conflict
Assessing and Validating Solutions
Allocating requirements
- Optimising business value
- Evaluating dependencies between the individual requirements
Assessing organisational readiness
- Identifying organisational capability gaps
- Defining business and technical organisational impacts
Developing Business Analysis Competencies
- Going beyond the mechanics of analysis
- Applying the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency framework
Requirements
This course is intended for anyone interested in gaining a broad knowledge of the key tasks and techniques involved in business analysis or anyone who needs to effectively analyse business options and outcomes.
Open Training Courses require 5+ participants.
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Examples during the presentation was sufficient and knowledgeable, and easy to understand and visualize.
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easier to understand than i though it will be
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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.
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Focusing on applying the course on my real work.
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