Course Description
One of the main reasons given for unsuccessful project results is the lack of clear understanding of stakeholder requirements. Business analysis helps to prevent project failure by identifying and validating those requirements early on. Of course, business analysis doesn’t stop with requirements; business analysts also recommend solutions and facilitate their execution. This course provides an introduction to the foundations of business analysis. It helps demystify the role of the business analyst (BA), and outlines the knowledge and skills required to build a successful BA career.
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The course contents are based on
1 – Business Analysis for practitioners – A Practice Guide – By PMI (Project Management Institute)
2 – BABOK – A guide to the business analysis Body of knowledge – By IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis)
Learning Objectives:
- What is business analysis?
- Role of the business analyst
- Needs assessment basics
- Identifying stakeholders
- Creating a business case
- Planning the project
- Determining requirements
- Traceability and monitoring
- Testing and validation
- Release planning
- Transition planning
What You Get in Class
- Project Victor’s Designed Course Material
- Project Victor Course Completion Certificate
- PMI Contact Hours: each contact hour is 1 PDU (Total of 14 Contact Hours/PDUs for the complete course).
- Project Victor Business Analysis Training
Delivery Method
Instructor led, group-paced, online-delivery leaning model with practical discussion of case studies.
Course Duration
2-days (equivalent to 14 Contact Hours or Professional Development Units – PDUs).
Course Objectives
- Articulate the key activities and artifacts of a business analyst.
- Increase project success by better defining the business need.
- Plan the requirements effort to ensure optimal productivity.
- Identify and analyze stakeholders and learn to optimize stakeholder communication.
- Reduce rework by eliciting and discovering requirements correctly the first time.
- Document “good” requirements by writing them clearly, concisely, and completely using simple templates.
- Learn how to trace and prioritize requirements to ensure they link to business value.
- Manage the requirements throughout the project.
Course Content
Introduction to Business Analysis, SDLC and business analysis, Business analyst Role and responsibilities, Definition and types of requirements
Problem or opportunity identification, Goals and objectives, As-Is and To-Be analysis, Gap analysis and solution recommendation, Business case
Prepare and conduct elicitation, requirement analysis, model and refine requirements, documenting solution requirements, requirement verification and validation
Requirements models – Scope models (Goal and objective model, ecosystem, context diagram, feature model, use case diagram) Process models (process flow, use case, user story), Rule models (business rules catalogue, decision table and decision tree) Data models (ER diagrams, data flow diagrams, data dictionary, state table and state diagram) Interface models (report table, system interface table, UI flow, wireframes), peer review, inspection, Delphi, multi-voting
Traceability matrix, requirement relationships and dependencies, requirement approval , requirement change management, configuration management
Validating solution and addressing defects, acceptance criteria evaluation, go/no-go decision, long term performance evaluation of solution.
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