Business Analysis Introduction: Defining Successful Projects
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This training course delivers an end-to-end business analysis process, incorporating industry best practices from IIBA®, BCS, and Project Management. You will improve your analytical competencies and learn to apply a core business analysis framework — from initiation, through requirements gathering and stakeholder management, to making a business case, delivering a solution, and validating outcomes.
You Will Learn How To
- Perform external and internal analysis to understand the pressures on the business and root cause of a problem
- Write clear requirements for formal and Agile projects
- Create UML models and diagrams to analyze requirements
- Perform strategy analysis to understand your organization's business landscape
- Develop user stories and use cases
Course Outline
- Defining Business Analysis
Overview of the business analysis discipline
- What is business analysis?
- The scope of the business analyst’s work
- Responsibilities of the business analyst
Introducing the business analysis process
- From strategy analysis to requirements engineering
- Best practices used throughout the business analysis process
- Performing Strategic Analysis
Introducing strategy analysis
- Identifying strategic context
- Performing root cause analysis
Internal analysis
- Responding to business challenges through internal analysis
- Identifying your key stakeholders
- Clarifying the organizational mission using MOST
External analysis
- Optimizing organizational flexibility using external analysis
- Investigating competitive pressures using Porter’s Five Forces
- Analyzing the business landscape using PESTLE
- Analyzing and Managing Your Stakeholders
Identifying your stakeholders
- The stakeholder wheel and identification matrix
- Creating stakeholder personas
Analyzing your stakeholders
- Examining stakeholder impact for your project
- Evaluating stakeholder attitude towards your project
- Placing your stakeholder in the organizational hierarchy using STOP
- Developing action-oriented business initiatives to address business needs and opportunities
Managing your stakeholders
- Interacting with your stakeholders
- Creating a stakeholder communication plan
- Assessing your stakeholders
- Defining the Solution
Exploring business and technical options
- Forming scope from business goals and objectives
- Writing the business requirements
Developing criteria and solutions
- Making use of affinity diagrams to elicit high-level criteria
- Comparing evaluation techniques
- Making the Business Case
The structure of the business case
- Creating a pyramid of information
- Using customer-focused persuasion
Analyzing costs and benefits
- Categories of costs and benefits
- Identifying tangible and intangible costs and benefits
- Investment appraisal using a cash flow forecast
- Evaluating risk and impact
- The Requirements Engineering Framework
Defining requirements
- The cost of poor requirements
- Distinguishing between functional and non-functional requirements
- Key sources of requirements
Planning the requirements communication process
- Addressing common pitfalls typically encountered during requirements development
- Actors in the requirements engineering process
- Dealing with tacit and explicit knowledge
Developing the requirements document
- Building the requirements list
- Applying requirements filters
- Developing well-formed requirements
- Establishing the Requirements
The elicitation process
- Elicitation tools and techniques
- Guidelines and checklists
Eliciting the requirements
- Conducting effective interviews and workshops
- Deploying observation techniques
- Getting user feedback by using prototypes
- Analyzing the situation using visualization techniques
- Spotting non-functional requirements using quantitative analysis
- Analyzing the Requirements
Organizing and prioritizing requirements
- Arranging requirements by focus
- Gap analysis techniques
Employing modeling techniques
- Modeling the business context
- Shaping the business processes
- Inspecting the requirements
- Writing the Requirements Documentation
Creating formal requirements documentation
- Structuring a standard functional requirement
- Structuring a standard non-functional requirement
Creating agile requirements documentation
- Developing and splitting user stories
- Crafting, and elaborating on, use cases
Validating the requirements
- Stakeholders and their areas of concern
- Types of validation
Managing the written requirements
- Dealing with changing requirements
- Sources of requirements change
- Components of requirements management
- Presenting the Business Solution
- Delivering the requirements
- Transferring the business solution
- Supporting developmental activities
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$2745
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$2415
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Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
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