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Schedule
There are no open enrollment classes currently scheduled.
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Goals
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The job of the Business Analyst, at its core, is to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. This "umbrella" seminar addresses a broad range of critical business analysis techniques. It also delivers specific skills you need to develop system specifications that will impel quality business system results.
BABoK (TM) Compliance - This seminar thoroughly covers the Enterprise Analysis knowledge area.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Integrate business requirements management practices into your system development and project management life cycles
- Create a strategy map
- Use the strategy map and process management tools to identify potential project opportunities
- Evaluate alternatives using enterprise architecture frameworks
- Conduct feasibility studies
- Document high level business requirements based on enterprise analysis
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Audience
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This course is designed for Business Analysis Managers, Business or Technical Analysts, Operations Managers, Project Managers, Requirements Engineers, IT or Development Managers, and Systems Analysts or Managers. |
Duration
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2 days |
Prerequisites
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None |
Contents
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Requirements Overview
- Importance of Requirements
- Why are Requirements Missed?
- Requirements Development
- Requirements and Life Cycles
- Business Analysis Knowledge Areas
- Effective Requirements
Business Analysis Planning
- Business Analysis Planning Activities
- Stakeholder Identification
- Onion Diagram
- "Donut" Identification Technique
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Strategies for Influence and Impact
- Responsibility Matrix
- Life Cycle RACI
- Define Business Analysis Activities
- Steps to Create BA Task Plan
- Review project Statement of Work
- Create a Work Breakdown Structure
- Business Analysis Task Plan
Defining Business Need
- When do you get involved?
- Enterprise Analysis Is...
- Importance of Enterprise Analysis
- Exploring the business need
- Strategic plan contributions
- Strategy Map
- Balanced Scorecard
- Identifying Business Opportunities
- Environmental Analysis
- Business Rules
- Process Analysis
- Process Blueprint
- System Map
- Process Map Example
- Data Analysis Tools
Assess Capability Gaps
- Enterprise Architecture
- People, Process and Tools
- POLDAT Domains of Change
- Zachman Framework
- Business analyst role - EA inputs
- Assessing the capability gap
- Identify business opportunities
- Evaluating the alternatives
- Feasibility study steps
- Conduct current state assessment
- Identify potential solutions
- Determine feasibility of options
- Document the feasibility study
- Business solutions
- Analysis of alternatives
- Implementation strategy
- Identify risks
- The Business Case
- Visioning document
- Preparing the Business Case
Requirements Management
- Requirements management plan
- Prioritizing requirements
- MoSCoW
- Time-Boxing or Budgeting
- Voting
- Managing requirements change
- Keys to effectively managing scope
- Managing BA performance
- Components of a requirements package
BA Role and Competencies
- Business Analyst contributions
- Organizational politics
- Action item template
- Group decision-making
- Keys to Success
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Format
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Lecture and group exercises |
