Essentials of Business Analysis

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Goals

How important are effective business requirements? Studies have shown that at least half of product defects originate in the requirements. As much as 80 percent of rework on a development project can be traced back to requirement defects.

In today's environment, where every system dollar is scrutinized and squeezed, one of the greatest improvement opportunities for an IT organization is in defining the requirements correctly.

Regardless of the development methodology, business requirements must clearly define what the system is supposed to do. This seminar addresses a broad range of business analysis skills that will help you extract the right information from the business users and create requirements to support the design, development, testing, and deployment of successful system solutions.

The following will be covered in this class:

• The business analysts' role in requirements gathering
• Analyze business processes to determine business requirements
• Harvest business need information from the user community effectively
• Create thorough and useful business requirements
• Use case and modeling techniques that can help hone requirements
• Integrate business requirements into a variety of system development methodologies
• Establish a traceability protocol to link business requirements to design, development, testing, and deployment activities
• Link requirements to business needs

IIBA (TM) has certified this seminar is in compliance with the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABoK) areas.

Audience

• Business Analyst and/or Manager
• System Analyst and/or Manager
• Technical and QA Analyst
• Operations Manager
• IT Manager
• Project and Development Manager
• Requirements and Design Engineer

Duration

Prerequisites

Contents

• Importance of Requirements
  • Why Requirements Are Missed
  • The Costs of Missed Requirements
  • IIBA Knowledge Area
  • The Role of the Business Analyst
  • Project Management
  • SDLC/Methodologies
• Requirements Development
  • Process Flow
  • Types of Requirements
  • Selecting the "Right" Requirement Level
  • The Requirements Process
• Requirements Elicitation
  • Characteristics of good information
  • Where is the information
  • Who are the "Elicitees"
  • Stakeholder Identification
  • Tools and Techniques
• Process documentation and analysis
• Requirements Documentation
  • Document Sources
  • Document Contributions
  • Use Cases
  • Requirements Styles and Situations
• Requirements Validation
  • Criteria
  • Contents Check
  • Validation Checks
• CRUD(O)
• Finalizing Requirements
  • Characteristics of Effective Requirements
  • Requirements Traceability
• Traceability Matrix
  • Verification
  • Keys to Success

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