Business Analysis Foundations

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Course Overview

Business Analysis Course

This course provides you with the foundational business analysis skills you need to elevate your value proposition to your stakeholders and organization. You will learn how to help your business clients articulate their business problem or opportunity, plan business analysis activities, as well as learn the basics of eliciting, analyzing, documenting, managing, and communicating requirements throughout the life cycle of an initiative. These foundational skills will enable you to contribute significantly to the success of your organization’s projects.

This course will earn you 14 PDUs | 14 CDUs

Business Analysis Foundations Course Overview

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the 5 different types of requirements
  • Increase project success by better defining the business need
  • Ensure optimal productivity by learning how to plan requirement efforts
  • Identify and analyze stakeholders
  • Document “good” requirements by writing them clearly and completely using simple templates
  • Learn how to trace and prioritize requirements to ensure they link to business value

COURSE AGENDA

Business Analysis Curriculum

New business analysts, project professionals with experience but no formal BA training, as well as experienced BAs and project managers who want to solidify their understanding will all benefit from the industry-standard business analysis skills and techniques explored in this course.

Process Leadership

Business Analysis

  • Business analysis defined
  • Business analyst role
  • Business analysis framework
  • Business analysis competencies

  • Requirements defined
  • 5 types of requirements
  • Requirements alignment
  • Requirements or design

  • Business rules defined
  • Business rules examples
  • Requirements vs. business rules

  • Identify and document the business need
  • Business need questions
  • Determine the business requirements

  • Business goals vs objectives
  • Documenting business goals and objectives
  • Business requirements questions

  • Business analysis planning considerations
  • Plan BA approach
  • Identify stakeholders
  • Plan stakeholder communication
  • Plan BA activities and techniques

  • Elicitation framework
  • Common elicitation techniques
  • Types of questions to ask
  • Document and confirm results

  • Characteristics of a good requirement
  • Documenting requirements
  • Packaged software considerations
  • Validation and verification checklists
  • Requirements modeling overview

  • Requirements management activities
  • Trace & prioritize requirements
  • Review & approve requirements
  • Assess requirement changes
  • Maintain req. documentation

  • Evaluate solution overview

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Self-Paced On-Demand

Pre-recorded training taught by an expert.

This on-demand course includes:

  • 6-Month Access to Online Training Portal
  • BA Foundations Student Manual
  • Additional Training Aids

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