Business Analysis Essentials

Objectives

Lesson objectives help you become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. In the Business Analysis Essentials training course, you will learn:

· The role and importance of the BA
· Vocabulary standards and business analysis practices through the use of the IIBA A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide)
· Plan BA requirements activities
· Elicit requirements from stakeholders, with an emphasis on interviews
· Analyze stated requirements, with an overview of modeling techniques
· Document requirements for different types of projects
· Verify and validate requirements
· Elements of requirements management and communication and the BA's role in them
· Elements of solution verification and validation and possible BA roles
· Enterprise analysis: choosing appropriate projects
· Necessary competencies and best practices of BAs
· Waterfall, incremental, and agile lifecycles and how they change BA practices
HANDS-ON EXERCISES
· Identify Business Analysis Concepts and Activities in Your Organization
· Review a Vision and Scope Document
· Plan Requirements Activities for a Project
· Conduct an Interview
· Choose Elicitation Techniques
· Analyze a Location Model
· Analyze a Workflow Model
· Analyze a Use Case Model
· Analyze a CRUD Matrix
· Identify Models that Answer Key Questions
· Review a Requirements Document
· Determine the Impact of a Proposed Change to a Requirements Set
· Write a Test Case Using a Use Case
· Walk Through the Steps of Enterprise Analysis for a Project
· Develop a Personal Action Plan to Improve Your BA Skills or Environment

Business Analysis Essentials
Course Outline