Business Analysis Essentials

Category	ID	Duration	Level	Price
Business Analysis	12960	3 Day(s)	Foundation	$2,495.00

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Course Overview

Learn how to fill the role of the business analyst.

This course will help you to gain the foundational skills to perform the role of a business analyst (BA) in both waterfall and agile environments. You will learn how to plan business analysis activities; as well as the basics of eliciting, analyzing, modeling, and writing requirements. Learn how to verify and validate product requirements, gain approval, and manage the requirements through the life cycle of the project. Understand the BA role in the design, development, and testing phases of a project. Gain new perspectives through hands-on, interactive group activities led by subject matter experts. Enhance your experience through videos, discussions, and reflections. Get tools, templates, and samples to continue your learning and practice after class.

This course is aligned to the requirements management and business analysis principles outlined by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) and Project Management Institute (PMI)®.

Course 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

Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA™)

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Requirements Development, Documentation and Management

CBAP-Certification Prep Boot Camp

Business Analysis for the IT Professional Training

Business Analysis in Agile Projects Training

Business Analyst Boot Camp

Business Process Analysis Training

CBAP-Certification Prep Boot Camp

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