Business Analysis for the IT Professional

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: • Describe the relation between projects and processes • Describe three major project development methodologies • Discuss the basics of enterprise analysis and its impact on project selection • Learn the communications processes and how they can impact project requirements • Determine each participant’s communications style (BEST profile) and how that understanding can help in eliciting requirements • Gather and document user requirements using the following techniques o Interviews o Collaborative sessions o Prototyping o Using the Work Breakdown Structure o Use case basics o Business process analysis • Modeling the business • Fundamentals of Process Modeling • Requirements validation through Data Modeling • Testing fundamentals and quality assurance