Principles of Business Analysis

Description:

Course overview

The Business Analyst serves as the liaison between the business community and the technical solution providers. Gain skills to fully communicate requirements to the technical team before solutions are designed and implemented. Develop leadership and facilitation skills needed to glean the right information to understand the business environment and the user needs. Create key deliverable documents that are actionable by the development team. Define the key changes needed for an organization to develop lean processes. Learn how to position an organization for success in outsourcing projects.

Prerequisites

• Project team experience is extremely desirable

Audience

This course is intended for business analysts and related professionals such as Project Managers, QA Managers, Project Customers, Technical Leads, Systems Engineers or anyone with a substantive role in the success of projects.

Benefits to you

• Gain exposure to essential business analysis concepts and techniques
• Learn terminology and role content consistent with the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
• Articulate and execute the job responsibilities of a Business Analyst
• Successfully perform the Business Analyst (BA) role on a small to medium size application development project

 

Course outline

Key Business Analysis Concepts

• Define the business analyst deliverables in the systems requirements life cycle and the key roles for the business analyst, project manager, and technical lead
• Define the Problem Domains for business analysis
• Use verification and validation process models for requirements flow down

Key Requirements Issues

• Describe Requirements types
• Identify the attributes of a good requirement
• Discuss notation schemes like entity relationships, IDEF1X and UML

Key Problem Solving Concepts

• Identify key phases of problem solving
• Define scope of work with context diagrams
• Explain how to use cases to determine system boundaries

Documenting Requirements Part 1

• Use a requirements management plan for planning the work
• Describe key parts of the business requirements document and determine which supplementary documents are required to describe additional requirements
• Use a variety of requirements documentation tools and techniques

Documenting Requirements Part 2

• Explain the purpose of the context design diagram for project scope planning and trade-off analysis
• Discover key techniques for describing high-level requirements and architecture
• Explain requirements feasibility and reliability and alternative study of requirements

Documenting Requirements Part 3

• Define key elicitation techniques
• Discuss visual models that are used to verify requirements
• Create data models to communicate with the development team

Managing Requirements

• Define test objectives in terms of coverage and risk and implement risk mitigation activities in the system requirements test plan approach
• Create requirements traceability and establish requirements configuration control
• Discuss techniques for product validation and prepare for user acceptance testing

Superior Business Analysis Challenges

• Define project leadership characteristics and identify how to deliver value to users and stakeholders
• Communicate requirements to distance development teams and manage successful outsourcing engagements
• Promote agile approaches for faster delivery of customer value