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IT EXPERT SYSTEM, INC
IT Training, Staffing and IT Services Provider
Schaumburg | Des Plaines | Naperville IL, USA
Empower Clients Through IT
Time: 24 hours
Prerequisite:
Prior Project Management Education or Experience is prefered.
Course overview:
This course is structured around a series of activities in which you gain practical modeling experience. In the context of a real-world case study, you apply best practices in business requirement gathering, documention and stakeholder management to help you fulfill your crucial role as a business analyst.
Course Content
Introduction to business analysis
• The rationale for business analysis
• The development of business analysis
• The scope of business analysis
• The responsibilities of a business analyst
Competencies of the business analyst
• The Business Analysis Maturity Model
• The competencies of a business analyst
Business strategy analysis
• The strategic context
• Strategic analysis techniques
• SWOT analysis
• Implementing strategy
The Business Analysis Process Model
• The lifecycle for business analysis
• Creative problem-solving approach
• Stages of the process model
• Deliverables and techniques for each stage
Investigation techniques
• Interviewing and workshops
• Observation approaches
• Scenarios and prototyping
• Quantitative investigation techniques
• Documenting the business situation
Stakeholder analysis and management
• Categorising stakeholders
• Analysing stakeholders
• Stakeholder management
Modelling the business system
• Soft systems methodology
• Documenting business situations
• Business perspectives
• Business activity models
• Business events and business rules
• Performance measures
• Gap analysis
Modelling business processes
• Organisational view of processes
• Value chain and value propositions
• Business process modelling techniques
• Improving business processes
Gathering the requirements
• Requirements engineering framework
• Actors in requirements engineering
• Requirements elicitation
• Requirements analysis
• Requirements validation
Documenting and managing requirements
• The requirements document
• The requirements catalogue
• Types of requirement
• Managing requirements
Modelling requirements
• Modelling functionality
• Modelling data
Delivering the requirements
• Delivering the solution
• Delivery lifecycles – waterfall, V model, incremental, iterative
Making a business and financial case
• The business case in the project lifecycle
• Identifying options
• Assessing feasibility
• Structure of a business case
• Investment appraisal techniques
• Realising the benefits
Implementing business change
• The change management process
• The emotional impact of change
Who should go for this course?
Anyone who needs a practical foundation in business techniques as well as business analysts who need to gather requirements and create comprehensive models.
Special notes:
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Additional HBR - case studies:
Business Analyst
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