Business Analysis Introduction: Defining Successful Projects

Description

Overview:

This training course delivers an end-to-end business analysis process, incorporating industry best practices from IIBA?, BCS, and Project Management. You will improve your analytical competencies and learn to apply a core business analysis framework ? from initiation, through requirements gathering and stakeholder management, to making a business case, delivering a solution, and validating outcomes.

Prerequisite(s):

None

Audience:

Outline:

Lesson 1: Defining Business Analysis

• Overview of the business analysis discipline
• Introducing the business analysis process

Lesson 2: Performing Strategic Analysis

• Introducing strategy analysis
• Internal analysis
• External analysis

Lesson 3: Analyzing and Managing Your Stakeholders

• Identifying your stakeholders
• Analyzing your stakeholders
• Managing your stakeholders

Lesson 4: Defining the Solution

• Exploring business and technical options
• Developing criteria and solutions

Lesson 5: Making the Business Case

• The structure of the business case
• Analyzing costs and benefits

Lesson 6: The Requirements Engineering Framework

• Defining requirements
• Planning the requirements communication process
• Developing the requirements document

Lesson 7: Establishing the Requirements

• The elicitation process
• Eliciting the requirements

Lesson 8: Analyzing the Requirements

• Organizing and prioritizing requirements
• Employing modeling techniques

Lesson 9: Writing the Requirements Documentation

• Creating formal requirements documentation
• Creating agile requirements documentation
• Validating the requirements
• Managing the written requirements
• Presenting the Business Solution