Business Analysis Essentials (BA10)

In this introductory course, you'll delve into the role & responsibilities of the business analyst--the communication link between all business areas & a critical player in project success.

Course Outline

In this introductory course, you'll delve into the role and responsibilities of the business analyst-the communication link between all business areas and a critical player in project success. Learn techniques for ensuring project success every step of the way-from identifying and analyzing potential projects to
making sure that the final project product meets the requirements you identified. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn to define the scope of work and master requirements-gathering techniques that will work for a variety of projects and audiences. You'll consider the unique needs of customers, stakeholders, and the IT department as you work toward building, documenting, communicating, and managing requirements.

Students pursuing a university-recognized and/or accredited certificate in Canada or continuing education units in the US must attend at least 90% of class time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at least 70% on an end-of-class, multiple-choice assessment.

What You'll Learn

• Role of the business analyst
• Build and evaluate a business case
• Plan, manage, analyze, document, and communicate requirements
• Conduct effective interviews, group workshops, and questionnaires
• Data mining
• Effectively capture and document business rules
• Get agreement
• Ensure requirements are met

Who Needs to Attend

• Systems Analysts
• Business Analysts
• Requirements Analysts
• Developers
• Software Engineers
• IT Project Managers
• Project Managers
• Project Analysts
• Project Leaders
• Senior Project Managers
• Team Leaders
• Program Managers
• Testers
• QA Specialists

Hands-On Exercises

• Identify Business Analysis (BA) Concepts and Activities in Your Organization
• Propose Project Scope Based on Your Analysis of a Business Architecture, Feasibility Study, and Risk Assessment
• Define Team Roles and Work Division Strategy
• Plan Requirements Activities for a Project
• Plan Scope and Requirements Change Management
• Choose Elicitation Techniques
• Choose Techniques to Structure, Model, and Analyze Requirements
• Identify Project Assumptions and Constraints
• Determine Requirements Verification and Validation Activities
• Draft a Requirements Communication Plan
• Prepare for Requirements Presentation and Sign-off
• Determine Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
• Compile an Individual Professional Skills Inventory
• Produce an Individual Professional Growth Plan

Course Outline

1. Overview of Business Analysis

• The solutions lifecycle
• What is business analysis?
• Business analysis terminology
• International Institute of Business Analysis
• CBAP certification

2. Enterprise Analysis

• Introduction
• Definitions
• The business architecture
• Feasibility studies
• Project scope
• Business case
• Risk assessment
• Decision package
• Selecting and prioritizing projects

3. Requirements Planning and Management

• Introduction
• Definitions
• Team roles for the project
• Work division strategy
• Requirements risk approach
• Planning considerations
• Requirements activities

• Selection
• Estimation

• Requirements scope
• Requirements activity

• Measurement
• Reporting

• Requirements change management

4. Requirements Elicitation

• Introduction
• Definitions
• Elicit requirements
• Techniques

• Brainstorming
• Document analysis
• Focus groups
• Interface analysis
• Interviews
• Observation
• Prototyping
• Workshop
• Reverse engineering
• Survey/questionnaire

5. Requirements Analysis and Documentation

• Introduction
• Definitions
• Requirements package
• Business domain model
• Analyze user requirements
• Analyze functional requirements
• Analyze quality of service requirements
• Assumptions and constraints
• Requirements

• Attributes
• Document
• Validate
• Verify

• Modeling techniques

• Data and behavior models
• Process/flow models
• Usage models

6. Requirements Communication

• Introduction
• Definitions
• Communication plan
• Manage conflicts
• Determine format
• Requirements package
• Requirements presentation
• Requirements review
• Requirements sign-off

7. Solution Assessment and Validation

• Introduction
• Definitions
• Solution alternatives
• Technology options
• Solution selection
• Solution usability
• Quality assurance
• Solution implementation
• Solution impacts
• Post implementation review

8. BA Fundamentals

• Communication skills
• Leadership skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Business knowledge
• IT knowledge

9. Case studies

10. Exercises

* This course was previously titled Introduction to Business Analysis.

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Certificates offered

- 21 PMI PDUs - 2.1 CEUs - 21 IIBA CDUs

Cancellation Policy

We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted.

Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.

Map & Reviews

Global Knowledge
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Global Knowledge Toronto Bloor St
2 Bloor Street West
Suite 1200
Toronto, Ontario
Canada   M4W 3E2

Reviews

 

We have not received any reviews specific to this course as yet, however here are some reviews of the training vendor.

   

- do we get a certifiacate for completing the courseÉ - although the instructor did give us excercises to do I would have liked a few more - almost like a test, so that I made sure I retained and understood what was taught. I`m a learn to do by doing person and like the instrutor lead courses so I can have someone there to explain in my terms how things work. I`ll have to really use the online excercises to make sure Ì am confident when I need to do something in Excel.

Reviewed by Delores P. 2012

   

Should be time allocated for questions and answer

Reviewed by Vinod P. 2012

   

The instructor was excellent as was the hands-on learning approach. The only thing I took issue with was the fact that there were a lot of bilingual persons taking the course and they tended to ask questions in French, during this English class. The instructor was trying very hard to explain everything in both languages, but I felt that these students should have requested a French-speaking classroom setting if they wanted to speak French.

Reviewed by Sheila D. 2012

   

Very professional. Facility clean and comfortable.

Reviewed by Christine P. 2012

   

For the cost of this course, a hard copy of the course handout should be provided as the classes follows the handout word for word.

Reviewed by Caroline P. 2012

   

The facilities at Global Knowledge were great. The Instructor was very knowlegable and made it easy to learn the material. It was a very good experience:)

Reviewed by Tonia L. 2012

   

Note: We had 2 different trainers during this 3 day course. Course: Terminology should reflect North America and be consistent with our business lingo.

Reviewed by Harman M. 2012

   

Found the course very informative. I had little exposure to Sharepoint and learned a number of things I didn't know. Plan to take the next level of training

Reviewed by Michael R. 2011

   

A charged mannul would be provided for students to make notes whereever they think instructions are important as reminders

Reviewed by jinxiu z. 2011

   

The course is so expensive to be payed by oneself. In almost all the others participants their companies pay the fee.

Reviewed by Ricardo T. 2011

   

No course books were provided for us to take.

Reviewed by Hala M. 2011

   

Course was very detailed but more time would be helpful during workshops. An additional day would help lessen the course load.

Reviewed by Roydon F. 2011

   

should have discuss some case studies,,overall A+

Reviewed by Syed A. 2011

   

Our instructor was very knowlegable and he provided excellent real life stories.

Reviewed by Stephen W. 2011

   

The course was very relevant. I was able to apply the knowledge I aquired in the course to my job on the very next day. The only complaint I have is with the temperature of the room. It was freezing! Students has to wear a jacket or sweater. We were told the temp gage was shared with another classroom that was quite warm so they had turned the temp very low causing our room to be very uncomfortable.

Reviewed by Yasmine I. 2011

   

Given the cost of the course, the hardcopy of the manual should have been provided. It would have been useful to make notes alongside the material as we went along.

Reviewed by Jeff P. 2011

   

I am very disappointed with the handouts. I was told I could go online and download a copy of the manual, the problem is that I would like the printed copy of the manual. I chatted online with one of your technitian who was unable to help me. Then I was told someone would contact me by phone to help me. That never happened. When taking a training course, a person EXPECTS to leave the course with ALL the material.

Reviewed by Betty M. 2011

   

Great course provider, keep it on your roaster

Reviewed by Catherine G. 2011

   

Course content and labs were very good, everything worked as expected.

Reviewed by Francisco C. 2011

   

I really enjoyed this course and was surpised how ell everything was run...enjoyed the instructer very much (Par) and would like to take an other course with him. I wish we could have taken the work book home with us though!!!

Reviewed by gail h. 2010