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This boot camp-style course will help you to gain the foundational skills to perform the role of a business analyst (BA) in both waterfall and agile environments.

  • Course Start Date: 2024-04-01
  • Time: 11:30:00 - 19:30:00
  • Duration: 3 days 11:30 AM - 07:30 PM
  • Location: Virtual
  • Delivery Method(s): Virtual Instructor Led

Course Outline

Lessons

COURSE OVERVIEW

This boot camp-style course will help you to gain the foundational skills to perform the role of a business analyst (BA) in both waterfall and agile environments. You will learn how to plan business analysis activities; as well as the basics of eliciting, analyzing, modeling, and writing requirements. Learn how to verify and validate product requirements, gain approval, and manage the requirements through the life cycle of the project. Understand the BA role in the design, development, and testing phases of a project. Gain new perspectives through hands-on, interactive group activities led by subject matter experts. Enhance your experience through videos, discussions, and reflections. Get tools, templates, and samples to continue your learning and practice after class.

This course is aligned to the requirements management and business analysis principles outlined by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) and Project Management Institute (PMI)®.

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

PMI is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  • Role and importance of the BA
  • Vocabulary standards and business analysis practices through the use of the IIBA A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide)
  • Plan BA requirements activities
  • Elicit requirements from stakeholders, with an emphasis on interviews
  • Analyze stated requirements, with an overview of modeling techniques
  • Document requirements for different types of projects
  • Verify and validate requirements
  • Elements of requirements management and communication and the BA's role in them
  • Elements of solution verification and validation and possible BA roles
  • Enterprise analysis: choosing appropriate projects
  • Necessary competencies and best practices of BAs
  • Waterfall, incremental, and agile lifecycles and how they change BA practices

Hands-On Exercises

  • Identify Business Analysis Concepts and Activities in Your Organization
  • Review a Vision and Scope Document
  • Plan Requirements Activities for a Project
  • Conduct an Interview
  • Choose Elicitation Techniques
  • Analyze a Location Model
  • Analyze a Workflow Model
  • Analyze a Use Case Model
  • Analyze a CRUD Matrix
  • Identify Models that Answer Key Questions
  • Review a Requirements Document
  • Determine the Impact of a Proposed Change to a Requirements Set
  • Write a Test Case Using a Use Case
  • Walk Through the Steps of Enterprise Analysis for a Project
  • Develop a Personal Action Plan to Improve Your BA Skills or Environment

OUTLINE

Classroom Live Outline

1. Introduction to Business Analysis

  • What Is Business Analysis?
  • Role of the Business Analyst
  • Core BA Skills
  • BA Certifications

2. Project Definition and Planning

  • Pre-Project Activities

  • Vision and Scope Document
  • Stakeholders
  • Requirements
  • Business Analysis Plan

3. Requirements Elicitation

  • What Is Elicitation?
  • Elicitation Techniques
  • Selecting the Right Elicitation Technique

4. Requirements Analysis

  • What Is a Model?
  • Types of Models
  • Requirements Prioritization

5. Requirements Documentation and Management

  • Requirements and Design Documentation
  • Requirements Verification
  • Requirements Validation
  • Obtaining Approval of Requirements
  • Change Control
  • Reuse of Requirements
  • Requirements Communication

6. BA Involvement in Design and Development

  • Role of the BA in Design and Development
  • Requirements Implementation and Design Assessment

7. BA Involvement in Testing

  • Role of the BA in the Testing Phase
  • Test Plans
  • Test Cases
  • Acceptance Criteria in Agile
  • Solution Acceptance and Closeout

8. Recap and Self-Assessment

Hands-On Exercises

  1. Review the Vision and Scope Document
  2. Identify Stakeholders and Other Sources of Requirements
  3. Plan Business Analysis Activities
  4. Conduct an Interview
  5. Observe a Requirements Workshop
  6. Choose the Best Elicitation Technique
  7. Create a Swimlane Diagram
  8. Create a Use Case Diagram
  9. Analyze a Location Model
  10. Identify Missing Stakeholders Using an Organization Model
  11. Prioritize Requirements
  12. Critique Requirements
  13. Determine Impact of a Proposed Change
  14. Provide Input for Decision between Two Solutions
  15. Evaluate and Critique a Set of Test Cases
  • Systems, business, and requirements analysts
  • Developers
  • Software engineers
  • IT project managers
  • Project managers who supervise business analysts and are responsible for business analysis activities, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, program managers, testers, and QA specialists

This course qualifies you for the following PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs):

  • Technical Project Management = 21

Total = 21

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.

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Training Provider Rating

This vendor has an overall average rating of 4.38 out of 5 based on 431 reviews.

I would never take another course that starts at 11AM and goes to 9PM again. The way the course was laid out really took away from ... Read more
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I would never take another course that starts at 11AM and goes to 9PM again. The way the course was laid out really took away from the capturing of what was presented as it was 5-6 hours of watching a screen before getting to the actual labs. There has to be a better way to lay out this particular course. In my previous course, the lectures were broken up by labs which worked out fantastic and kept you engaged in the course. There were days when in order to actually complete the labs, would go over the 9PM day end time frame. Was able to get the primary labs done, but if you want to get all the content completed, you cannot complete it in the window of this course, you will need to come back on your own time.

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Wasn’t as advanced as I thought it would be. There was an issue when the day my course was the first time they used a new platfo ... Read more
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Wasn’t as advanced as I thought it would be. There was an issue when the day my course was the first time they used a new platform.. from adobe to something called zoom; I had to call support line cause it stated our instructor wasn’t present. Thankfully I called cause everyone online was in the adobe virtual classroom waiting for what looked like a teacher who didn’t show up for class (IT didn’t get anything resolved until 10mins after start time). I felt like he was really getting hung up on very basic knowledge for the first half of the course (talking about how to create tabs and drag formulas as an example). I completed files a few times before he was done explaining. There was a scheduled fire drill for them (roughly 30mins)that also cut into our time, which wasn’t deducted from the hour lunch break or the two, fifteen min breaks. I also really wish he touched base more on the automating workbook functions portion which we barely did. I'm happy there were/are those study guides (learning videos) and exams to take on my own time that I hope after I've had the class are still available for me to learn from.

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