Course Overview
TOPBusiness Analysts provide an essential function by assessing and analyzing the business environment, defining the scope of business problems, capturing project requirements, designing high-value solution approaches, and ensuring that the defined scope meets the customer's needs, goals, objectives, and expectations. This practical workshop will provide participants with fundamental analysis tools and techniques, including methods to understand the business environment, define a problem using a systematic approach, and influence and inform project stakeholders at all levels. You will gain pragmatic solutions to sustain stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle, including questioning, listening, business need identification, problem solving, presentation, validation, and acceptance of the effective solution.
Scheduled Classes
TOPWhat You'll Learn
TOPIn this class you will learn how to:
- Identify the essential skills of a Business Analyst
- Analyze the business environment in which your project occurs
- Improve your requirements elicitation, development, and documentation
- Enhance business analysis techniques to reduce project cost
- Practice eliciting and validating information from project stakeholders
- Develop business model components such as a context diagram, activity diagram, and use case model
- Work as a team to analyze business artifacts and documents to discover the functional requirements needed
- Write user stories and acceptance criteria
- Produce well-written use case diagrams and narratives
- Generate a plan for bringing these methods back to your organization
Outline
TOPPrerequisites
TOPAnyone involved in business analysis would benefit from this business analyst training course.
Who Should Attend
TOPProfessionals who may benefit from this business analyst training course include:
- Business Analyst
- Business Systems Analyst
- Systems Analyst
- Project Manager or Team Leader
- Systems Architect or Designer
- IT Manager/Director
- Systems or Application Developer
- QA Professional
- Systems Tester
- Business customer, user, or partner
- Anyone wanting to enhance their business analysis skills