Business Analysis for the IT (Any) Professional

The business analyst role has evolved from that of a business procedures analyst to that of a business liaison between the non-technical user community and the technical solution providers. This course provides proactive, introductory coverage of the knowledge and skills essential to business analysts today and the foreseeable future. 

Duration: 4 days 

PMI PDU credits: 28 IIBA CDU credits: 28 Prerequisites: None 

Who should attend: 

 New business analysts 

 Experienced business analysts looking to update their skills and understanding of their role 

 Project managers who incorporate business analysis roles in their projects 

 Managers that have business analysts on their staff 

What you will accomplish: 

 Describe the relation between projects and processes 

 Best practices described in the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK^®) and other industry leaders 

 Describe three major project development methodologies 

 Discuss the basics of enterprise analysis and its impact on project selection 

 Learn the communications processes and how they can impact project requirements 

 Determine each participant’s communications style (BEST profile) and how that understanding can help in eliciting requirements 

 Gather and document user requirements using the following techniques 

• Interviews 
• Collaborative sessions 
• Prototyping 
• Using the Work Breakdown Structure 
• Use case basics 
• Business process analysis 

 Modeling the business 

 Fundamentals of Process Modeling 

 Requirements validation through Data Modeling 

 Testing fundamentals and quality assurance