Course Outline
Defining Business Analysis
Overview of the business analysis discipline
- Key roles and responsibilities
- Differentiating business analysis from other related disciplines
Introduction to the business analysis framework
- The framework and the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®)
- Industry best practices from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)
Capturing Business Requirements through Elicitation
Gathering business needs at the organizational or departmental levels
- Conducting needs analysis
- Selecting the most appropriate elicitation technique
- Requesting enterprise-level contextual analysis using strategic, tactical, and operational tools
Identifying the nine elicitation techniques
- Confirming the necessary steps for information gathering
- Documenting and verifying elicitation results
Conducting Enterprise Analysis
Analyzing the business landscape
- Categorizing and prioritizing business needs and issues using affinity diagrams
- Evaluating business capabilities and gaps
Detecting problems and identifying opportunities
- Uncovering the root causes of problems
- Discovering opportunities for growth
- Determining elements of the initial solution scope
- Formulating action-oriented business initiatives to address needs and opportunities
Measuring the feasibility of options
- 2x2 analysis grid
- Prioritization matrices
- Forecasting project benefits and costs
Documenting critical project parameters
- Establishing SMART project objectives
- Specifying critical project elements and deliverables
Planning and Monitoring the Business Analysis Process
Planning for requirements analysis
- Documenting assumptions, ground rules, and templates
- Creating a requirements development plan to guide and manage the process
- Developing the communication plan
Performing stakeholder analysis
- Identifying key stakeholders
- Analyzing the impact stakeholders have on a project
Developing a change management process
- Baselining your plan
- Adhering to the defined change management process
- Managing the change control process
Managing and Communicating Requirements
Analyzing requirements
- Verifying, prioritizing, and organizing requirements
- Specifying the requirements document
- Identifying key relationships using traceability
Executing the communication plan
- Addressing common pitfalls encountered during requirements development
- Validating the requirements document with key stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder agreement and conflict
Assessing and Validating Solutions
Allocating requirements
- Optimizing business value
- Evaluating dependencies between individual requirements
Assessing organizational readiness
- Identifying organizational capability gaps
- Defining business and technical organizational impacts
Developing Business Analysis Competencies
- Moving beyond the mechanics of analysis
- Applying the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency framework
Requirements
This course is designed for individuals seeking a broad understanding of the core tasks and techniques in business analysis, as well as for those who need to effectively evaluate business options and outcomes.
Testimonials (7)
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Angela - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
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Yogi Apryanto - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
Examples during the presentation was sufficient and knowledgeable, and easy to understand and visualize.
Irvine - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
easier to understand than i though it will be
fadzlyzainalfadilla - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
A lot of new isight
Anggi Anggara - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
How the lecturer explain thing is very clear and not clutered, have many general and specific knowledge about BA's things, learn a lot thing with him.
Kenny - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
Focusing on applying the course on my real work.
