Target Audience
This course is designed for:
- Aspiring Business Analysts: Individuals looking to start a career in business analysis and seeking an understanding of the fundamentals.
- New Project Team Members: Team members new to projects who will benefit from understanding the business analysis process and how to contribute effectively.
- Professionals Transitioning Roles: Individuals moving into business analysis or project management roles from other areas within an organization.
- Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs: Who wish to apply business analysis techniques to improve their business processes and requirements management.
Pricing
$595 per participant
This introductory course offers exceptional value by providing foundational knowledge essential for anyone looking to enter the field of business analysis. The pricing reflects the course's aim to be accessible to a wide audience, including individuals and organizations looking to build or expand their business analysis capabilities. The investment in this course will equip participants with the fundamental skills and understanding needed to contribute to business analysis activities effectively, making it an excellent starting point for aspiring professionals in the field.
Duration
16 hours (divided into 8 modules, 2 hours each, spread over 4 weeks)
Delivery Format: Participants can opt for either Face to Face or Online Interactive Workshops
Learning Outcome
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the Role of a Business Analyst: Grasp the core responsibilities, value, and impact of a business analyst within an organization.
- Learn Basic Business Analysis Techniques: Get introduced to fundamental techniques for eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating requirements.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Understand how to identify and work effectively with stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure project alignment.
- Introduction to Requirements Management: Learn the basics of managing project and product requirements throughout the lifecycle.
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving: Develop foundational skills in critical thinking and problem-solving to address business challenges.
- Communication Skills: Gain insights into effective communication strategies to facilitate clear and productive interactions with stakeholders.
Course Modules
The course will be run as 8 modules, comprising of:
- Definition and scope of business analysis
- Role and responsibilities of a business analyst
- Overview of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK)
- Understanding business needs
- Defining solutions
- Stakeholder analysis
- Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM)
- Planning business analysis approach
- Stakeholder engagement strategies
- Governance and information management
- Tools and techniques for planning and monitoring
- Elicitation techniques (interviews, workshops, surveys, observation)
- Documenting and confirming elicitation results
- Collaboration and communication with stakeholders
- Traceability and monitoring of requirements
- Prioritizing, assessing, and approving requirements
- Managing changes to requirements
- Defining business need and solution scope
- Analyzing current state and future state
- Assessing risks and defining change strategy
- Specifying and modeling requirements
- Verifying and validating requirements
- Defining design options and recommending solutions
- Assessing solution performance
- Analyzing performance measures
- Recommending actions to increase solution value
Module 1: Introduction to Business Analysis
Module 2: Business Analysis Key Concepts
Module 3: Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
Module 4: Elicitation and Collaboration
Module 5: Requirements Life Cycle Management
Module 6: Strategy Analysis
Module 7: Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
Module 8: Solution Evaluation
Course Features
- Interactive Workshops: Hands-on sessions where participants apply concepts through practical exercises.
- Real-World Case Studies: Analysis of real business scenarios to understand the application of business analysis principles.
- Expert Instructors: Experienced business analysts and industry professionals as course facilitators.
- Course Materials: Comprehensive course materials, including slides, templates, and reading resources.