Course Outline
Defining Business Analysis
Understanding the business analysis discipline
- Key roles and responsibilities
- Differentiating business analysis from other related fields
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
Collecting business needs at the organizational or departmental level
- Conducting needs analysis
- Selecting the most appropriate elicitation methods
- Gathering enterprise-level context using strategic, tactical, and operational tools
Identifying the nine core elicitation techniques
- Validating the necessary steps for information gathering
- Documenting and confirming elicitation outcomes
Conducting Enterprise Analysis
Examining the business landscape
- Classifying and prioritizing business needs and issues using affinity diagrams
- Evaluating business capabilities and identifying gaps
Uncovering problems and discovering opportunities
- Revealing root causes of issues
- Identifying avenues for growth
- Defining elements of the initial solution scope
- Creating action-oriented business initiatives to address needs and opportunities
Evaluating the feasibility of options
- 2x2 analysis grid
- Prioritization matrices
- Forecasting project benefits and costs
Documenting essential project parameters
- Formulating SMART project objectives
- Defining critical project elements and deliverables
Planning and Monitoring the Business Analysis Process
Planning for requirements analysis
- Recording assumptions, ground rules, and templates
- Creating a requirements development plan to guide and manage the process
- Developing the communication plan
Conducting stakeholder analysis
- Identifying key stakeholders
- Evaluating the impact stakeholders have on projects
Establishing a change management process
- Establishing a baseline for your plan
- Adhering to the defined change management process
- Overseeing the change control process
Managing and Communicating Requirements
Analyzing requirements
- Verifying, prioritizing, and organizing requirements
- Defining the requirements document
- Identifying key relationships using traceability
Implementing the communication plan
- Addressing common pitfalls often encountered during requirements development
- Validating the requirements document with key stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder consensus and conflict resolution
Assessing and Validating Solutions
Allocating requirements
- Maximizing business value
- Evaluating dependencies between individual requirements
Assessing organizational readiness
- Identifying gaps in organizational capability
- Defining business and technical organizational impacts
Building Business Analysis Competencies
- Moving beyond the technical mechanics of analysis
- Applying the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency framework
Requirements
This course is designed for individuals seeking a comprehensive understanding of the primary tasks and techniques in business analysis, as well as for those required to evaluate business options and outcomes effectively.
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.
