Business Analysis Essentials
AMA - American Management Association
Course description
Business Analysis Essentials
In this introductory , you'll discover the role and responsibilities of a business analyst. As the communication link between all business areas, the business analyst is a critical player in a project’s success. From identifying and analyzing potential projects to making sure that the final product meets the requirements you identified—you’ll learn techniques for ensuring project success every step of the way.
Through practical, experiential learning exercises you'll discover how to define the scope of work and master requirements-gathering techniques that will work for a variety of projects and audiences. You will also learn how to consider the needs of customers, stakeholders, and the IT department as you work toward building, documenting, communicating, and managing requirements.
How You Will Benefit
- Role of the business analyst
- Build and evaluate a business case
- Plan, manage, analyze, document andcommunicate requirements
- Conduct effective interviews, groupworkshops and questionnaires
- Data mining
- Capture and document business rules
- Earn agreement
- Ensure requirements are met
Who should attend?
Systems analysts, business analysts, requirements analysts, developers, software engineers, IT project managers, project managers, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, program managers, testers, and QA specialists.
Training content
Overview of Business Analysis
- The solutions life cycle
- What is business analysis?
- Business analysis terminology
- International Institute of Business Analysis
- CBAP® certification
Enterprise Analysis
- The business architecture
- Feasibility studies
- Project scope
- Business case
- Risk assessment
- Decision package
- Selecting and prioritizing projects
Requirements Planning and Management
- Team roles for the project
- Work division strategy
- Requirements risk approach
- Planning considerations
- Requirements activities
- Selection
- Estimation
- Requirements scope
- Requirements change management
Requirements Elicitation
- Elicit requirements
- Techniques
- Workshop
- Reverse engineering
- Survey/questionnaire
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
- Requirements package
- Business domain model
- Analyze user requirements
- Analyze functional requirements
- Analyze quality of requirements
- Assumptions and constraints
- Requirements management
- Modeling techniques
Costs
price for:
- Non Members: $2295.00
- AMA Members: $2295.00
- GSA: $2295.00
Certification / Credits
PDU: 21
About AMA
American Management Association Company Info
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