Unlock your potential and boost your career with our 3-day Business Analysis training course! Gain hands-on experience that will enable you to expertly identify project scope, discover requirements, and create user stories and use cases that make a difference.

Through dynamic lectures, insightful demonstrations and practical exercises, you’ll gain the competence and confidence needed to elevate your BA outcomes. Master the art of requirements elicitation and development to ensure clear actionable results. Learn how to handle the challenges of defining requirements and gain practical strategies to manage them effectively across project stages.

Part 1: The Business Analysis Profession

While people have been performing the Business Analyst role in organizations for several decades, differing definitions of the role abound. We ‘ll start the workshop by exploring some of them, as well as gaining a clear understanding of the profession of business analysis.

1. IIBA ® and the BABOK®
2. What is Business Analysis?
3. Business and Solutions Domains – how they relate
4. Key roles in requirements development in SDLC and Agile Projects
5. The competencies of the Business Analyst
6. Distinguishing novice and expert Business Analysts
7. Six important BA Skills

Part 2: Foundations of Requirements Development

IT Projects have especially high failure rates, and evidence points to problems with defining requirements as one primary cause. To increase project success, we need to implement a repeatable, scalable strategy for effective business analysis. In this section, we will explore a framework in which good business analysis occurs, and discuss ways to maximize project success using this framework.

1. Key terms in requirements development
2. Common requirement classification schemes
3. Three levels of a system
4. Levels of requirements
5. Requirements versus design
6. Requirements attributes

Part 3: Project Initiation: Eliciting High-level and Mid-level Requirements

What most people think of as business analysis is central to project initiation. Because of the depth of the skill these activities require, most Business Analysts demand sperate training to develop true mastery. This course module provides an overview and introduction to crucial business analysis activities by demonstrating common tools for identifying and documenting project scope, for modeling current and desired states, and for stakeholder and persona identification

1. Understanding the business contexts of projects
2. Understanding vision
3. Identifying and describing project stakeholders and personas
4. Defining and documenting the project scope
5. Modeling the business
6. Analyzing the current state and the future state
7. Identifying stakeholders, systems and actors

Part 4: Eliciting Detailed Requirements

Savvy business analysts have a variety of techniques for finding the detailed functional and non-functional requirements on their projects. This section introduces several analysis techniques and discusses their use in requirements elicitation and how to capture and document the requirements, including effective requirements analysis and traceability.

1. Overview of requirements elicitation techniques
2. Interviewing stakeholders
3. Documenting the interview and resulting requirements
4. Identifying and defining data
5. Documenting business rules
6. Understanding and identifying use cases and Agile user stories
7. Documenting requirements with Use Case Narratives
8. Identifying functional and non-functional requirements
9. Better user stories using the INVEST model
10. Requirements Modeling to identify gaps

Part 5: Improving and Packaging Requirements

After we’ve elicited the detailed requirements for our project, we want to assess those requirements for quality and effectiveness so that we can refine and improve those requirements. In this section, we’ll take a closer look at the issue of requirements quality and discuss how to document the scope of the project to minimize rework and scope creep.

1. Requirements inspection, analysis and improvement
2. Writing Quality requirements
3. Analyze for ambiguity
4. The importance of traceability
5. Organizing and packaging requirements
6. Understanding and selecting requirements artifacts
7. Baselining the requirements

Part 6: Presenting Requirements and Managing Change

This portion of the Boot Camp begins the shift from the requirements and analysis stage for the BA to the development and testing stage of the project lifecycle. We will look at requirement reviews, the process of managing requirement changes and how to support alignment of the solution to the baselined requirements.

1. Conducting formal and informal requirements reviews
2. Working with the solution team
3. Understanding the BA in testing
4. Managing requirements changes
5. User story backlog management

Part 7: Wrap Up