Description

Unlock your potential and boost your career with our 3-day Business Analysis training. 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.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the role, responsibilities, and competencies of a business analyst and how they add organizational value
• Develop approaches for engaging stakeholders and eliciting requirements
• Elaborate on high level scope to detailed requirements
• Incorporate effective communication and writing practices into business analysis activities
• Conduct a gap analysis to assess current state and make future state recommendations
• Apply business analysis best practices, tools, and techniques including process modelling, use case diagrams and data models

Part 1: Introduction to Business Analysis

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.

• Business Analysis Overview
• Roles and Responsibilities
• IIBA® and the BABOK®
• Business Analysis Skills
• Delivery Approaches

Part 2: Initiation and Planning

To increase project success, we need a repeatable, scalable strategy for effective business analysis and requirements management. In this section, we will explore a framework for BA involvement in project initiation and the practices needed to maximize success.

• Initiation and Strategy Analysis
• Business cases
• Vision, objectives and scope
• Business analysis planning
• Stakeholder analysis

Part 3: Elicitation and Requirements

Knowing which requirements to capture and at what level is an essential skill for business analysts. This module provides a deep dive into elicitation techniques and how to tailor them to stakeholders across the organization. We will explore the difference between traditional and agile requirements and how to capture non-functional requirements.

• Elicitation Techniques
• Requirements Classification
• Agile Requirements
• Tailoring techniques

Part 4: Requirements Analysis

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, identifying requirement gaps, adding detailed solution requirements, and conducting requirements analysis.

• Requirements Analysis Techniques
• Modelling the Future State
• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
• Preparing Detailed Requirements
• Connection Between Use Cases and User Stories

Part 5: Requirements Documentation and Management

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 requirements quality and prioritization to minimize rework and scope creep.

• Effective Requirements Documentation
• Requirements Verification and Validation
• Requirements Management
• Prioritization Techniques
• Requirements Traceability

Part 6: Solution Validation and Wrap Up

This portion of the course 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 the process of managing requirement changes, how to support alignment of the solution to the baselined requirements and wrap up with determining a strategy for business analysis work.

• Strategy for Business Analysis Work
• Working with Solution Teams
• Managing Requirement Change
• Solution Evaluation