Course Outline
Defining Business Analysis
Overview of the business analysis discipline
- Essential 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 provided by 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
- Performing enterprise-level contextual analysis using strategic, tactical, and operational tools
Identifying the nine elicitation techniques
- Verifying the necessary steps for information gathering
- Documenting and confirming elicitation outcomes
Conducting Enterprise Analysis
Analyzing the business landscape
- Categorizing and prioritizing business needs and issues using affinity diagrams
- Evaluating business capabilities and identifying gaps
Detecting problems and uncovering opportunities
- Revealing the root causes of issues
- Identifying opportunities for growth
- Determining the elements of the initial solution scope
- Creating action-oriented business initiatives to address needs and opportunities
Evaluating the feasibility of options
- Using the 2x2 analysis grid
- Employing prioritization matrices
- Predicting project benefits and costs
Documenting key 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
- Constructing the communication plan
Performing stakeholder analysis
- Identifying primary stakeholders
- Analyzing the impact stakeholders have on the project
Developing 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
- Validating, prioritizing, and organizing requirements
- Compiling the requirements document
- Determining key relationships through traceability
Implementing the communication plan
- Mitigating common pitfalls often encountered during requirements development
- Validating the requirements document with key stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder alignment and conflicts
Assessing and Validating Solutions
Allocating requirements
- Maximizing business value
- Assessing dependencies among individual requirements
Evaluating organizational readiness
- Recognizing gaps in organizational capabilities
- Defining business and technical organizational impacts
Developing Business Analysis Competencies
- Moving beyond the mechanical aspects of analysis
- Applying the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency framework
Requirements
This course is tailored for individuals seeking a broad understanding of the primary tasks and techniques in business analysis, as well as for professionals who must effectively evaluate business options and outcomes.
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.
