Course Outline
Defining Business Analysis
The scope of 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
Collating business needs at organisational or departmental levels
- Conducting needs analysis
- Selecting the most appropriate elicitation techniques
- Obtaining enterprise-level contextual analysis using strategic, tactical, and operational tools
Recognising the nine elicitation techniques
- Confirming the necessary steps for information gathering
- Documenting and verifying elicitation outcomes
Conducting Enterprise Analysis
Examining the business landscape
- Classifying and prioritising business needs and issues using affinity diagrams
- Evaluating business capabilities and gaps
Identifying problems and uncovering opportunities
- Revealing the root causes of issues
- Discovering opportunities for growth
- Defining elements of the initial solution scope
- Formulating action-oriented business initiatives to address needs and opportunities
Evaluating the feasibility of options
- 2x2 analysis grid
- Prioritisation matrices
- Projecting project benefits and costs
Recording critical project parameters
- Formulating SMART project objectives
- Specifying critical project elements and deliverables
Planning and Monitoring the Business Analysis Process
Planning for requirements analysis
- Documenting assumptions, ground rules, and templates
- Developing a requirements development plan to guide and manage the process
- Constructing the communication plan
Performing stakeholder analysis
- Identifying key stakeholders
- Analysing the impact stakeholders have on a 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
- Verifying, prioritising, and organising requirements
- Structuring the requirements document
- Identifying key relationships using traceability
Executing the communication plan
- Addressing common pitfalls typically encountered during requirements development
- Validating the requirements document with key stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder agreement and conflict
Assessing and Validating Solutions
Allocating requirements
- Optimising business value
- Evaluating dependencies between individual requirements
Assessing organisational readiness
- Identifying organisational capability gaps
- Defining business and technical organisational impacts
Developing Business Analysis Competencies
- Going beyond the mechanics of analysis
- Applying the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency framework
Requirements
This course is designed for individuals seeking to gain comprehensive knowledge of the key tasks and techniques associated with business analysis, or those required to effectively evaluate business options and outcomes.
Testimonials (7)
the lessons
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.
