Name: Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
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Duration:

24.00 hours

19.5 CPD hours

Overview:

This training course delivers an end-to-end business analysis process, incorporating industry best practices from IIBA®, BCS, and Project Management. You will improve your analytical competencies and learn to apply a core business analysis framework — from initiation, through requirements gathering and stakeholder management, to making a business case, delivering a solution, and validating outcomes

Description:

This training course delivers an end-to-end business analysis process, incorporating industry best practices from IIBA®, BCS, and Project Management. You will improve your analytical competencies and learn to apply a core business analysis framework — from initiation, through requirements gathering and stakeholder management, to making a business case, delivering a solution, and validating outcomes

Course Outline:

Defining Business Analysis

Overview of the business analysis discipline

- What is business analysis?
- The scope of the business analyst’s work
- Responsibilities of the business analyst
Introducing the business analysis process

- From strategy analysis to requirements engineering
- Best practices used throughout the business analysis process
Performing Strategic Analysis

Introducing strategy analysis

- Identifying strategic context
- Performing root cause analysis
Internal analysis

- Responding to business challenges through internal analysis
- Identifying your key stakeholders
- Clarifying the organisational mission using MOST
External analysis

- Optimising organisational flexibility using external analysis
- Investigating competitive pressures using Porter’s Five Forces
- Analysing the business landscape using PESTLE
Analysing and Managing Your Stakeholders

Identifying your stakeholders

- The stakeholder wheel and identification matrix
- Creating stakeholder personas
Analysing your stakeholders

- Examining stakeholder impact for your project
- Evaluating stakeholder attitude towards your project
- Placing your stakeholder in the organisational hierarchy using STOP
- Developing action-oriented business initiatives to address business needs and opportunities
Managing your stakeholders

- Interacting with your stakeholders
- Creating a stakeholder communication plan
- Assessing your stakeholders
Defining the Solution

Exploring business and technical options

- Forming scope from business goals and objectives
- Writing the business requirements
Developing criteria and solutions

- Making use of affinity diagrams to elicit high-level criteria
- Comparing evaluation techniques
Making the Business Case

- The structure of the business case
- Creating a pyramid of information
Using customer-focused persuasion

- Analysing costs and benefits
- Categories of costs and benefits
- Identifying tangible and intangible costs and benefits
- Investment appraisal using a cash flow forecast
- Evaluating risk and impact
The Requirements Engineering Framework

Defining requirements

- The cost of poor requirements
- Distinguishing between functional and non-functional requirements
- Key sources of requirements
Planning the requirements communication process

- Addressing common pitfalls typically encountered during requirements development
- Actors in the requirements engineering process
- Dealing with tacit and explicit knowledge
Developing the requirements document

- Building the requirements list
- Applying requirements filters
- Developing well-formed requirements
Establishing the Requirements

The elicitation process

- Elicitation tools and techniques
- Guidelines and checklists
Eliciting the requirements

- Conducting effective interviews and workshops
- Deploying observation techniques
- Getting user feedback by using prototypes
- Analysing the situation using visualisation techniques
- Spotting non-functional requirements using quantitative analysis
Analysing the Requirements

Organising and prioritising requirements

- Arranging requirements by focus
- Gap analysis techniques
Employing modelling techniques

- Modelling the business context
- Shaping the business processes
- Inspecting the requirements
Writing the Requirements Documentation

Creating formal requirements documentation

- Structuring a standard functional requirement
- Structuring a standard non-functional requirement
Creating agile requirements documentation

- Developing and splitting user stories
- Crafting, and elaborating on, use cases
Validating the requirements

- Stakeholders and their areas of concern
- Types of validation
Managing the written requirements

- Dealing with changing requirements
- Sources of requirements change
- Components of requirements management
Presenting the Business Solution

- Delivering the requirements
- Transferring the business solution
- Supporting developmental activities

Available Delivery Options for Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects

Live Instructor Led Classroom Online (Live Online)
Traditional Instructor Led Classroom training (TILT/ILT)
Delivery at your offices in United Kingdom
Private dedicated course for your staff

How many CPD hours does Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects provide?

The 3 day Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects course gives you up to 19.5 CPD hours/structured learning hours.

Do you provide training for Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects?

Yes, we provide corporate training, dedicated training and closed classes for Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects. This can take place anywhere in United Kingdom including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh or live online.

What is the duration of Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects?

The Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects training takes place over 3 day(s), with each day lasting approximately 24.00 hours including breaks.

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Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects