Course Outline
Defining Business Analysis
Overview of the business analysis discipline
- Key roles and responsibilities
- Distinguishing business analysis from other related disciplines
Introducing 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
Gathering business needs at organizational or departmental levels
- Conducting needs analysis
- Selecting the most appropriate elicitation techniques
- Obtaining enterprise-level contextual insights using strategic, tactical, and operational tools
Identifying the nine elicitation techniques
- Validating the essential steps for information gathering
- Documenting and verifying elicitation outcomes
Conducting Enterprise Analysis
Analyzing the business landscape
- Classifying and prioritizing business needs and issues using affinity diagrams
- Evaluating business capabilities and identifying gaps
Detecting problems and finding opportunities
- Uncovering the root causes of problems
- Discovering avenues for growth
- Defining the components of the initial solution scope
- Creating action-oriented business initiatives to address needs and capitalize on opportunities
Measuring the feasibility of options
- Utilizing the 2x2 analysis grid
- Applying prioritization matrices
- Predicting project benefits and costs
Documenting critical project parameters
- Formulating SMART project objectives
- Specifying essential project elements and deliverables
Planning and Monitoring the Business Analysis Process
Planning for requirements analysis
- Recording assumptions, ground rules, and templates
- Drafting a requirements development plan to steer and manage the process
- Constructing the communication plan
Performing stakeholder analysis
- Identifying primary stakeholders
- Evaluating the influence stakeholders have on project outcomes
Developing a change management process
- Establishing a baseline for your plan
- Adhering to the defined change management procedure
- Overseeing the change control workflow
Managing and Communicating Requirements
Analyzing requirements
- Verifying, prioritizing, and organizing requirements
- Compiling the requirements specification document
- Making key relationships explicit through traceability
Executing the communication plan
- Mitigating common pitfalls often encountered during requirements development
- Validating the requirements document with key stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder alignment and resolving conflicts
Assessing and Validating Solutions
Allocating requirements
- Maximizing business value
- Assessing dependencies among individual requirements
Assessing organizational readiness
- Recognizing gaps in organizational capability
- Defining the business and technical impacts on the organization
Developing Business Analysis Competencies
- Moving beyond the technical mechanics of analysis
- Applying the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency framework
Requirements
This course is designed for individuals seeking a comprehensive understanding of the core tasks and techniques in business analysis, or for professionals who need to efficiently evaluate business options and outcomes.
Testimonials (7)
the lessons
Angela - PT Andalan Teknologi Bersama
Course - Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects
RACI table
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.