Training description
Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects LT0211E 
Target audience
- Anyone interested in a broad overview of key tasks conducted by a business analyst or needing to know
- how to effectively analyse business options and outcomes.
Course objective
- Business analysis is a critical process that drives the project life cycle. The business analyst, acting as an
- intermediary between the business and technical communities, analyses competing business needs and
- develops plans to implement the projects that support stakeholder objectives. In this course, you gain
- foundational knowledge of the role and function of the business analyst. You also learn to apply a clearly
- defined business analysis framework.
- You Will Learn How To
- Perform key functions of the business analyst
- Apply a solid business analysis framework
- Evaluate and prioritise the feasibility of various business initiatives
- Quantify appropriate benefits and costs to support a business case
- Plan a detailed requirements development process using best practices
- Deliver the requirements package and support downstream development
Requirements
Course content
- The Role of the Business Analyst
- Overview of business analysis
- Key roles and responsibilities
- Business analysis vs. project management: analysing similarities and distinctions
- The Business Analysis Framework
- Clarifying core concepts
- Positioning business analysis within the overall project life cycle
- Distinguishing among business, user and system level needs
- Choosing a business analysis approach
- IIBA®-defined Knowledge Areas
- Recommended baseline framework for conducting business analysis activities
- Analysing the Business Landscape
- Diagnosing the business environment
- Capturing business needs and/or opportunities across the enterprise
- Categorising and prioritising issues using Affinity Diagrams
- Exposing root causes of problems
- Identifying action-oriented business initiatives that address the root problem
- Evaluating and selecting an initiative
- Conducting feasibility studies
- Employing analysis techniques to assess alternatives
- 2x2 analysis grid
- Prioritisation matrices
- Paired comparison analysis
- Modelling the future vision
- Describing the future state using workflow diagrams
- Considering incremental improvement vs. business transformation
- Defining the Project
- Documenting critical project parameters
- Building SMART project objectives
- Specifying critical project elements and deliverables
- Preparing the business case
- Structuring the business case
- Identifying quantitative and qualitative project benefits and costs
- Planning the Requirements
- Development Process
- Assessing stakeholder roles and responsibilities
- Identifying internal and external stakeholders
- Conducting stakeholder analysis
- Determining project approach and key assumptions
- Documenting guiding principles, ground rules and templates
- Producing a requirements development plan to guide and manage the process
- Developing and Delivering the Detailed Requirements Package
- Incorporating the 5-step model
- Eliciting stakeholder wants and needs
- Analysing stated requirements
- Specifying the requirements document
- Validating the requirements document with key stakeholders
- Managing the change control process
- Applying requirements development best practices and standards
- Addressing common challenges typically encountered during requirements development
- Recognising existing industry standards
- Communicating effectively to relevant stakeholders
- Engaging the development community
- Selling the message for optimal acceptance
- Supporting Downstream Development
- Tailoring the business analyst role throughout the project life cycle
- Adapting the framework to real-world scenarios
Notes
- Workshop Course
- You perform the key functions of a business analyst through an evolving case study woven throughout
- the course. Workshops include:
- Clarifying the role of the business analyst
- Analysing and prioritising competing business needs
- Creating dynamic business models using workflow diagrams
- Writing SMART business objectives
- Quantifying business case benefits and costs
- Communicating the requirements package to stakeholders
Duration
3 Days
