COURSE 2000 | 2-DAY SESSION
Business Analyst Fundamentals
Master a toolkit of essential skills to thrive as a Business Analyst — with materials and content completely aligned with the IIBA® BOK
Analyze business problems and identify requirements for the correct solutions.
Delays, cancellations and defects in systems development projects stem in large part from our inability to understand project requirements and the environment in which they exist, as well as our inability to communicate those requirements clearly enough to enlist the collaboration and commitment of all core project stakeholders. In Business Analyst Fundamentals, you will learn key communication skills, leadership techniques and problem solving skills required to leverage your IT and business knowledge to effectively understand, document, and present the requirements that define a project's scope. This indispensable course solidifies the foundations of business analysis and equips business analysts with the critical thinking, analytical skills, and necessary people skills for thriving in their roles and adding measurable value to every project.
Develop critical Business Analyst skills.
Business Analysts provide an essential function by assessing and analyzing the business environment, defining the scope of business problems, capturing project requirements, designing high-value solution approaches, and ensuring that the defined scope meets the customer's needs, goals, objectives, and expectations. This practical workshop will provide participants with fundamental analysis tools and techniques, including methods to understand the business environment, define a problem using a systematic approach, assess the project feasibility, and influence and inform project stakeholders at all levels. You will gain pragmatic solutions to sustain stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle, including facilitation, questioning, listening, business need identification, problem solving, presentation, validation, and acceptance of the effective solution.
Practice real-world tools and techniques for immediate application.
This two-day course will give you hands-on experience with proven techniques for understanding a project's scope, identifying requirements, and documenting them expertly. Lively lectures combined with insightful demonstrations and realistic practice exercises provide you with the competence and confidence to improve project outcomes through better requirements. You'll gain a thorough understanding of common analysis pitfalls and challenges, practical approaches for discovering and writing project requirements, and strategies for applying the systems development life cycle methodology throughout the project. If you play a role in defining project scope or capturing and writing requirements, you can't afford to miss this course!
20 IMMEDIATELY useful benefits of attending this class:
- Learn how to help your business customers to be clear about the current state of their business
- Understand and influence how business processes may be improved
- Analyze your business stakeholders to develop an understanding of their needs
- Gain exposure to proven tools and techniques for defining project scope
- Improve project initiation by clarifying discussions of scope, increasing stakeholder involvement, and identifying exclusions and constraints up front
- Explore the Systems Development Life Cycle phases and the work to be done in each phase
- Understand the deliverables that should be produced during each phase of the life cycle
- Improve your questioning, listening, and validation skills with all types of people
- Communicate effectively with project stakeholders at all levels
- Help to bridge the gap between business customers and designers, developers, and testers
- Understand the organizational environment in which you are working and in which your project exists
- Identify relevant business opportunities and assess project feasibility
- Use practical, real-world methods for initiating productive conversations with users to identify the business problem to be solved
- Discover the attributes of well-written requirements
- Overcome common pitfalls and traps encountered during the analysis process
- Enhance relationships with stakeholders throughout your organization and improve your ability to satisfy stakeholders from both the business and the IT organizations
- Help your organization understand and apply state-of-the-art methods for analyzing and solving business problems
- Discover tips and tricks that have helped other Business Analysts be successful with real-world projects
- Shorten project schedules by reducing errors that lead to revision cycles
- Reduce project costs and improve quality by helping to develop the right requirements the right way the first time, every time!
ASPE has been reviewed and approved as a CPE training provider for the National Assoication of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). 12 CPEs are awarded upon full completion of Business Analyst Fundamentals.
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