Full-Spectrum Business Analyst Training and Skills Development

Learn how to:

• Bridge the expectations gap between business stakeholders and technology solution providers
• Enhance business analysis techniques to reduce project cost
• Implement practical methods for understanding user requirements
• Improve your requirements elicitation, development and documentation
• Understand and describe the business environment in which a project exists
• Explore proven tactics for managing project scope
• Focus on discovering root causes, not just symptoms
• Gain tools and techniques for developing more precise requirements
• Practice state-of-the-art business and system modeling techniques
• Organize and categorize project requirements
• Quickly identify accurate use cases for new or enhanced business systems
• Produce high-quality, readable use case documentation
• Avoid common use case traps and pitfalls
• Overcome real-world challenges that confront todays Business Analysts

Immediate Benefits of Attending This Class:

• Learn how to help your business customers be clear about the current state of their business
• Understand and influence how business processes can be improved
• 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
• 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
• Use practical, real-world methods for initiating conversations with users to identify the business problem to be solved
• Discover tips and tricks that have helped other Business
• Analysts be successful with real-world projects
• Examine, review and refine requirements so they are specific, accurate and unambiguous
• Use effective practices for interviewing business customers to learn their requirements
• Learn the fundamentals of business process modeling for eliciting requirements
• Examine ways to discover and write business rules that affect a system
• Understand the importance of categorizing and prioritizing requirements
• Distinguish business and user requirements from solution requirements and know when it's appropriate to define and document each
• Manage project scope by identifying and managing changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Learn how use cases fit into the life cycle
• Understand the relationship between use cases and requirements
• Translate users' statements of needed system behavior and functionality into high-quality use-cases
• Determine and document normal, alternate, and exception scenarios
• Overcome common pitfalls and traps encountered when using the use case approach
• 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 discovering and documenting project requirements
• Better control project scope by identifying and gaining consensus on requirements throughout the project life cycle
• Reduce project costs and improve their quality by defining the right requirements the right way the first time, every time!

Who Should Attend

Anyone involved in business analysis would benefit from this class. This course is perfect for you if you are a(n)

• Business customer, user or partner
• Business Analyst
• Business Systems Analyst
• Systems Analyst
• Project Manager or Team Leader
• Systems Architect or Designer
• IT Manager/Director
• Systems or Application Developer
• QA Professional
• Systems Tester
• Anyone wanting to enhance their business analysis skills