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Business Analysis Essentials

Master the fundamentals of business analysis and become a critical player in project success. Learn techniques for identifying and analyzing potential projects, managing requirements, and ensuring project success every step of the way. Ideal for systems analysts, project managers, testers, and QA specialists.

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  • 21 and older
  • $2,295
  • Live, interactive online classroom
  • 489 hours over 60 sessions
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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this business training:

Explore the business analysis fundamentals.

In this introductory course, you'll discover the role and responsibilities of a business analyst. As the communication link between all business areas, the business analyst is a critical player in a project’s success. From identifying and analyzing potential projects to making sure that the final product meets the requirements you identified—you’ll learn techniques for ensuring project success every step of the way.

Through practical, experiential learning exercises you'll discover how to define the scope of work and master requirements-gathering techniques that will work for a variety of projects and audiences. You will also learn how to consider the needs of customers, stakeholders, and the IT department as you work toward building, documenting, communicating, and managing requirements.

Who Should Attend

Systems analysts, business analysts, requirements analysts, developers, software engineers, IT project managers, project managers, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, program managers, testers, and QA specialists.

What You Will Cover

Overview of Business Analysis 

  • The solutions life cycle
  • What is business analysis?
  • Business analysis terminology
  • International Institute of Business
  • Analysis course
  • CBAP® certification

Enterprise Analysis

  • The business architecture
  • Feasibility studies
  • Project scope
  • Business case
  • Risk assessment
  • Decision package
  • Selecting and prioritizing projects

Requirements Planning and Management

  • Team roles for the project
  • Work division strategy
  • Requirements risk approach
  • Planning considerations
  • Requirements activities
  • Selection
  • Estimation
  • Requirements scope
  • Requirements change management

Requirements Elicitation

  • Elicit requirements
  • Techniques
  • Workshop
    —Reverse engineering
    —Survey/questionnaire

Requirements Analysis and Documentation

  • Requirements package
  • Business domain model
  • Analyze user requirements
  • Analyze functional requirements
  • Analyze quality of requirements
  • Assumptions and constraints
  • Requirements management
  • Modeling techniques

Requirements Communication: Communication plan and manage conflicts

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

For Classroom, Live Online, Express Skills Courses and Webinar programs, you may transfer to a future session, send someone to take your place, or cancel for a 5% fee up to 23 days prior to your program.

If you provide AMA with less than 23 days’ notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire program fee.

Programs included in AMA On Demand offerings are not eligible for substitution, transfer, cancellation, return, or refund. We appreciate that this is an important investment for you and your company and would like to accommodate your needs the best we can.

Please email us at [email protected]

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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