Certificate: Course Completion Certificate
Duration:4 Days
Course Delivery: Classroom/ Virtual 
Language: English
Credits: 32
 
Course  Description:
This 4-day Business Analyst training course will give you hands-on experience with the latest proven techniques for identifying a project's scope, developing and discovering requirements and uses cases, and documenting them expertly. Lively lectures combined with insightful demonstrations and realistic practice exercises will provide you with the competence and confidence to improve project outcomes through better requirements elicitation and use case development. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the challenges faced in defining correct
requirements, practical approaches for eliciting and documenting requirements, and strategies for managing requirements throughout the project life cycle. If you play a role in defining project scope, capturing requirements, or managing project scope, you can't afford to miss this course!
Target Audience:
Anyone involved in business analysis would benefit from this business analyst training course. This business analyst training 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

 
 Learning Objectives:
Individuals certified at this level will have demonstrated their understanding of:

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 today’s Business Analysts

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Course Materials:
Students will receive a course manual with presentation slides and reference materials.
Examination:
There is no exam for this course.
Technical Requirements:
For eBooks:
Internet for downloading the eBook
Laptop, tablet, Smartphone, eReader (No Kindle)
Adobe DRM supported software (e.g. Digital Editions, Bluefire Reader)
eBook download and activation instructions
Agenda:
The Business Analysis Profession

IIBA® and the BABOK®
What is Business Analysis?
Business and Solution Domains—how they relate
Key roles in requirements development
The competencies of the Business Analyst
Distinguishing novice and expert Business Analysts
Effective communication
Six important BA skills
Practice sessions

The Business Case for Good Requirements

What is a good requirement?
Requirements attributes—who needs them?
Key practices that promote excellent requirements
The cost of requirements errors
Requirements engineering overview
Practice sessions

Foundations of Requirements Development

Key terms in requirements development
A strategy for analyzing systems
Common requirement-classification schemes
The three parts of a system
Levels and types of requirements
The importance of traceability
Understanding the business context of projects
Practice sessions

Project Initiation: Eliciting High-level and Mid-level Requirements

Understanding product vision and project scope
Identifying and describing project stakeholders
Modeling the business
Identifying systems and actors
Determining scope
Understanding and identifying use cases
Taking the Agile approach: writing user stories
Identifying and defining data
Documenting business rules
Finding quality attributes
Practice sessions

Improving Requirements Quality

Requirements quality
Common problems with requirements
Analyze for ambiguity
Requirements inspection, analysis and improvement
Defining and documenting the project scope
Practice sessions

Eliciting Detailed Requirements

Overview of requirements-elicitation techniques
Decompose processes to lowest levels
Document analysis
Modeling processes to generate interview questions
Interviewing the stakeholders
Documenting the interview and resulting requirements
Adding detail to requirements we already have
Refine and rewrite for clarity
Practice sessions

Documenting Requirements with Use Cases

Use case basics
Ways to identify use cases
Use cases and requirements
Usage narrative
Anatomy of a fully dressed use case
Writing effective use case narratives
Understanding sub-use cases
Linking use cases for larger or more complex systems
Use case quality
Avoiding common traps and pitfalls
Practice sessions

Packaging and Presenting Requirements

Organizing and packaging requirements
Presenting requirements for review
Baselining the requirements
Getting to consensus and approval
Conduct formal and informal reviews
Documenting requirements in a Requirements Specification
Practice sessions

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