Programs and Courses

 

BAR program

• Business Analysis Fundamentals
• Discovering Requirements with Use Cases
• CBAP® Certification Study Program
• Facilitating Requirements Workshops
• Requirements: Gathering to Documenting

GOLD program

• Effectively Managing the Service Provider
• How to Make Distributed Teams Work
• Achieving Success with Offshore Resources
• Communicating Requirements to Offshore Resources

PM program

• PMP® Certification: What & How to Study
• Project Management: Advanced Topics
• Project Management Essentials
• Project Execution Techniques

PS program

• Collaborative Consulting
• Presentations That Count
• Making the Business Case
• Creating Valued Solutions
• The Professional’s Toolkit

Each program or course can be custom-tailored for your needs.

Fast Track in Business Analysis

ABSTRACT

This workshop provides hands-on experience with the latest proven techniques for assessing business need and scope in addition to gathering, analyzing, refining and documenting various types of requirement needed to determine the appropriate solution. You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the challenges faced in defining effective requirements and determining the right tool or technique to use for that challenge. Interviewing, business modeling and the application of use cases are emphasized with lively practice sessions. This workshop content is ideal to help you prepare for the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®)  exam.  BABOK® version 2.0

AUDIENCE

This workshop is intended for those currently in the role of a Business Analyst or who are changing their roles and becoming Business Analysts.

DURATION

3 days

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Explore perspectives on the differences between novice and expert Business Analysts and understand the competencies one must possess to maximize project success
• Understand the importance of defining the business problem to be solved
• Learn ways to identify key project stakeholders, users and user classes
• Discover ways to clarify communications regarding the product scope
• Select tools and techniques to best gather requirements based on the project environment
• Identify key questions that will help uncover more specific and detailed requirement
• Uncover missing requirements through the use of various analysis tools
• Conduct facilitated workshops
• Write various types of use cases

TOPICS

• Business Analysis Overview
• Stakeholder Identification
• Defining and Validating Product Scope
• Gathering Business, Stakeholder and Solution Requirements
• Analyzing Requirements with Business Modeling
• Refining Requirement Quality
• Organizing and Packaging Requirements
• Using Use Cases for Elicitation and Validation
• Tracing and Managing Requirement Changes

Code:  LCP027