Business Analysis: Fast Start in Business Analysis

Course Code: 2200-200-01-Z

Course Format: Instructor-Led Online

Prerequisites: 

• None

From enterprise analysis and scope definition to requirements determination and conceptual design, the Fast Start® in Business Analysis workshop gives analysts a thorough understanding of the entire Systems Development Life Cycle. Replete with both “hard” and “soft” skills, this three-day course builds a sound strategy for analyzing business processes and demonstrates how to apply concepts and practical techniques within the context of an experiential learning environment. Students emerge from this workshop with a solid foundation of business analysis thinking as well as a greater understanding that doing the right things is just as important as doing things right.

Topics:

Introduction

• Defining Business Analysis
• What is Business Analysis?
• What is a Business Analyst?
• International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
• Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK)
• Today’s Approach to Business Analysis
• The Systems Development Life Cycle
• Approvals

Enterprise Analysis

• What is Enterprise Analysis?
• Enterprise Analysis Activities
• What Has Changed?
• What Information Should We Gather for Enterprise
• Analysis?
• How Should We Collect This Information?
• Types of Information to Collect
• Sources of Information
• How Does Enterprise Analysis Help the Project?
• Real World Application

Requirements, Assumptions and Constraints

• Effective Requirements Practices
• Requirements
• Types of Requirements
• SMART Requirements
• Identifying User Requirements
• Functional Requirements
• Quality of User Requirements
• Quality of Service Requirements
• Assumptions
• Constraints
• Real-World Application

Defining a Solution

• Solution Definition
• System Improvement
• System Redesign
• Review Project Scope
• Conceptual Design Creates Change
• Process Improvement

Defining the Project Scope

• An Approach to Project Definition
• Step One—Identify Issues
• Uses for Issues
• Step Two—Recognize Future Benefits
• Step Three—Identify the Function
• Areas/Stakeholders and Sponsor
• Stakeholder
• The Project Sponsor
• Step Four—Diagram the Functional Flow
• Step Five—Define the Project Scope and Objectives
• Scope Exclusions
• Real World Applications

Procedure Analysis

• Preparing for Analysis
• What Information Should We Gather to Analyze?
• Why Perform Procedure Analysis?
• Definitions
• Performing Procedure Analysis
• Process Flow Modeling
• Why Create Models?
• Symbols used in Process Flow Models
• Swim Lane Diagram
• Guidelines for Creating Swim Lane Diagrams
• Process Scripts
• Old Procedure
• Process Script Procedure
• Real World Application

Interviewing

• Why Interview?
• Preparing for the Interview
• Interviewing Structure
• Question and Listening Techniques
• Listening for Requirements
• Holding the Interview
• Real World Application
• Systems Development
• Organizational Change
• Impact Analysis
• Process Improvement Impact
• Systems Development Impact
• Organizational Change Impact
• Real World Application

Solution Implementation Planning

• Systems Development Life Cycle Review
• Phases for Implementation Planning
• Planning to Implement the Future Changes
• Visualizing the Project Schedule for Implementing
• Step 1—Break the Project Down into Tasks
• Step 2—Assign Resources
• Step 3—Estimate Time
• Step 4—Sequence the Tasks
• Step 5—Chart the Plan
• Real World Application

Management Presentation

• Business Case Decision Package
• What’s in this Management Presentation?
• Presentations
• Rehearsal and Practice Run