Business Analysis Foundations

About Course:

This course provides you with the foundational business analysis skills you need to elevate your value proposition to your stakeholders and organization. You will learn how to help your business clients articulate their business problem or opportunity, plan business analysis activities, as well as learn the basics of eliciting, analyzing, documenting, managing, and communicating requirements throughout the life cycle of an initiative. These foundational skills will enable you to contribute significantly to the success of your organization’s projects.

This course has been approved for 14 PDUs and 14 CDUs.

Course Objectives:

• Understand the 5 different types of requirements

• Increase project success by better defining the business need

• Ensure optimal productivity by learning how to plan requirement efforts

• Identify and analyze stakeholders

• Document “good” requirements by writing them clearly and completely using simple templates

• Learn how to trace and prioritize requirements to ensure they link to business value

Audience:

• New business analysts, people that have project experience but have not had formal business analysis training, or experienced BAs and project managers who want a more formal and industry-standard business analysis approach will gain new skills and methods from this course.

Prerequisites:

• None