Fundamentals of Business Analysis
Get the foundation in business analysis you need to solve your organization's biggest problems.
Learn the foundations of business analysis
Learn how to gather requirements from stakeholders and documentary sources
Learn how to analyze, diagram and model requirements
Learn how to present requirements effectively and gain acceptance
Learn how to manage requirements assets after the project is complete
Course Overview
This course provides everything you need to get started in your career in business analysis.
Our courses focus on how analysis is performed in the real world, and they’re full of examples, case studies and lessons learned from actual Business Analysts on the job.
This is a perfect first course in any business analysis curriculum.
Syllabus
1. Business Analysis
2. Stakeholders
- Who are they? And why do they matter?
- The most common stakeholders: The project team, management, and the front line
- Handling Stakeholder Conflicts
3. Life Cycles
- Systems Development Life Cycles
- Project Life Cycles
- Product Life Cycles
- Requirement Life Cycles
- Seventh Morning’s Requirements Development Life Cycle
4. Forming Requirements
- Overview of Requirements
- Attributes of Good Requirements
- Types of Requirements
- Requirement Sources
- Gathering Requirements from Stakeholders
- Common Requirements Documents
5. Transforming Requirements
- Stakeholder Needs Analysis
- Decomposition Analysis
- Additive/Subtractive Analysis
- Gap Analysis
- Notations (UML & BPMN)
- Flowcharts
- Swim Lane Flowcharts
- Entity-Relationship Diagrams
- State-Transition Diagrams
- Data Flow Diagrams
- Use Case Modeling
- Business Process Modeling
6. Finalizing Requirements
- Presenting – 10 Tips
- Presenting Requirements
- Socializing Requirements and Gaining Acceptance
- Prioritizing Requirements
7. Managing Requirements Assets
- Change Control
- Requirements Tools
8. Scenario
Overview of Business Analysis
1
Introduction to the Course
2
What is Business Analysis?
3
What is Business Analysis?
4
The Value of Business Analysis
5
The Value of Business Analysis
6
What Problems does it Address?
7
What Problems does it Address?
8
Requirements
9
Requirements
10
Who Performs Business Analysis?
11
Who Performs Business Analysis?
12
The Business Analyst Role
13
Quiz: The Business Analyst Role
14
Section 1 Materials
15
Introductions
Stakeholders
1
Overview of Stakeholders
2
Stakeholders
3
The Project Manager
4
The Project Manager
5
The Developer
6
The Developer
7
The QA/Testing Professional
8
The QA/Testing Professional
9
Management
10
Management
11
The Front Line
12
The Front Line
13
Managing Stakeholder Conflict
14
Managing Stakeholder Conflict
15
Section 2 Materials
16
Stakeholders
Lifecycles
1
Overview of Life Cycles
2
The PLC and SDLC
3
The PLC and SDLC
4
Waterfall and Iterative SDLCs
5
Waterfall and Iterative SDLCs
6
Agile SDLCs
7
Agile SDLCs
8
The Product Life Cycle
9
The Product Life Cycle
10
Requirements Life Cycles
11
Requirements Life Cycles
12
NorwalkAberdeen's Requirements Definition Model
13
NorwalkAberdeen's Requirements Definition Model
14
Section 3 Materials
15
Life Cycles
Forming Requirements
1
Overview of Requirements
2
Overview of Requirements
3
Attributes of Good Requirements
4
Attributes of Good Requirements
5
Business Requirements
6
Business Requirements
7
User Requirements
8
User Requirements
9
Functional Requirements
10
Functional Requirements
11
Nonfunctional Requirements
12
Nonfunctional Requirements
13
Requirement Sources
14
Requirement Sources
15
Gathering Requirements in One-on-One Interviews
16
Gathering Requirements in One-on-One Interviews
17
Gathering Requirements in Group Interviews
18
Gathering Requirements in Group Interviews
19
Common Requirements Documents
20
Common Requirements Documents
21
Agile Requirements
22
Agile Requirements
23
Section 4 Materials
24
Group Interviewing
Transforming Requirements
1
Overview of Analysis
2
"Thinking about Stuff"
3
Decomposition Analysis
4
Decomposition Analysis
5
Additive/Subtractive Analysis
6
Additive/Subtractive Analysis
7
Gap Analysis
8
Gap Analysis
9
Decision Analysis
10
Decision Analysis
11
Root Cause Analysis
12
Root Cause Analysis
13
Stakeholder Needs Analysis
14
Stakeholder Needs Analysis
15
Overview of Modeling
16
Flowcharts
17
Flowcharts
18
Swim Lane Flowcharts
19
Swim Lane Flowcharts
20
Entity-Relationship Modeling
21
Entity-Relationship Modeling
22
State-Transition Modeling
23
State-Transition Modeling
24
Data Flow Modeling
25
Data Flow Modeling
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