Business Analysis Essentials is a three-day, integrated case-study-based class. This foundational course provides a solid comprehension and applications of business analysis concepts, tools, and techniques. It enables the participant to discover a wealth of valuable, flexible best practices that he/she use in any project in any organization. This course is aligned with the latest version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)™.
Business Analysis Essentials addresses the entire scope of business analysis: before, during, and after a solution to a business problem is implemented. It enables participants to appreciate the value that business analysis delivers in formulating and executing business strategy.
A business case contains all the reasons that your project should go ahead and receive investment. You can think of the business case as a document that researches, details, and explains the investment in a project. It provides the rationale and motivation to do a project, and its purpose is for decision-makers to agree to begin the project. It assesses and measures the benefits, costs, and risks associated with the proposed investment in a project. It sets and evaluates the options available to solve a business issue.
Without a business case, your project will never get off the ground since the case contains all the reasons that your project should go ahead and receive investment. This lesson provides step-by-step instructions and what to include in your business case.
Developing a Project Business Case is a three-day, integrated case-study-based class. This course provides step-by-step instructions on why you need a project business case, what a project business case includes, how to develop it, how to present it, and how to evaluate it. This course is aligned with the latest version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)™.
A business process model is a roadmap that identifies the steps of completing a specific task. A business analyst develops process models for a business to evaluate managerial and operational processes. Once he/she creates the process model, the business analyst can assess how effective the business processes are and analyze areas that need to be improved. Once he/she has identified at which stage the process is failing, he/she can determine the best solution.
Business Analysis Process Modeling is a three-day, integrated case-study-based class. The delegates will practice identifying and prioritizing processes that require improvement, modeling these processes, developing changes to improve performance, and creating documents to communicate these changes to the rest of the organization. This course is aligned with the latest version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)™.
A critical success factor for a successful business analysis effort is a strategically balanced plan. This course teaches you how to determine which activities must focus on business and organizational issue(s), develop an initial plan showing what to do, who we will do it, when to do it, etc.
Participants in this course will examine the processes and activities needed to perform comprehensive business analysis planning and monitoring, acquire the tools that drive business analysis, and learn to identify and analyze stakeholders' interests, ensure their active involvement during the project, and select the appropriate process re-engineering methodologies. Therefore, we recommended that students complete the Business Analysis Essentials class before enrolling in this course. This course is aligned with the latest version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)™.
Requirements Management and Communications is a four-day, integrated case-study-based class. It sharpens the business analyst skills in verbal and written communication in the context of building influential workgroups and bringing forward recommendation(s) for acceptance and post-completion evaluation. In addition to their analytical skills, business analysts must work as collaborators, internal negotiators, motivators, and integrators for successful outcomes. Additionally, this pivotal role requires the expertise and skills for communicating technical concepts to a varying audience, such as professional groups, hierarchical positions, or internal support departments.
This course teaches you how to build effective work teams, guide them toward high potential pay-off outcomes while managing conflicts, issues, and changes resulting in stakeholder agreements on the solution scope and needed changes. This course thoroughly covers the processes of requirements analysis, management, and communication. It enables your team to transform a collection of basic elicited requirements statements into complete and correct sets of requirements. This complete set of requirements helps you effectively guide the development of your processes and system solutions. Topics covered in this course include but mot limited to examining tools and techniques for modeling system requirements, negotiating controversial issues with stakeholders, documenting the needs, and supporting the review and approval of the solution requirements. This course is aligned with the latest version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)™.
Assessing, validating, and implementing the solution depends on the alternatives identified through eliciting and managing requirements. In this final process step, the business analyst can strategically propose and model effective solutions within the organization's context.
This four-day, integrated case-study-based class covers developing estimates for the time, resources, and costs required to implement solutions that meet the project requirements. In addition, it focuses on the processes of designing and implementing solutions with measurable, reportable outcomes.
In this course, the participant will practice how to facilitate the solution process, which includes developing alternatives, selecting a solution, ensuring usability, supporting the quality assurance, and implementing the solution on time within budget.
A pivotal component of a business analyst's job is the ability to assess projects after implementation. This course teaches the skills required to evaluate internal reporting technology options and reporting formats. In addition, it covers effective stakeholder communications of the impacts and post-implementation reviews and inspections. This course is aligned with the latest version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)™.
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In today’s society, many people experience information overload. We are bombarded with messages to endorse various ideas, purchase things, support causes, and lead our lifestyle in a particular way. How do you know what to believe? How do you separate the truth from the myths?
The answer lies in critical thinking skills. The ability to reason through problems and to present arguments in a logical, compelling way has become an essential skill for survival in today’s world. This two-day workshop will give you some practical tools and hands-on experience with critical thinking and problem-solving. This course is aligned with the latest version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)™.
This course focuses on teaching the facilitation skills necessary to elicit and analyze requirements on a project. Effective facilitation is a critical competency of the business analyst for working with stakeholders to produce, document, analyze, validate and achieve consensus on requirements. In this highly interactive course, you will learn how to effectively help stakeholders define their needs and form these into quantifiable requirements through facilitation. As a facilitator, you will learn to prepare for and conduct both face-to-face and virtual facilitation sessions. You will be practicing several facilitation techniques, applying several effective facilitation practices, and learning how to manage conflict and group dynamics in a session. Most importantly, you will have the opportunity to practice these skills in a safe environment. This course It represents materials and ideas that have been tested and refined over 20 years of active facilitation in all types of settings. This course is aligned with the latest version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)™.
RESEARCH SKILLS FOR BUSINESS ANALYSTS
In this age of information overload, it can be hard to know where to find good information that you can trust. If you are researching an important project, report, or proposal, how do you find the information you can rely upon?
This one-day workshop will teach you how to research any topic using several different tools. We will start with basic techniques, such as reading, memory recall, note-taking, and planning. We will also talk about creating different kinds of outlines for different stages of your project and how to move from the design to actual writing, editing, and polishing. Most importantly, we will talk about using all kinds of sources, including a library’s Dewey Decimal System, journals, and the Internet. After you complete this course, you’ll be ready to find reliable information on any topic and turn that information into a compelling, accurate piece of writing. This course is aligned with the latest version of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)™.
BALANCED SCORECARD BASICS
Over the past several decades, organizations have realized that they cannot measure success only in dollars and cents. Intangible assets (like a company’s reputation, the knowledge base created by its employees, and training initiatives) can make up a considerable portion of its wealth. It only makes sense, then, that we need a new tool to help us measure this expanded definition of success. Enter the balanced scorecard! This tool and its related components will help your organization identify, document, plan, and execute a balanced strategic mission. It will also help your organization evaluate and revise its strategic execution. This one-day workshop will introduce you to the balanced scorecard basics and help you determine if this powerful tool is a good fit for your organization.