Business Analysis Boot Camp for Groups

Course Length: 4 days

CDU/PDU: Earn 28 CDU/PDU for both IIBA and PMI certification

Prerequisites: Some experience with Business Analysis will be helpful, but it is not required.

What We Cover

Business Analysis Boot Camp Objectives

• Identify the roles and responsibilities of the Business Analyst

• Compare the BA role to other project roles

• Understand how business analysis works in both IT and business environments

• Understand the benefits and value of Business Analysis

• Understand the competencies of a Business Analyst

• Understand the high-level process of Business Analysis

• Understand general expectation of the Business Analyst role

Business Analysis Boot Camp Course Topics

• Introduction to Business Analysis

• Key business analysis terms, activities and general overview of business analysis

• Key business analysis activities, deliverables and techniques

• The breadth of business analysis from the business to IT projects

• Benefits of Business Analysis

• Barriers to Business Analysis

• BA Competencies

• BA Career Path

• Requirements defined and their classifications

• Methodologies/approaches to business analysis

• Comparing business analysis to other roles and where they overlap

• Trends in business analysis

• Overview of the IIBA BABOK and how it relates to Business Analysis and your training

• A high-level understanding of requirements, business rules, process, data, interfaces, interactions, scope

Business Analysis Scope and Elicitation Objectives

• Understand solution and product scope are and why they are needed for solutions

• Understand and practice Business Analysis scope modeling

• Learn and practice several elicitation techniques

• Understand the process for elicitation

• Learn what techniques work better in certain situations

• Understand team dynamics and how it plays a part in elicitation

Business Analysis Scope and Elicitation Course Topics

• Understanding the differences of project and product scope

• The process of solution scoping

• Several techniques and models for solution scoping

• Breaking down the scope to drive elicitation efforts

• The process of elicitation

• Elicitation in different approaches – Agile, Waterfall, Incremental

• The role team dynamics play in elicitation

• Learn 17 elicitation techniques

• Practice elicitation techniques and understand how they support future business analysis efforts

• When to use each technique and why

Analyzing Requirements Objectives

• Understand the importance of modeling and analyzing requirements

• Understand and practice different types of modeling including: process, data, interface and interaction

• Learn when and why to model

• Understand impacts to modeling based on stakeholder preferences and needs

• Understand progressive elaboration of requirements and what the right level of detail to model is

Analyzing Requirements Course Topics

• Process modeling (Process Maps, Swim Lanes)

• Data modeling (Data Matrix, ERD, Class Diagram, Data Mining)

• Interface modeling (Prototypes, Mockups, Wireframes, Storyboards)

• Interaction modeling (Use Cases, SIPOC)

• Business rules analysis in modeling

• Tying models back to scope modeling

• Levels of detail and abstraction in modeling

• Modeling based on approach (Agile, Waterfall, Incremental)

Business Analysis Supporting and Managing Requirements Objectives

• Understand the different ways to document requirements

• Practice writing well-formed requirements

• Understand how to package requirements for review by stakeholders

• Understand and practice different methods of requirements prioritization (Waterfall, Incremental, Agile)

• Understand and practice requirements traceability

• Understand the Business Analyst role in design

• Understand the role of the Business Analyst during the implementation of the solution

• Understand the role of the Business Analyst after the solution has been implemented

Business Analysis Supporting and Managing Requirements Course Topics

• How to package your requirements effectively

• Understanding your stakeholder preferences in packaging requirements

• How to present different components of the requirements

• How to write well-formed requirements

• How to correct requirements

• Developing a requirements check list

• What goes into a business requirements document

• Creating a traceability matrix

• Tracing requirements to business goals and objectives, test, design, scope

• The Business Analyst role in design

• How to manage requirements change

Business Analysis Planning and Estimating Objectives

• Understand project vs. product (solution) scope

• Document product (solution) scope in support of planning and estimating your Business Analysis work

• Understand common Business Analysis approaches

• Learn different approaches to estimating your Business Analysis work

• Learn to communicate and manage your requirements work plan

Business Analysis Planning and Estimating Course Topics

• Project vs. product (solution) scope

• Documenting product (solution) scope as the input to your planning efforts

• Key planning concepts for analyzing Business Analysis work

• Understanding gap analysis

• Predictive (Waterfall, incremental) and Adaptive (Agile) approaches to planning Business Analysis work

• How to plan the work and work the plan

• How to develop the approach to your plan

• Understanding complexity and impacts for your plan

• How to choose techniques for your plan

• How to choose activities and deliverables for your plan

• How to communicate your plan

• Understand various estimation techniques

• Review examples of requirements work plans

• Understand how the requirements work plan fits into the overall project plan

• Understand additional change management needs of the plan