Business Analysis

Course objectives

Gaining knowledge of business analysis and understanding the character and responsibility of business analyst. Gaining skills in sourcing and documenting requirements and managing their life cycle.

Benefits

At the end of this course participants will gain:

• Knowledge of the business analyst’s role in the project life cycle
• Knowledge of the main concepts related to business analysis
• Skills in eliciting and documenting requirements
• Ability to prioritize requirements
• Knowledge of stakeholder management and relationship building
• Knowledge of basic principles and techniques of effective requirements management in Agile methodologies

Training scope

• Business analysis
  • Important terms and definitions
  • The role and tasks of a business analyst
• Agile requirements management
  • Genesis of agile methodologies (Agile)
  • Agile manifests
  • The difference between Agile and Waterfall (the cascading model)
  • Scrum basics
• Requirements elicitation
  • Types of requirements
  • Sources of requirements
  • Requirements elicitation techniques
• Documenting Requirements in Natural Language
  • Creating a Dictionary
  • Documenting Requirements in Natural Language
  • User Story
• Documenting Requirements Using Models
  • Purpose of Requirements Modeling
  • Features of a good model
  • Goal models
  • Use Case Modeling
  • Data models
  • Process models
• Prioritization of requirements
  • Prioritization Principles
  • Prioritization techniques

Audience

All people who want to be professional business analysts; also active business analysts, members of a project teams and everybody who cooperate with business analysts on a daily basis.