Fundamentals of Business Analysis Workshop

Course Overview

The Fundamentals of Business Analysis workshop consists of a variety of demonstrations, simulations, hands-on activities and team exercises, enabling delegates to refine and enhance their problem definition, communication and problem solving skills.  The delegates will identify and discuss strategies and tactics that their Organisations should be using to better define project scope and to discover, document and communicate requirements.

At the completion of the course, participants will learn how to:

• Target analysis and understand the consequences of a solution’s options

• Understand requirements from the business perspective

• Understand and describe the business environment in which a project exists

• Assess the feasibility of a project

• Describe the goals and objectives of a project

• Gather required information through multiple methods

• Ask targeted questions to discover root causes, not just symptoms

• Capture and verify business requirements

• Organise and categorize project requirements

• Present requirements and solutions to business stakeholders

• Bridge the communication gap between business stakeholders and technology solution providers

Course Content

Business Analysis Overview

BA Responsibilities

Communications; - Information distribution,  Communications styles

Documentation strategy

Requirements Gathering and Analysis

Levels of requirements on a project

Identifying needs vs. wants

Techniques for gathering requirements

Interviewing, Prototyping, Use Cases, Collaborative Workshops, Work Breakdown Structure, Business Process Analysis, Use Cases,

Ranking requirements

Modeling; - Solutions Assessment & Validation

Business Process Analysis ;- Business Process Improvements (BPI), Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

Data Modeling ;- Fundamentals, Entity Relationship Diagrams

Fundamentals of testing

Testing strategy

Ensure project quality and quality of the product

Test scripts

Practical Application Sessions

Determine your own Communication Style

Interview a project sponsor

Develop Use Cases and a Use Case Diagram

Gather requirements while developing a Work Breakdown Structure

Create a Business Process model

Design and facilitate a Requirements-Gathering session

Develop a high-level Requirements Document

Develop an Entity Relationship Diagram

Create a Project Test Plan

Target Audience

Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Systems Analyst, Project Manager, Systems Architect or Designer, IT Manager, Systems or Application Developer, QA Professional, Systems Tester, Leader of Systems projects or teams, Anyone wishing to enhance their business analysis skills

Duration: 3 days

Dates: May 9-11th, October 5-7th

Fee:  N 120,000(Exclusive of VAT)

Please note that the course fee is exclusive of VAT