The Business Analyst (PBA) – PMI Certified
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INTRODUCTION
Professional Business Analysis is the elicitation, analysis and specification of the logical requirements from business perspectives, and is seamlessly integrated and organized around a model-driven analysis framework in order to design and build or procure effective computer-based business systems. The Project Management Institute’s Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) is one of the top certifications to validate your skill set and technical expertise as a business analyst. This credential demonstrates your knowledge and skills in business analysis, and your ability to competently use BA tools and techniques to enhance project success. This training course provides the critical thinking skills, conceptual knowledge and best practices to rapidly discover, analyze and specify business and user requirements. Participants will gain knowledge of the right approaches, tasks and techniques to define the requirements for business system projects.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:
- Understand the Role of the Business Systems Analyst, the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and How the System Scope is defined
- Understand the importance of system stakeholders and their goals
- Plan, conduct, and follow up on a structured investigative interview
- Produce a use case diagram and a detailed use case description
- Define System Actor Goals and Convert these to Use Cases
- Write Effective Business Rules
- Document Functional and Non-functional Business Requirements
- Compile the desirable contents of a Business Requirements Specification
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COURSE AUDIENCE
This course is made for:
- Business and Systems Analysts
- Enterprise Architects
- Sales and Marketing Managers
- Business Excellence Officers
- Systems Development Project Leaders
- Systems Development Team Members
- Brand Managers
- Business Owners
- Purchasing Team
- Project Managers
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COURSE OUTLINE
Day One:
Introduction to Business Analysis
- Understanding the Business Environment
- The Role of the Business Analysis within the System Development Cycle
- Alternative Approaches to Business Systems Analysis
- The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Starting a Systems Development Project
- Identifying System Users and Other Stakeholders
- Creating a Vision Statement
- Defining the System Scope
Day Two:
Modelling
- An Introduction to Systems Modelling Concepts
- Enterprise Architecture Modelling
- Normalization
- Modelling the System Context
- System Scope Modelling
- Use Case Modelling
- Modelling Information Requirements
Day Three:
Communicating Requirements
- Planning, Conducting, and Following-up a Structured Investigative Interview
- Workshops and Brainstorming
- Surveys and Questionnaires
- Document Analysis and Observation
- Interface Analysis
- Random Sampling
Day Four:
Writing Effective Use Cases
- Gathering User Stories
- Defining Actors and Actor Goals
- Converting Actor Goals to Use Cases
- Documenting Detailed Use Case Descriptions
- Refactoring Use Cases
- Maintaining the Data Dictionary
Day Five:
Developing a Business Requirements Specification
- Value of Effective Requirements
- Gathering and Writing Business Rules
- Documenting Functional and Non-functional Requirements
- Preparing the Specification
- Verifying and Validating Requirements
- Writing Test Cases
- Presenting Your Requirements Specification
