Business Analysis for Project Managers and IT Analysts (PMI-PBA Certification)
About This Course
This 5-day course developed exclusively by Interface Technical Training teaches the strategic and tactical roles of the Business Analysts and provides interactive coverage of the knowledge and skills necessary to master business analysis work. The course addresses Business Analysis contributions both within and external to projects consistent with the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® ) and based on the Project Management Institute’s Professional in Business Analysis credential (PMI-PBA®).
This course qualifies as 35 contact hours for PMI-PBA candidates, or 35 PDU’s for current PMI credential holders.
At Course Completion
Upon course completion, students will be able to:
- Understand Business Analysis
- Identify the role of the business analyst
- Understand the Business Development life-cycle
- Integrate business analysis within Portfolios, Programs, and Projects.
- Describe the relationship between projects and processes
- Learn the terms, tools, techniques, and deliverables associated with business analysis.
- Develop sound solution (product, service, process) design
- Understand the principles and practices for effective requirements elicitation and analysis.
- Understand Modeling techniques
- Expand knowledge of Strategic Planning and Enterprise Analysis
- Develop traceability, monitoring, and evaluation tools
- Gain a solid understanding of the five PMI-PBA domains: Needs Assessment, Planning, Analysis, Traceability & Monitoring, and Evaluation
Audience Profile
Primary audience for this course are:
- New and practicing Business Analysts
- Project Managers
- Product Managers
- System Analysts
- Quality Managers
- Managers tasked with Strategic decisions
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of business processes and/or project management
Course Outline
Introduction
Defining the role and tasks of a Business Analyst
Generating Business Value
Solutions to business needs, problems, and opportunities
Stakeholder relationships: business processes, projects and external connections
Creating and adopting formal business analysis
The Business Analyst and projects; ideal PM-BA integration
The PMI-PBA domains
Certification opportunities
Process, tool, technique, and deliverables framework
General Functions of Business Analyst
Needs Assessment and Strategic prioritization
Business Analysis planning (the day-to-day work)
Requirements Elicitation
Requirements Analysis and Specification (includes modeling)
Requirements Documentation, Validation, and Management
Business Solution Delivery, Operation, and Maintenance
Needs Assessment
Problem, opportunity, constraint and triage
Request analysis
Solution approaches and business cases
The product life-cycle
Prioritization
Approval and Funding
Project initiation
Business Planning
Business analysis Work
As-is versus to-be
Product/project life-cycle approach
Solution context and design
Stakeholder analysis
Assurance Design and Acceptance Criteria
Solution success
The Business Plan
Project initiation
Business Analysis – Elicitation
Question development
Stakeholder requirements
Elicitation
Requirements generation
Decomposition
Studying
Modeling: scope, process, data, rule
Requirements prioritization
PM/BA collaboration during Elicitation
Business Analysis - Analysis
Requirements analysis
Iterative modification and Change Control
Requirements classifications
Tools for thinking, analysis, documentation & presentation
Advanced modeling
Characteristics of Excellent Requirements
PM/BA collaboration during Analysis
Approval, Verification and Validation
Traceability and Monitoring
Requirements states
Traceability Matrices
Baselines
Conflict resolution
Facilitation
Configuration and Version control
Confirmation of solution delivery
Confirmation of business value
Status and reporting
PM/BA collaboration and contrasts
Evaluation
Testing and Test Plans
Metrics and KPI
Test cases
Gaps, deficits, Deltas, and defects
Acceptance criteria and implementation planning
PM/BA collaboration and separation
Go/No-Go analysis
Product implementation
Product Transition
Post-implementation valuation
Product life-cycle schedule
Solution Replacement/Phase-out
Project Management and Operations Interfaces
Project Management methodologies and their relationship to the Business Analyst
Methodology comparison, contrast, and overlap
Product life-cycles : Predictive/Waterfall, Iterative/Spiral, Incremental, Adaptive/Agile
Role of the PM
Role of the BA
Working with the PMO
The Business Analyst and Operations
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