ECI – EMSP Business Analyst Course
Course Description
This course instructs on the role and responsibilities of the EMS Business Analyst. Learn techniques for ensuring project success every step of the way – from identifying and analyzing potential projects to making sure that the final project meets the requirements you identified. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll learn to define the scope of work and master requirements – gathering techniques that will work for a variety of projects and audiences. You’ll consider the unique needs of customers, stakeholders, and the IT department as you work toward building, documenting, communicating, and managing requirements.
What You’ll Learn in Class
- Role of the business analyst
- Build and evaluate a business case
- Plan, manage, analyze, document, and communicate requirements
- Conduct effective interviews, group workshops and questionnaires
- Data mining
- Effectively capture and document business rules
- Get agreement
- Ensure requirements are met
Hands-On Exercises
- Identify Business Analysis (BA) Concepts and Activities in Your Organization
- Propose Project Scope Based on Your Analysis of a Business Architecture, Feasibility Study, and Risk Assessment
- Define Team Roles and Word Division Strategy
- Plan Requirements Activities for a Project
- Plan Scope and Requirements Change Management
- Choose Elicitation Techniques
- Choose Techniques to Structure, Model, and Analyze Requirements
- Identify Project Assumptions and Constraints
- Determine Requirements Verification and Validation Activities
- Draft a Requirements Communication Plan
- Prepare for Requirements Presentation and Sign-off
- Determine Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
- Compile an Individual Professional Skills Inventory
- Produce an Individual Professional Growth Plan
Who Needs to Attend
System analysts, business analysts, requirements analysts, developers, software engineers, IT project managers, project managers, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, program managers, testers, and QA specialists.
Course Content
- Overview of Business Analysis
- The solutions life cycle
- What is business analysis?
- Business analysis terminology
- International institute of Business Analysis
- Enterprise Analysis
- Introduction
- Definitions
- The business architecture
- Feasibility studies
- Project scope
- Business Case
- Risk assessment
- Decision package
- Selecting and prioritizing projects
- Requirements Planning and Management
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Team roles for the project
- Work division strategy
- Requirements risk approach
- Planning Considerations
- Requirements activities
Selection
Estimation
- Requirements scope
- Requirements activity
Measurement
Reporting
- Requirements change management
- Requirements Elicitation
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Elicit requirements
- Techniques
Brainstorming
Document analysis
Focus groups
Interface analysis
Interviews
Observation
Prototyping
Workshop
Reverse engineering
Survey/questionnaire
- Requirements analysis and documentation
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Requirements package
- Business domain model
- Analyze user requirements
- Analyze functional requirements
- Analyze quality of service requirements
- Assumptions and constraints
- Requirements
Attributes
Document
Validate
Verify
- Modeling techniques
Data and behavior models
Process/flow models
Usage models
- Requirements Communication
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Communication plan
- Manage conflicts
- Determine format
- Requirements package
- Requirements presentation
- Requirements review
- Requirements sign-off
- Solution Assessment and Validation
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Solution alternatives
- Technology options
- Solution selection
- Solution usability
- Quality assurance
- Solution implementation
- Solution impacts
- Post implementation review
- BA Fundamentals
Communication skills
Leadership skills
Problem-solving skills
Business knowledge
IT knowledge
Case studies
Exercises