Business Analyst Essentials Course offered by New Horizons Ireland Dublin is designed to provide participants a basic understanding of functions and impact of business analyst at organization.

Business Analyst Essentials Course
Length Days: 2.00

Length Hours: 16

Course Outline:

Introduction to Business Analysis
Business analysis defined
The activities that comprise business analysis
IIBA/PMI and the goals of a professional association
IIBA’s BABOK Guide and PMI’s Practice Guide in Business Analysis
Exercise: Requirements challenges

The IIBA and the role of the Business Analyst
Business analyst defined
BA role vs. PM role
Importance of communication/collaboration
The deliverables produced as part of business analysis
The BA career path
Exercise: Review case Study

Strategy Analysis and Change
The definition of Strategy Analysis
Components of Strategy Analysis
Identifying stakeholders and business needs
Exercises: Business Need development and RACI Stakeholder Identification

Understanding and Defining Solution Scope
Defining Solution Scope
Project scope vs. product scope
Defining a problem statement
Techniques for defining scope
Exercises: Conduct a brainwriting session and create a context diagram
Optional exercise: Create a Use Case Diagram

Understanding Requirements
Define the term requirement
Understand requirement types
Present the requirements process
Requirements vs. specifications and business rules
Exercise: Identify Requirements

Planning & Eliciting Requirements
The Requirements Work Plan (RWP)
Components of the RWP
Identifying good questions for elicitation
Active listening
Categories and types of elicitation techniques
Exercise: Planning for elicitation

Analzying & Documenting Requirements
Understanding requirements analysis
The Business Requirements Document (BRD)
The BRD vs. the functional requirements specification
BRD components
The purpose of packaging requirements
Exercise: Analyzing Requirements

Elicitation & Process Modeling

Why models are created
Objectives of modeling
What is process management
Understanding process modeling
Modeling using BPMN
AS-IS vs. TO-BE modeling
BPMN subclasses
BPMN simple structure
Prototyping
Business Process Modeling case study
Exercises: Modeling and create a Prototype of your application

Verifying & Validating Requirements
The difference between validation and verification
Characteristics of good requirements
Risks associated with requirements
Types of testing approaches
Creating a test plan
Requirements traceability matrix
Verified and validated requirements
Exercise: Testing Requirements

Additional Resources
Helpful links for obtaining additional business analysis information

Address:
New Horizons Ireland
Strand House, 22-24 Strand Street Great,
Dublin 1