Business Analysis - Requirements Discovery and Facilitation - IIBA Endorsed
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Acquiring skill for the role of business analyst (BA) in a modern software development organization is often left to "on-the-job" experience, or to chance. The BA is often a "middleman" between the customer and the IT organization who must produce solutions meeting the customer's expectations. The BA role is complex and requires skill in multiple dimensions, including: harvesting of requirements, serving as a Subject Matter Expert, satisfying business strategy defined in multiple constituencies, and communicating business process goals and process details to technical groups.
This course is a highly interactive curriculum that focuses on the role of the BA within the technical process of software development. Through numerous examples, it enables BAs to work more effectively with the IT team by teaching how to express business requirements in forms that IT can directly use. In the course exercises, the BAs learn to identify the business entities in the business domain, how to express these concepts in both visual and textual means, and how to specify the semantic relationships among those entities.
NOTE: If you are a Project Management Professional (PMP)® certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI), you can earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) by attending this IconATG course.
TOPICS COVERED:
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and organize various types of business requirements
- Explain the significance and purpose of core artifacts useful to the BA
- Express business requirements using diverse presentations including Unified Modeling Language artifacts that capture both static and dynamic views of those requirements
- Fulfill the role of mediator between the business and IT constituencies
- Ask the right questions to discover the project's requirements
AUDIENCE:
This course is designed for business analysts, systems analysts, requirements analysts, technical managers, and software developers who wish to learn techniques for successful business analysis in software development.
DURATION:
2 days
PRICE:
Please call (866) 426-6871 for details.
PREREQUISITES:
Experience in requirements gathering or systems analysis is desirable, but not mandatory.
OBJECTIVES:
Course enables students in critical skills emphasized in the the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) expressed as necessary for Business Analysts to sit for the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) certification exam in order to be a Certified Business Analysis Professional or CBAP™.