Credits: 14 PDUs / 2 Days

Course Level: Intermediate/Advance

Prerequisites:
This course is aimed for experienced people who require a clear understanding and systematic approach to Strategic Enterprise Business Analysis. It is recommended that participants complete the BA01 – Business Analysis Essentials course prior to enrolling or have equivalent experience.

Course Objectives:
Learn enterprise analysis skills and support your enterprise solutions with effective consulting and leadership. Learn how to move enterprise projects and strategies forward from both a consulting and Enterprise Analysis perspective. Use Enterprise Analysis techniques to identify profitable enterprise opportunities. Learn how to package and present a compelling rationale for your enterprise solution and develop your consulting skills to get buy-in from senior management.

Intended Audience:
Executives, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business and IT stakeholders working with analysts

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to see the “big picture” and help your executive stakeholders make the right decisions
• Evaluate proposed business initiatives for viability and organizational advantage
• Apply an enterprise analysis framework in a business case study
• Identify the organizational opportunities and risks within proposed initiatives
• Conduct a feasibility analysis and strategic fit assessment
• Define initial scope for a potential solution using multiple visual techniques
• Prepare a business case employing qualitative and quantitative analysis methods

Course Outline:

Section 1: Introduction

•  What is Enterprise Analysis?
• The role of an Enterprise Analysis
• Business Analysis competencies

Section 2: Defining the business need

• Defining solution vision and scope
• Conducting a outcomes workshop
• Validating solution scope against the expected outcomes

Section 3: Assessing the capabilities of your organization

• Analyzing current capabilities
• Assessing new capability requirements

Section 4: Determining how to approach potential solutions

• Describe the approach to create or acquire new capabilities
• Ranking potential approaches
• Conducting a feasibility analysis

Section 5: Defining the scope of the solutions being proposed

• Define the capabilities a project shall deliver
• Scope modeling
• User stories

Section 6: Assessing the risks involved

• Understanding the risks of the proposed solution
• Capturing and categorizing the risks involved
• Planning the appropriate responses to the risks identified

Section 7: Justifying the Enterprise Solution: The Business Case

• Building a convincing business case and justifying the investment
• Planning stakeholder buy-in
• Communicating with your audience
• Identifying critical decision criteria and objectives
• How to package and present your case for maximum impact
• Anticipating and responding to challenges

Section 8: Additional resources

• Useful books and  links on Enterprise Analysis

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BA02-Strategic Enterprise Analysis – 2 days