BA30 

Foundation of Business Analysis 

LEVEL 
Basic / Intermediate

COURSE LENGTH 
4 Days

CREDITS
28 PDUs 

Course Description

Why do more than 50% of the IT projects fail to achieve the original objectives for which the project had started? Why are there so many project “re-starts”?  There are several key challenges organizations face in translating user needs into systems specifications. 

Successful projects are built on the foundation of well-written requirements. This course provides the techniques to help Business Analysts write well-formed, testable, verifiable user requirements that translate client needs into clear and testable solutions. These requirements ensure the business and stakeholder needs are implemented correctly in the final product.

Learning Objectives:

Throughout the course, students work together in small groups on a pre-determined project.  Each exercise allows the students to apply what they’ve learned throughout the course.

  • Define business objectives

  • Perform stakeholder analysis

  • Elicit requirements using multiple techniques

  • Create a business process model using BPMN

  • Write User Stories and Use Cases to capture functional requirements

  • Analyze requirements using several modeling techniques

  • Verify and validate requirements

  • Organize, prioritize, and allocate requirements for clarity

  • Manage changes to requirements