This 4-day Business Analyst training course will give you hands-on experience with the latest proven techniques for identifying a project's scope, developing and discovering requirements, user stories, and uses cases, and documenting them expertly. Lively lectures combined with insightful demonstrations and realistic practice exercises will provide you with the competence and confidence to improve project outcomes through better requirements elicitation and requirements development. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the challenges faced in defining correct requirements, practical approaches for eliciting and documenting requirements, and strategies for managing requirements throughout the project life cycle. If you play a role in defining project scope, capturing requirements, or managing project scope, you can't afford to miss this course!
Practical and realistic hands-on exercises and activities allow you to refine and enhance your problem definition, communication skills, and problem solving skills. Through group effort, you and your peers will discuss ways your department or company should be handling problems up front and how you can improve the early, critical stages of a project. You and your peers will identify and discuss strategies and tactics that your organization should be using to better define project scope, discover requirements, and document various types of requirements.
Specifically, you will:
- Identify the essential skills of a Business Analyst
- Analyze the business environment in which your project occurs
- Improve your requirements elicitation, development, and documentation
- Enhance business analysis techniques to reduce project cost
- Practice eliciting and validating information from project stakeholders
- Develop business model components such as a context diagram, activity diagram, and use case model
- Work as a team to analyze business artifacts and documents to discover the functional requirements needed
- Practice writing user stories and acceptance criteria
- Produce well written use case diagrams and narratives
- Generate a plan for bringing these methods back to your organization
This course is perfect for you if you are a(n)…
- Business customer, user or partner
- Business Analyst
- Business Systems Analyst
- Systems Analyst
- Project Manager or Team Leader
- Systems Architect or Designer
- IT Manager/Director
- Systems or Application Developer
- QA Professional
- Systems Tester
- Anyone wanting to enhance their business analysis skills