Course Description

COURSE OVERVIEW: Business Analysts provide an essential function by assessing and analyzing the business environment, defining the scope of business problems, capturing project requirements, designing high-value solution approaches, and ensuring that the defined project scope meets stakeholder needs, objectives and expectations. The Essentials of Business Analysis training course is designed to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the benefits, functions and impact a business analyst has within an organization

COURSE OBJECTIVES

AT THE END OF THIS COURSE THE DELEGATES WOULD BE ABLE TO:

• Define the Business Analyst profession and its characteristics
• Identify requirements from the business perspective and depict project scope
• Bridge the communication gap between various stakeholders
• Clearly document and communicate the scope of projects
• Target analysis and understand consequences of solutions

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Team leaders Managers, Line Managers, Senior Managers

COURSE CONTENT

• The rationale for business analysis
• The development of business analysis
• The scope of business analysis
• The responsibilities of a business analyst
• Stakeholder analysis and management
• The three most important communication and collaboration skills for business analysis
• Requirements analysis and validating information
• Facilitation with stakeholders
• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Leadership, team working, and influencing
• Defining solution scope and analyzing symptoms and causes
• Identifying and defining the problem: Project scope vs. product scope
• Defining a problem statement
• Developing solutions and solution evaluation defined
• Strategy analysis defined
• The role of the Business Analyst in strategy analysis
• Describing the business environment
• Describing the requirements scope
• The definition of Strategy Analysis
• Components of Strategy Analysis
• Identifying stakeholders and business needs
• Modeling the desired state

Delivery method: This will include combine lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will also understand the theoretical and practical knowledge of the topic.

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Duration: 1 week

Course Date: Aug 7th -11th 2023