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BA 402 – Seminar for Business Analysis Professionals

Duration: 3 – 5 days

The seminar consists of an introduction to the Business Analyst function and demonstrates how and where this role fits into the business and IT communities. It includes some project management techniques for business analysts, communication skills, requirements elicitation, and documentation with supporting meeting agendas, scripts and templates.

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The seminar consists of an introduction to the Business Analyst function and demonstrates how and where this role fits into the business and IT communities. It includes some project management techniques for business analysts, communication skills, requirements elicitation, and documentation with supporting meeting agendas, scripts, and templates. The seminar provides practical experience and case studies for learning to function as a business analyst in any organization.

Objectives

  • Develop skills in the business analysis function for any project
  • Provide an understanding of the process, techniques, principles, terminology and concepts of business analysis
  • Provide practical group and individual exercises for functioning as a business analyst
  • Simulate the business analyst role through case study development and interactive student participation with the instructor

Seminar Content

  • Introduction
  • Overview of Business Analysis
  • Project Management for Business Analysis
    • Managing project scope
    • Role of business analysis in project management
    • Risk analysis and the business analyst
  • Planning the Business Analysis Activities
    • Identifying sources of data and process requirements
    • Collecting, organizing and managing business analyst documentation
    • Analysis tools and techniques
    • Building the business analyst’s activities’ plan
  • Key Principles and Concepts in Requirements Management
    • Effective versus poor requirements at various levels
    • The types of requirements and their places in the development process
    • Advantages and disadvantages of discovery technique and methods for using them on a project
  • Gathering and Structuring Requirements
    • Techniques used to gather and structure types of requirements
      • Interviews
      • Questionnaires
      • Workgroup / JAD sessions
      • Surveys and observations
    • Use cases as a method for gathering and documenting requirements
  • Communication and the Business Analyst
    • Essentials of business analysis communication
    • Understanding stakeholders’ positions and requirements
    • Facilitating fundamentals
      • Joint Application Development (JAD) session development
      • Agendas, scripts, templates, and facilitation techniques for requirements meetings and focus groups
  • Managing Requirements
    • Requirements management process overview
    • Reviews, validation and verification of requirements
  • Additional Information Used in Business Analysis
    • Metadata and its role in information systems
    • Storage and access to metadata
    • Repositories and their strengths and limitations
    • Introduction to business rules and their documentation
  • Documenting User Requirements
    • Developing appropriate documentation for various user and technical functions
    • Using requirements for informative communication throughout the project’s lifecycle
    • Transforming requirements into specifications
      • Differences between requirements and specifications
      • Techniques for transformation and use as foundation for application development
  • Supporting the Process
    • Change management
    • Maintenance and enhancement of requirements
    • Role of business analysis in change management and support
  • Workshop Summary
    • Conclusion, advanced exercises, resources for further study

About the Course Designer

This training was designed by David Marco, PhD, an internationally recognized authority on data and AI governance, to help teams succeed in real organizational conditions. The curriculum equips participants with practical judgment, shared language, and decision clarity that hold under scale, risk, and executive accountability.

David Marco PHD EWSolutions

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