From enterprise analysis and scope definition to requirements determination and conceptual design, the Fast Start® in Business Analysis workshop gives analysts a thorough understanding of the entire Systems Development Life Cycle. Replete with both “hard” and “soft” skills, this three-day course builds a sound strategy for analyzing business processes and demonstrates how to apply concepts and practical techniques within the context of an experiential learning environment. Students emerge from this workshop with a solid foundation of business analysis thinking as well as a greater understanding that doing the right things is just as important as doing things right. PDUs = 24.
Audience:
Those who need to learn practical system thinking: business systems analysts, managers, information technology professionals, or other business professionals.
Prerequisites
None
Course duration:
3 days
Course outline:
1. Introduction
- Defining Business Analysis
- What is Business Analysis?
- What is a Business Analyst?
- (IIBA) Business Analysis Body of
Knowledge (BABOK)
- Today’s Approach to Business Analysis
- The Systems Development Life Cycle
- Fast Start in Business Analysis Road
Map
- Workshop Agenda
- Getting the Most from This Workshop
- Workshop Logisitics
2. Enterprise Analysis
- What is Enterprise Analysis?
- What Has Changed?
- What Information Should We Gather for
Enterprise Analysis?
- How Should We Collect This
Information?
- Types of Information to Collect
- Sources of Information
- How Does Enterprise Analysis Help the
Project?
- Real-World Application
3. Defining the Project Scope
- An Approach to Project Definition
- Step One – Identify Issues
- Uses for Issues
- Step Two – Recognize Future Benefits
- Step Three – Identify the Stakeholders
and Sponsor
- Stakeholder
- The Project Sponsor
- Step Four – Diagram the Functional
Flow
- Step Five – Define the Project
Objectives and Scope
- Scope Exclusions
- Real-World Applications
4. Procedure Analysis
- Preparing for Analysis
- What Information Should We Gather to
Analyze?
- Why Perform Procedure Analysis?
- Definitions
- Performing Procedure Analysis
- Process Flow Modeling
- Why Create Models?
- Symbols Used in Process Flow Models
- Swim Lane Diagram
- Guidelines for Creating Swim Lane
- Diagrams
- Process Scripts
- Old Procedure
- Process Script Procedure
- Real-World Application
5. Interviewing
- Why Interview?
- Preparing for the Interview
- Interview Structure
- Questioning and Listening Techniques
- Listening for Requirements
- Holding the Interview
- Real-World Application
6. Requirements, Assumptions, and
Constraints
- Effective Requirements Practices
- Requirements
- Types of Requirements
- SMART Requirements
- Identifying User Requirements
- Assumptions and Constraints
- Real-World Application
7. Defining a Solution
- Solution Definition
- System Improvement
- System Redesign
- Review Project Scope
- Future State Changes
- Process Improvement
- Process Change
- Systems Development
- Systems Change
- Organization Change
- Impact Analysis
- Process Improvement Impact
- Systems Development Impact
- Organization Change Impact
- Real-World Application
8. Solution Implementation Planning
- Systems Development Life Cycle
Review
- Phases for Implementation Planning
- Planning to Implement the Future
Changes
- Visualizing the Project Schedule for
Implementing the Solution
- Step 1 – Break the Project Down into
Tasks
- Step 2 – Sequence the Tasks
- Step 3 – Estimate Time
- Step 4 – Assign Resources
- Step 5 – Chart the Plan
- Real-World Application
9. Management Presentation
- Business Case
- What’s in this Management
Presentation?
- Presentations
- Rehearsal and Practice Run
- Real-World Application
