Role and importance of the BA
Vocabulary standards and business analysis practices through the use of the IIBA A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide)
Plan BA requirements activities
Elicit requirements from stakeholders, with an emphasis on interviews
Analyze stated requirements, with an overview of modeling techniques
Document requirements for different types of projects
Verify and validate requirements
Elements of requirements management and communication and the BA's role in them
Elements of solution verification and validation and possible BA roles
Enterprise analysis: choosing appropriate projects
Necessary competencies and best practices of BAs
Waterfall, incremental, and agile lifecycles and how they change BA practices
Hands-On Exercises
Identify Business Analysis Concepts and Activities in Your Organization
Review a Vision and Scope Document
Plan Requirements Activities for a Project
Conduct an Interview
Choose Elicitation Techniques
Analyze a Location Model
Analyze a Workflow Model
Analyze a Use Case Model
Analyze a CRUD Matrix
Identify Models that Answer Key Questions
Review a Requirements Document
Determine the Impact of a Proposed Change to a Requirements Set
Write a Test Case Using a Use Case
Walk Through the Steps of Enterprise Analysis for a Project
Develop a Personal Action Plan to Improve Your BA Skills or Environment
Сourse Objective:
IT Business analysis is the study of how analytical thinking, scientific method and tools can be used to help decision making. This class aims to introduce a variety of analytical methods that form the basis of analysing any business problem as well as provide students with an overview of technological change and how it affects all aspects of an organisation.
The aims of this class are:
- to raise awareness of the real world problems encountered by industry that can be solved through management science methodology
- to develop an understanding of the tools and techniques used by business analysts
- to provide students with an awareness of why and where organisations use technology
- to highlight the integrative role of technology within organisations
- to demonstrate the dynamic nature of technology
Final part of the course will introduce the students to the ideas of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis to make students aware of the importance of carefully defining objectives when intervening in business systems. Overall, the course will equip students with the qualitative and quantitative analytic skills and techniques in order to make action recommendations for performance improvements in complex business systems.
Course Main Topics:
Business Analysis Methodology Book by Emrah Yayici Paperback
The Business Analyst's Handbook by Howard Podeswa Paperback
Auxilary References:
Business Analyst's Mentor Book: With Best Practice Business Analysis Techniques and Software Requirements Management Tips (Ba-Works Inspiring) Paperback – July 22, 2013 - by Emrah Yayici