Description
Business Analysts are increasingly required to extend themselves beyond their traditional role of developing and maintaining IT systems. They need the capability to understand the business strategy, use proven techniques to analyse the business area, and identify changes to business processes needed to meet internal and external challenges.
This course develops the skills needed to work with senior business and IT staff to analyse and model business activities. Delegates will learn how to investigate business problems, and how to identify and recommend appropriate creative solutions.
After the course delegates may sit an examination to attain the ISEB Business Systems Development Certificate in Business Analysis Essentials. (These delegates should also book on course code BAEEX-2 and pay for their exam separately). This course may be taken as part of the programme leading to the ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis.
The ISEB Certificate in Business Analysis Essentials fully interactive webinar series will consist of six modules, usually over two or three weeks.
Course Content
Please note:
•Each module serves as the prerequisite for the next and all are designed to be completed in order, with the same group of participants.
•All modules include pre-course work consisting of self-study reading and assignments.
Module 1
•Introduction - This module will provide the introduction to the course, instructor and participants.
•Rationale - This module sets the scene by looking at the role and responsibilities of the business analyst, together with a model of the required activities and approach.
Module 2
•Strategic Analysis in Context - This module will explain the elements of strategic analysis, including identifying the business domain and how to review it using internally and externally oriented analysis techniques.
Module 3
•Project Discipline for Business Analysis Studies - This module will describe the steps necessary to start up a business analysis study, together with the deliverables to be produced.
•Understanding the Situation / Issues - This module will cover the initial analysis of the business area, including the identification of stakeholders, the investigative techniques that can be used (in overview), and methods for representing the current business situation.
Module 4
•Business Perspectives - This module will introduce the concepts of business perspectives and their part in Business Activity Modelling.
•Analysing and Modelling Business Activities - This module will provide a practical method for modelling a conceptual view of a business in terms of the activities and dependencies, recognising the business events that drive them and encompassing the business rules.
Module 5
•Identifying Potential Solutions - This module will cover the analysis of the gap between the current and the ideal systems, the definition of the new business model, and the derivation of IS/IT requirements to support that model
•Making the Business Case - This module will enable you to prepare and present a Business Case requirements to support that model
•Accepting the Business Case - This module will enable you to prepare and present a Business Case.
Module 6
•Course review and Review Sample Exam
Case Study
•A case study allows the delegates to undertake a simulated requirements engineering assignment to practise the new skills.