Course Description:
This program provides participants with concepts and approaches for
developing a partnership between the Project Manager and Business
Analyst roles. Referencing specific challenges within their own
context, the course provides methods to build a synergetic,
functionally harmonious relationship that maximizes the business value
these roles produce for the organization.
Course Outline :
Course Introduction
* Module 1: Challenges related to project management and business
analysis
* Module 2: Enterprise analysis, portfolio management and the PMO
* Module 3: Communication, stakeholder expectations management
* Module 4: Requirements definition
* Module 5: Assumptions, constraints, dependencies and Risks
* Module 6: Resource Management
* Module 7: Building a Partnership: Integration and shared
responsibility throughout the project
Target Audience:
* Business Analysts
* Project Managers
* Program Managers
* Project Sponsors
* Hybrid PM/BAs
* PM/BA Managers
* Subject Matter Experts
LEARNING OBJECTIVES :
* Divide and identify the roles of the Project Manager and Business
Analyst, addressing multiple touch point areas, such as risks,
assumptions, constraints, dependencies, communication, stakeholder
relationship and expectations management, managing organizational
priorities, requirements and scope, strategic alignment, resource
management and estimating, processes and documentation.
* Develop a practical approach to address the intersections between
the PM and BA roles and the ability to maximize each role's
contribution by articulating the handover points between the roles of
the Project Manager and Business Analyst.
* Integrate activities, set up the boundaries, and lists activities
that must be performed harmoniously between the Project Manager and
Business Analyst roles, in logical order, to ensure project and
organizational benefits are realized and maximized.
* Illustrate the flow of work and responsibilities between the
Project Manager and Business Analyst through both the project
lifecycle and product lifecycles.
* Determine and apply the levels of respective involvement the
Project Manager and theBusiness Analyst should have in project
activities and the timing of their focus and touch points.
* Incorporate a series of early project activities - with focus on
initiation and early planning activities - to gain more control over
the project outcome and success.
* Understand and perform collaboration techniques to improve
resource allocation in the project and throughout the organization and
to streamline the transition between the product requirements and the
project scope.
COURSE AGENDA :
DAY 1
* Course Introduction
* Challenges related to project management and business analysis
* Enterprise analysis, portfolio management and the PMO
DAY 2
* Communication, stakeholder expectations management
* Requirements definition
* Assumptions, constraints, dependencies and Risks
DAY 3
* Resource Management
* Building a Partnership: Integration and shared responsibility
throughout the project
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