Course Description: This 4-day Business Analyst training course will
give you hands-on experience with the latest proven techniques for
identifying a project’s scope, developing and discovering
requirements and uses cases, and documenting them expertly. Lively
lectures combined with insightful demonstrations and realistic
practice exercises will provide you with the competence and confidence
to improve project outcomes through better requirements elicitation
and use case development. You’ll gain a thorough understanding of
the challenges faced in defining correct requirements, practical
approaches for eliciting and documenting requirements, and strategies
for managing requirements throughout the project life cycle. If you
play a role in defining project scope, capturing requirements, or
managing project scope, you can’t afford to miss this course! Day 1
1. Introduction 2. The BA Profession 3. The Business Case for
Requirements Engineering 4. Foundations of Requirements Engineering
Day 2 1. Project Initiation 2. Eliciting High-level and Mid-level
Requirements 3. Scope Modeling Day 3 1. Eliciting Detailed
Requirements 2. Documenting Requirements with Use Cases 3. Improving
Use Case Quality 4. Improving Requirements Quality Day 4 1. Creating
the Solution Requirements Documentation 2. Requirements Communication
and Management 3. Review The Business Analysis Profession ● IIBA®
and the BABOK® ● What is Business Analysis ● Business and
Solution Domains—how they relat ● Key roles in requirements
developmen ● The competencies of the Business Analys ●
Distinguishing novice and expert Business Analyst ● Effective
communication ● Six important BA skill ● Practice session The
Business Case for Good Requirement ● What is a good requirement? ●
Requirements attributes—who needs them? ● Key practices that
promote excellent requirements ● The cost of requirements errors ●
Requirements engineering overview ● Practice sessions Foundations of
Requirements Development ● Key terms in requirements development ●
A strategy for analyzing systems ● Common requirement-classification
schemes ● The three parts of a system ● Levels and types of
requirements ● The importance of traceability ● Understanding the
business context of projects ● Practice sessions Project Initiation:
Eliciting High-level and Mid-level Requirements ● Understanding
product vision and project scope ● Identifying and describing
project stakeholders ● Modeling the business ● Identifying systems
and actors ● Determining scope ● Understanding and identifying use
cases ● Taking the Agile approach: writing user stories ●
Identifying and defining data ● Documenting business rules ●
Finding quality attributes ● Practice sessions Improving
Requirements Quality ● Requirements quality ● Common problems with
requirements ● Analyze for ambiguity ● Requirements inspection,
analysis and improvement ● Defining and documenting the project
scope ● Practice sessions Eliciting Detailed Requirements ●
Overview of requirements-elicitation techniques ● Decompose
processes to lowest levels ● Document analysis ● Modeling
processes to generate interview questions ● Interviewing the
stakeholders ● Documenting the interview and resulting requirements
● Adding detail to requirements we already have ● Refine and
rewrite for clarity ● Practice sessions Documenting Requirements
with Use Cases ● Use case basics ● Ways to identify use cases ●
Use cases and requirements ● Usage narrative ● Anatomy of a fully
dressed use case ● Writing effective use case narratives ●
Understanding sub-use cases ● Linking use cases for larger or more
complex systems ● Use case quality ● Avoiding common traps and
pitfalls ● Practice sessions Packaging and Presenting Requirements
● Organizing and packaging requirements ● Presenting requirements
for review ● Baselining the requirements ● Getting to consensus
and approval ● Conduct formal and informal reviews ● Documenting
requirements in a Requirements Specification ● Practice sessions
Learning Objectives: Individuals certified at this level will have
demonstrated their understanding of: ● Bridge the expectations gap
between business stakeholders and technology solution providers ●
Enhance business analysis techniques to reduce project cost ●
Implement practical methods for understanding user requirements ●
Improve your requirements elicitation, development and documentation
● Understand and describe the business environment in which a
project exists ● Explore proven tactics for managing project scope
● Focus on discovering root causes, not just symptoms ● Gain tools
and techniques for developing more precise requirements ● Practice
state-of-the-art business and system modeling techniques ● Organize
and categorize project requirements ● Quickly identify accurate use
cases for new or enhanced business systems ● Produce high-quality,
readable use case documentation ● Avoid common use case traps and
pitfalls ● Overcome real-world challenges that confront today’s
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Boise, Idaho, United States
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