Business Analysis for IT Professionals (BA-IT)

This course is designed for new Business Analysts, experienced Business Analysts looking to update their skills and understanding of their role, Project Managers who incorporate business analysis roles in their projects and Managers that have Business Analysts on their staff.

At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Describe the relation between projects and processes
• Describe three major project development methodologies
• Discuss the basics of enterprise analysis and its impact on project selection
• Learn the communications processes and how they can impact project requirements
• Determine each participant’s communications style (BEST profile) and how that understanding can help in eliciting requirements
• Gather and document user requirements using the following techniques
• Modeling the business
• Fundamentals of Process Modeling
• Requirements validation through Data Modeling
• Testing fundamentals and quality assurance

Topics

• Overview
• Requirements Gathering
• Modeling
• Fundamentals of Testing
• Templates
• Practical Application Sessions